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Contents
What Is the World? | 3 |
How Is It Built? | 24 |
How Should We Think About It? | 32 |
them | 36 |
The Sky Is a Machine | 54 |
less than half of the sphere would be visible at night | 60 |
The Christian Cosmos | 78 |
What Are These Things I See? | 95 |
A World of Bronze and Marble | 243 |
The shadow of a needle in monochromatic light from | 262 |
of a magnetic field by an electric current | 272 |
Two Theories of Relativity | 275 |
Very Small and Far Away | 305 |
Does It Make Sense? | 334 |
Moving Down the Scale | 352 |
And Now the Universe | 372 |
The Wider Shores of Knowledge | 109 |
Illumination | 124 |
The Spheres Are Broken | 142 |
CHAPTER IO Influences | 170 |
Velocities at the apsides of a planetary orbit | 177 |
They Move According to Number | 202 |
Time Space and Form | 224 |
Order and Law | 387 |
NOTE A Heros Principle | 407 |
NOTE J The TwoSlit Experiment in Quantum | 420 |
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