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Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph A Personal Note to the Reader BOOK ONE: TIME PART I: THE HEAVENLY EMPIRE 1. The Temptations of the Moon 2. The Week: Gateway to Science 3. God and the Astrologers PART II: FROM SUN TIME TO CLOCK TIME 4. Measuring the Dark Hours 5. The Rise of the Equal Hour 6. Making Time Portable PART III: THE MISSIONARY CLOCK 7. Open Sesame to China 8. Mother of Machines 9. Why It Happened in the West BOOK TWO: THE EARTH AND THE SEAS PART IV: THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE IMAGINATION 10. The Awe of Mountains 11. Charting Heaven and Hell 12. The Appeal of Symmetry 13. The Prison of Christian Dogma 14. A Flat Earth Returns PART V: PATHS TO THE EAST 15. Pilgrims and Crusaders 16. How the Mongols Opened the Way 17. Missionary Diplomats 18. The Discovery of Asia 19. The Land Curtain Comes Down PART VI: DOUBLING THE WORLD 20. Ptolemy Revived and Revised 21. Portuguese Sea Pioneers 22. Beyond the Threatening Cape 23. To India and Back 24. Why Not the Arabs? 25. The Chinese Reach Out 26. An Empire without Wants PART VII: THE AMERICAN SURPRISE 27. The Wandering Vikings 28. Dead End in Vinland 29. The Power of the Winds 30. “The Enterprise of the Indies” 31. Fair Winds, Soft Words, and Luck 32. Paradise Found and Lost 33. Naming the Unknown PART VIII: SEA PATHS TO EVERYWHERE 34. A World of Oceans 35. The Reign of Secrecy 36. Knowledge Becomes Merchandise 37. The Ardors of Negative Discovery BOOK THREE: NATURE PART IX: SEEING THE INVISIBLE 38. Into “the Mists of Paradox” 39. The Witness of the Naked Eye 40. A Vision Troubled and Surprised 41. Caught in the Cross Fire 42. New Worlds Within 43. Galileo in China PART X: INSIDE OURSELVES 44. A Mad Prophet Points the Way 45. The Tyranny of Galen 46. From Animals to Man 47. Unseen Currents Within 48. From Qualities to Quantities 49. “The Microscope of Nature” PART XI: SCIENCE GOES PUBLIC 50. A Parliament of Scientists 51. From Experience to Experiment 52. “God Said, Let Newton Be!” 53. Priority Becomes the Prize PART XII: CATALOGUING THE WHOLE CREATION 54. Learning to Look 55. The Invention of Species 56. Specimen Hunting 57. Stretching the Past 58. In Search of the Missing Link 59. Paths to Evolution BOOK FOUR: SOCIETY PART XIII: WIDENING THE COMMUNITIES OF KNOWLEDGE 60. The Lost Arts of Memory 61. Empire of the Learned 62. The Duplicating Impulse 63. “The Art of Artificial Writing” 64. Communities of the Vernacular 65. Transforming the Book 66. Books Go Public 67. The Island of Islam 68. Toward a World Literature PART XIV: OPENING THE PAST 69. The Birth of History 70. Christianity Gives Direction 71. Revising the Record 72. Explorers among the Ruins 73. “To Wake the Dead” 74. Latitudes of Time 75. The Discovery of Prehistory 76. Hidden Dimensions: History as Therapy PART XV: SURVEYING THE PRESENT 77. “All Mankind Is One” 78. The Shock of the Primitive 79. A Science of Culture 80. An Expanding Universe of Wealth 81. Learning from Numbers 82. The Infinite and the Infinitesimal Some Reference Notes Acknowledgments About the Author
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