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Index
Title page Copyright Praise for The Penultimate Curiosity Acknowledgements Contents Prologue Part I: In the Beginning I 1. The First Men The Bison in the Cave The Abbé The Three Brothers 2. Tentasali The Bone in the Gorge Getting to Know You 3. Watauinaiwa American Dreams African Rock Ethnographic Snap Beagle Three Roots and Shoots 4. The Garden of Eden Moment The Beginning of History Out of Africa 1 Out of Africa 2 East of Java 5. Primate Parallels Leakey’s Angels Natural Psychologists The Rouge Test The Waterfall Dance 6. Horizons of Curiosity Curiosity and the Cat The Cathedral of Mind Fluidity and Gridlock Darwin’s Swallows The Four-Year War The Integrative Struggle 7. Ultimate Curiosity Homo religiosus Homo symbolicus Big Picture Thinking Making and Matching Moving in a Slipstream Part II: God-Driven Science 8. The Lions of Miletus The Three Clues The Ionian Philosophers 9. The Move to Athens Spells and Incantations The Socratic Search 10. Through the Academy Door Plato and the Mathematicians Aristotle’s Arche The Art of Living Philosophy as Therapy The Hellenistic World Part III: Encounters in Alexandria 11. The Two Students Abraham and the Arche A Visible God The Alexandrian School John the Grammarian 12. The Divided City The Sages of the Nations The River of Truth Philosophy and Legends The School of Athens 13. Industrious Jack Proceeding from Premises Physical Explanation Simplicius in Exile 14. The Creation of the World Christian Topographia Kinetiké Dunamis John Labour’s Lost Part IV: The Long Argument 15. The House of Wisdom As Far as China The Round City The Houses of Wisdom The Structured Heaven 16. The Dream of Aristotle The Bookseller of Baghdad Kalam The Philosopher of the Arabs The Baghdad Aristotelians The Flying Man Questions and Answers The Mad Philosopher 17. Al-Ghazali’s Pilgrimage Al-Ash‘ari The Incoherence A Palm Tree in Rusafa Rambam A New Universe 18. A Tale of Two Cities The Poverty of the Latins Oxford and Paris Bob Large Head Friars and Friaries The Dumb Ox The Paris Condemnations 19. Imposed Silence Peter the Pilgrim The Hounds of God The Chapter of Narbonne 20. Experimental Science The Great Work Measuring Rainbows 21. The Universal Law The Merton Calculators The Age of Buridan Rattus rattus The Gun and the Book Part V: The Open Book of Heaven 22. Against Aristotle Philoponus Regained The Starry Message 23. Free Philosophizing A Beam of Wisdom Inquisitions A Letter to the Duchess 24. The Freedom of Intellect The Assayer The Manifesto 25. Simplicius Reborn Vehemently Suspect 26. The Creation Cosmos and Cannonballs The Universal Law Part VI: Priests of Nature 27. A New Era The Lucid Sirloin Reformation Day An Absurd Matter 28. A Lutheran Astrologer A Priest of God The Renovation of Astronomy World Harmony 29. The Experimental Philosophy The Allegory of Nature Entering the Kingdom Plus Ultra The New Instrument 30. The Oxonian Sparkles The Experimental Club The Spring of Air The Christian Virtuosi Light and Evidence Boundless Sea Part VII: The Ocean of Truth 31. Le Grand Newton The High Silence The Impetuous Man Feigning Hypotheses The Great Newton 32. The Beautiful System A Skill in Divinity The Polish Brethren The Frame of the World Freedom and Necessity Natural Theology 33. Mathematical Theologies An Odd Opinion The Dangers of Defence The Pascaline Pensées Concerning the Machine A Thinking Reed The Tales of Fairies 34. The Coast of Infinity Universal Extent The Ocean of Stars On Brighton Beach Part VIII: Voyages of Discovery 35. Two Journeys Here and Everywhere Two Books Walking in Wonders The Sublime Science Stars, Stars, Stars 36. The Mystery of Mysteries A Natural Process A Theory by Which to Work 37. The Creed of Science The Law of Higgledy Piggledy Most Beautiful and Wonderful Two Truths Part IX: In the Beginning II 38. The Literary Inquest A Passage to India The Behistun Rosetta The Buried Cities Breaking the Code Finding the Library 39. Breaking the Seals 40. The Intellectual Picklock Bird Tracks and Bibles Three Expeditions 41. In a Strange Land Atra-hasis Zi-ud-sura Noah’s Ark Meanings and Motives 42. By the Waters of Babylon Captives and Exiles Is It Not Written? Enuma Elish Babel Babble I Am He 43. Adam and Adapa Adapting Adapa Shamash Idols and Idolatory The Appearance of the Likeness Myth, Mechanism, and Metaphor 44. Ariadne’s Thread The Works of God The Problem of Pain What God Has Done Following the Thread Part X: Through the Laboratory Door 45. Science in a Time of Cholera Dr Acland A Memoir of the Cholera Our Local Barnum Nisi Dominus 46. A Visit to the Museum The Eirenicon The Harveian The Theologian and the Scientist 47. Experiments of Thought The Rings of Saturn The Colour Box The Demon in the Gas 48. The Unity of Nature Lines of Force Wheels and Cogs Let There Be Light 49. The Works of the Lord The Mysterious Belfry Hamlet’s Ghost The Cavendish Doors Part XI: Epilogue 50. Epilogue Act I: Conflict Epicurus Reborn The Evolution of Morals The Philosophy of Chance Branches and Saws The Fallacies of Origins The Fallacy of Chance Watches and Watchmaking Probability Problems The Bayesian Brain Act II: Subversion The Astonishing Brain Quantum Quandaries ACT III: Resolution Vivisection in Oxford The Difficult Conclusion List of Illustrations Bibliography Index
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