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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: How to Avoid the G-Word
Back to the Multiverse
The One and the Many
Whence the Modern Multiverse?
The Rise of the Dark Lord
Mapping the Multiverse
1. A Single, Complete Whole
“So Let Us Begin Again …”: Plato’s Timaeus
Reflecting Singularity: The Aristotelian Cosmos
2. Ancient Openings of Multiplicity
Accident and Infinity: Atomist Configurations of the Kosmoi
Fire and the Phoenix: Stoic Configurations of the Kosmoi
Once More, with Feeling
3. Navigating the Infinite
Ending the Endless: Thomas Aquinas
End Without End: Nicholas of Cusa
Infinity Unbound: Giordano Bruno
4. Measuring the Immeasurable
From Infinity to Pluralism: Seventeenth-Century Cosmologies
An Immeasurable Abyss: Immanuel Kant’s Cosmic Symposium
5. Bangs, Bubbles, and Branes: Atomists Versus Stoics, Take Two
Let There Be Light
And the Darkness Has Overcome It
The Rise of Inflation
Other Answers: The Return of the Phoenix
6. Ascending to the Ultimate Multiverse
The Quantum Multiverse
Black Holes and Baby Universes
Multiverse of Multiverses (Forever and Ever)
Unendings: On the Entanglement of Science and Religion
Which Side Are You On?
The Bullet and the Blunderbuss
Bidden or Unbidden
On the Genealogy of Cosmology
Unscientific Postscribble
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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