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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction: Savants
Prelude: The Mask and the Veil
Part I: The Great Chain of Being
Chapter One: Of the Linden Tree
Chapter Two: A Course in Starvation
Chapter Three: The Salt-Keeper’s Son
Chapter Four: Vegetable Lambs and Barnacle Trees
Chapter Five: Several Bridegrooms, Several Brides
Chapter Six: The Greater Gift of Patience
Chapter Seven: Now in Blame, Now in Honor
Chapter Eight: The Seven-Headed Hydra of Hamburg
Chapter Nine: An Abridgment of the World Entire
Chapter Ten: Loathsome Harlotry
Chapter Eleven: The Quarrel of the Universals
Part II: This Prodigious Multitude
Chapter Twelve: Goldfish for the Queen
Chapter Thirteen: Covering Myself in Dust and Ashes
Chapter Fourteen: The Only Prize Available
Chapter Fifteen: Durable and Even Eternal
Chapter Sixteen: Baobab-zu-zu
Chapter Seventeen: So Many New and Unknown Parts
Chapter Eighteen: Governed by Laws, Governed by Whim
Chapter Nineteen: A General Prototype
Chapter Twenty: Breaking the Lens
Chapter Twenty-one: My Cold Years
Chapter Twenty-two: The Price of Time
Part III: God’s Registrar
Chapter Twenty-three: Germinal, Floreal, Thermidor, Messidor
Chapter Twenty-four: Transformism and Catastrophism
Chapter Twenty-five: Platypus
Chapter Twenty-six: Laughably Like Mine
Chapter Twenty-seven: The Rhymes of the Universe
Chapter Twenty-eight: Most Human of Humans
Chapter Twenty-nine: A Large Web or Rather a Network
Dedication
Acknowledgments
For Your Exploration
Notes and Sources
Bibliography
Index
Other Titles
About the Author
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