Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Tables xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Note on References xvii
7. Introduction xix
8. CHAPTER 1 What Is the World? 1
9. CHAPTER 2 HOW Is It Built? 24
10. CHAPTER 3 How Should We Think About It? 32
11. CHAPTER 4 The Sky Is a Machine 54
12. CHAPTER 5 The Christian Cosmos 78
13. CHAPTER 6 What Are These Things I See? 95
14. CHAPTER 7 The Wider Shores of Knowledge 109
15. CHAPTER 8 Illumination 124
16. CHAPTER 9 The Spheres Are Broken 142
17. CHAPTER 10 Influences 170
18. CHAPTER 11 They Move According to Number 202
19. CHAPTER 12 Time, Space, and Form 224
20. CHAPTER 13 A World of Bronze and Marble 243
21. CHAPTER 14 Two Theories of Relativity 275
22. CHAPTER 15 Very Small and Far Away 305
23. CHAPTER 16 Does It Make Sense? 334
24. CHAPTER 17 Moving Down the Scale 352
25. CHAPTER 18 And Now the Universe 372
26. CHAPTER 19 Order and Law 387
27. NOTE A Hero's Principle 407
28. NOTE B Fermat's Principle 408
29. NOTE C Newton's Theorem 409
30. NOTE D Calculation of the Moon's Period 411
31. NOTE E The Law of Areas 412
32. NOTE F Elliptical Orbits 414
33. NOTE G Derivation of Young's Formula 417
34. NOTE H Of Time and the River 418
35. NOTE I The Mass of a Moving Object 419
36. NOTE J The Two-Slit Experiment in Quantum Mechanics 420
37. NOTE K Quantum Correlations That Suggest Action at a Distance 423
38. NOTE L The Troublesome Question of How Things Look 425
39. NOTE M Theory of the Expanding Universe 427
40. Bibliography 433
41. Index 453