Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Note on the Translation ix
4. Preface xi
5. I A Metaphor for the Totality of Experience 1
6. II The World of Books and the Book of the World 8
7. III The Sky as Book, the Book in the Sky 13
8. IV Alphabetic Analogies 26
9. V The Delayed Appearance of the Second Book 36
10. VI The Illiterate Layman as Reader of the World Book 46
11. VII God’s Books Agree with Each Other 54
12. VIII Asymmetries of Readability 69
13. IX Encryption and Decryption of the Human World 87
14. X World Chronicle or World Formula 98
15. XI A Robinsonian World against the Newtonian World 123
16. XII Anticipations of the Nineteenth Century 133
17. XIII The Hamburg Book of Nature and Its Reflection in Königsberg 148
18. XIV Signs on Foreheads, Signs in the Sky 164
19. XV “How Readable the Book of Nature is Becoming for Me . . .” 177
20. XVI “The World Must Be Romanticized” 193
21. XVII The Idea of the Absolute Book 222
22. XVIII A Book on Nature as a Book of Nature 234
23. XIX The Empty World Book 250
24. XX Preparation for the Interpretation of Dreams 271
25. XXI Making Dreams Readable 281
26. XXII The Genetic Code and Its Readers 311
27. Notes 343
28. Name Index 385
29. Subject Index 391