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Nine Chains to the Moon

An Adventure Story of Thought
  • Richard Buckminster Fuller
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019
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Volume 165 | Bauwelt Fundamente

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Fuller’s first work in a new edition

New edition of Buckminster Fuller’s first work published in 1938, which was promoted by Albert Einstein. In 43 chapters the constructor, visionary, inventor, designer, creator of language, and spectacular performer rolls out the art of independent thought.

Fuller lays out an enormous horizon and Nine Chains to the Moon is equivalent to a navigation across the world we live in: "What Is a House?", "Death and Life", "Longing Crosses the Sea",　"Dollarability",　"We Call it Earth",　"Stomach Rhythms", "Ephemeralization"—from the microscopic to the automobile, to the house, to urbanity, to the image of the cosmos in constant movement. The title, said Fuller, is meant to stimulate open thinking: the 1938 world population, one person on the shoulders of another, will reach from the earth to the moon nine times!

  • The first work by Buckminster Fuller in the Bauwelt Fundamente series

  • With a foreword by Norman Foster and a postface by Joachim Krausse and Claude Lichtenstein

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Richard Buckminster Fuller

(1895-1983)

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Foreword to this New Edition of Nine Chains to the Moon

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    Lord Norman Foster
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    An Outline

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    1. Meet Mr. Murphy

    13
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    2. Stomach Rhythms Not All Rhumbas

    17
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    3. ’S a House, Darling

    21
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    4. The Phantom Captain

    30
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    5. What Is a House?

    42
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    6. Teleology

    55
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    7. We Call It “Earth”

    61
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    8. “E = Mc2” = Mrs. Murphy’s Horse Power

    72
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    9. Dollarability

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    10. Primary Motivations of Man: Fear and Longing

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    11. Genius and Talent

    110
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    12. Patrons of Art: Death and Life

    116
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    13. Span-Spinning from Abstract Thought to Physical Science

    126
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    14. Dogmatic Toll Takers: Detour via the North West Spiral: Triangles and Squares

    129
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    15. The 2000-Year Streamlining of Society

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    16. The Zero Hour

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    17. Baby Industry Is Kidnapped

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    18. Longing Crosses the Sea

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    19. Machinery Follows Longing and Carves a Trend Pattern

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    20. The Warehouse Era

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    21. Not in Vain Did They Die

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    22. Enter Alloy: Exit Rust

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    23. Ford Consolidates the Scientific Emergence

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    24. Accounting Subterfuges of Capital’s Bankruptcy

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    25. Indirect Effect of the War: Death of the Warehouse-Commerce City

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    26. Emergence Through Emergency

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    27. Trick Balance Sheet

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    28. Ecoballistics: Booms Boomerang

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    29. Speculation: Introducing the Mechanical Stock Exchange

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    30. 24 Hour Year Round, World Wide Referendum Service: True Credit Amplification

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    31. The Scientific Segregation of Scarcity and Plenitude

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    32. Universal Language

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    33. Ephemeralization

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    34. Science and Industry “Take Off” as the Boys “Get Down” to Business

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    35. Flimsy Fabric of the Abstract Monopolies

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    36. Throwing in the Patented Sponge

    285
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    37. Scrap – Coup d’Etat of the Random Element

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    38. Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe

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    39. Scientific Dwelling Service

    313
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    40. The Nine “Chains”

    332
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    41. Jones and the X-ian

    336
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    42. Resolved to Resolve

    342
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    43. Anthem

    351
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    Photo Gallery

    357
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    Claude Lichtenstein: Panopticon for the 21st Century

    376
    Claude Lichtenstein
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    Joachim Krausse: Fuller’s Oikos

    387
    Joachim Krausse
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eBook published on:
August 19, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9783035617764
Paperback published on:
August 19, 2019
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9783035617757
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384
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30
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035617764
eBook ISBN: 9783035617764
Paperback ISBN: 9783035617757
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Buckminster Fuller
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Architekten, Studierende, Architekturhistoriker und -theoretiker
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