Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Preface 9
4. A Note on Punctuation 17
5. 1. On Method, Discursive Logics, and Epistemology 21
6. 2. Questions of Medieval Discursive Practice 55
7. 3. From the Middle Ages to the (W)Hole of Utopia 108
8. 4. Kepler, His Dream, and the Analysis and Pattern of Thought 140
9. 5. Campanella and Bacon: Concerning Structures of Mind 168
10. 6. The Masculine Birth of Time 198
11. 7. Cyrano and the Experimental Discourse 226
12. 8. The Myth of Sun and Moon 261
13. 9. The Difficulty of Writing 277
14. 10. Crusoe Rights His Story 294
15. 11. Gulliver's Critique of Euclid 328
16. 12. Emergence, Consolidation, and Dominance of a Discourse 351
17. Bibliography 387
18. Index 403