Home The World is Round Prologue Chapter One: Signing On (In the Classical Style) Chapter Two: Casting Off Chapter Three: First Mistakes Chapter Four: Introductions for Planet and Explorer I Chapter Five: Introductions for Planet and Explorer II Chapter Six: A Propitious Arrival and a Hasty Retreat Chapter Seven: Death Row Chapter Eight: The Treasure Chest Chapter Nine: Dialogue on Two World Systems Chapter Ten: Conjectures and Refutations Chapter Eleven: Homecoming Chapter Twelve: And Back Again Chapter Thirteen: Turn Back the Clock: A Girl Alone Chapter Fourteen: Again Turn Back the Clock: The Night Begins Chapter Fifteen: A Brief Glimpse Underground Chapter Sixteen: The First Crack in the Sky Chapter Seventeen: Fire or Stars; Personalities vs. Universes Chapter Eighteen: Confronting the Past, Confronting the Present, Confronting the Future Chapter Nineteen: Trapped by a Planet and a Friend Chapter Twenty: Daybreak in the North: The Journey Begins Chapter Twenty-One: Daybreak in the South: Other Journeys Begin Chapter Twenty-Two: The Road to Cathay Chapter Twenty-Three: So Near and Yet So Far Chapter Twenty-Four: Two Epiphanies Chapter Twenty-Five: Swept Away Chapter Twenty-Six: A Gathering of Friends Chapter Twenty-Seven: Another Homecoming Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Second Gathering of Friends Chapter Twenty-Nine: To the Underworld Chapter Thirty: Two Problems Chapter Thirty-One: In the Realm of the Gods Chapter Thirty-Two: Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter Chapter Thirty-Three: Education Chapter Thirty-Four: The Logic of Scientific Discovery Chapter Thirty-Five: Dialogue Concerning a Third World System Chapter Thirty-Six: The Great Siege Chapter Thirty-Seven: Final Convergence, or the New Cosmology Appendix: Days and Nights on Patra-Bannk (Revised 2020) A Note from the Technical Illustrator 2020 Autobiographical Note 2020 Back Cover Next » The World is Round
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Acknowledgments and Dedication
Many thanks to Dr. Art Bowling, Dr. Wayne Christiansen, and
Dr. Richard J. Mikovsky for stimulating conversations , as
they say in journalism. Equal thanks to Cali Hollander for
discussions of a more literary nature. Most of all, a dedication
of this effort to Steve Goldberg, sociologist, Lorin Hollander,
pianist, and Sebastian von Hoerner, physicist, whose diverse
thoughts, more than any others, influenced the writing of this
book.
Home The World is Round Prologue Chapter One: Signing On (In the Classical Style) Chapter Two: Casting Off Chapter Three: First Mistakes Chapter Four: Introductions for Planet and Explorer I Chapter Five: Introductions for Planet and Explorer II Chapter Six: A Propitious Arrival and a Hasty Retreat Chapter Seven: Death Row Chapter Eight: The Treasure Chest Chapter Nine: Dialogue on Two World Systems Chapter Ten: Conjectures and Refutations Chapter Eleven: Homecoming Chapter Twelve: And Back Again Chapter Thirteen: Turn Back the Clock: A Girl Alone Chapter Fourteen: Again Turn Back the Clock: The Night Begins Chapter Fifteen: A Brief Glimpse Underground Chapter Sixteen: The First Crack in the Sky Chapter Seventeen: Fire or Stars; Personalities vs. Universes Chapter Eighteen: Confronting the Past, Confronting the Present, Confronting the Future Chapter Nineteen: Trapped by a Planet and a Friend Chapter Twenty: Daybreak in the North: The Journey Begins Chapter Twenty-One: Daybreak in the South: Other Journeys Begin Chapter Twenty-Two: The Road to Cathay Chapter Twenty-Three: So Near and Yet So Far Chapter Twenty-Four: Two Epiphanies Chapter Twenty-Five: Swept Away Chapter Twenty-Six: A Gathering of Friends Chapter Twenty-Seven: Another Homecoming Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Second Gathering of Friends Chapter Twenty-Nine: To the Underworld Chapter Thirty: Two Problems Chapter Thirty-One: In the Realm of the Gods Chapter Thirty-Two: Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter Chapter Thirty-Three: Education Chapter Thirty-Four: The Logic of Scientific Discovery Chapter Thirty-Five: Dialogue Concerning a Third World System Chapter Thirty-Six: The Great Siege Chapter Thirty-Seven: Final Convergence, or the New Cosmology Appendix: Days and Nights on Patra-Bannk (Revised 2020) A Note from the Technical Illustrator 2020 Autobiographical Note 2020 Back Cover Next »