The Grand Contraption : : The World as Myth, Number, and Chance /

The Grand Contraption : : The World as Myth, Number, and Chance / / David Park.

The Grand Contraption tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know its real and imagined inhabitants. No other book has provided as coherent, compelling, and learne...

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Park, David,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2005
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 8 halftones. 41 line illus. 2 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • ONE Voices from the Sands
  • TWO Managing the World
  • THREE Guesswork
  • FOUR Earth and Heaven
  • FIVE Beginnings and Endings
  • SIX Philosophy Continued
  • INTERLUDE The World Map
  • SEVEN Toward a New Astronomy
  • EIGHT What Is the World Made Of?
  • NINE The Universe Measured
  • TEN The Exploding Universe
  • ELEVEN The View from Here
  • REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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