A Fuller Explanation
A Fuller Explanation by Amy C. Edmondson provides a comprehensive introduction to R. Buckminster Fuller's "Synergetics" — his systematic study of nature's geometric patterns and principles. The book aims to make Fuller's complex geometric and philosophical ideas accessible to a general audience.
Core structure
- Summary
- Foreword to the 1992 edition
- Preface to the 1992 edition
- Note to Readers
- Return to Modelability
- The Irrationality of Pi
Main ideas
- In a broad sense Design Science is the grammar of a language of image rather than words.
- Buckminster Fuller has been alternately hailed as the most innovative thinker of our time and dismissed as an incomprehensible maverick, but there is a consistent thread running through all the wildly disparate reactions.
- Quotations from Fuller's Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (organized into numbered sections and subsections so that each paragraph has its own reference number) are followed by the numerical section references.
Why it matters
Buckminster Fuller has been alternately hailed as the most innovative thinker of our time and dismissed as an incomprehensible maverick, but there is a consistent thread running through all the wildly disparate reactions. One point about which there is little disagreement is the difficulty of understanding him — which is what this book sets out to remedy.
See Also
- Amy C. Edmondson (Amy C. Edmondson) — author of this book
Sources
- a_fuller_explanation/index.md — book project directory (repo-local source tree)
- a_fuller_explanation/summary.md — project summary
- a_fuller_explanation/ — source project root