Donald W. Robertson

Author of The Mind's Eye of Buckminster Fuller (1974), a study of Fuller's inventive thinking told through his patents and designs.

Robertson's book approaches Fuller from the inventor's side, using the patents as evidence of how Fuller reasoned from geometric and structural principle to buildable device. It is cited among the better accounts of Fuller as a working inventor rather than a philosopher — a complement to the more biographical or geometric studies.

Role in Fuller's orbit

Robertson is a student of Fuller's inventive process — the writer who read Fuller through his patents, mapping the path from idea to artifact.

See Also

• The Mind's Eye (The Mind's Eye) — the study he wrote
• Buckminster Fuller — United States Patents (Buckminster Fuller — United States Patents) — the patent record his study reads

Sources

• The Mind's Eye (source reference) — the work attributing authorship