Index
Abacus, 37
Abortion, 265
Air turbines, 23, 27
Air, identification of gases in, 37
Albert Einstein, 31
Alexander the Great, 100, 101, 115
Alexandrai (Egypt), 106, 108
Alexandria (Egypt), 100
Algebra, 36, 50, 60, 126
Alloying, 119, 121
increased tensile strength through, 117, 118, 121
quasicube in, 166
Allspace, 56, 57, 64, 65, 77
rhombic dodecahedra as filling, 65
Aluminum, 117, 121, 197
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 268
American Geographical Society, 252
American Institute of Architects (AIA), 15
American Institute of Architects (AIA), ideal 1927 house of, 120
Andromeda, 111
Angles, 12, 98, 105
around system, 98
sum of, 54, 98, 202
Angular acceleration, 20, 23, 224, 227
Antientropy, 79
Apollo Project, 122, 123
Arabia, 100, 108
ancient,, 99
Arabic numerals, 37, 108
Archimedes, 42
Aristarchus, 106
Around, 110
Artifact revolution, 3
advantages to humanity from, 7, 8
problem-solving by, 6
Assumptions, elimination of, 32
Asteroids, Universe’s creation of, 263
Atmospheric re-entry heat, 187
Atom smashers, 249, 262
Atomic bombs
dilemma of,, 277
disarmament of,, 84, 272
Atomic clock, 53
Atomic energy, phasing out of,, 124
Atoms, 9
August Möbius, 153
Austronesia, 97--99, 103
Avogadro’s law, 43, 126, 175, 248
Axial rotation, 19, 219
Axiomatic, definition of, 126
Axioms, elimination of, 32
Babylonia, 97, 98
Balloons, 187, 188, 190
Bell-jar experiment, 37
Berkeley, University of California at, 273
Betweenness, 141, 143, 144
Big bang theorists, 41, 44
Bio-‘‘life’’, 258
Black Mountain College, 95
Blackbody Radiation, 86, 112
Boeing 747, 6, 7, 262
Boggs, Samuel W., 252
Bowditch curves.See Lissajous figures., 250
Boyle’s Law, 175
Brain, mind distinguished from, 35, 36, 39
Brenneman, Richard, 275
Bridgman, Percy Williams, 32
British East India Company, 115
British Empire, 115
as first spherical-world empire, 115
Brooklyn Bridge, 117
Brownian movement, 86, 88, 112
Buckminsterfullerenes, 71
Buddhism, 101
Butlerev, Alexander, 235
c-g-s system, 236, 244, 246
Calculus, 211
Newton and, 90
California, University of, at Berkeley, 273
Canvas, wood-frame-mounted, 152
Capitalism, 26, 100, 116
Carbon, 9, 47, 71, 78, 117, 118, 197, 236, 278
caroming, 187
Celestial bodies. See also Planets, 36
physical laws of, 5, 21, 36, 39, 40, 263
Stars human observation of, 38, 41, 43, 71, 102
Charles Darwin, 116
Christianity, 101
See also Roman Catholicism, 81
chrome-molybdenum, 117
Chrome-nickel-steel alloy, 118
Cipher, invention of, 36--39, 108, 109, 126
Circles, 205
See also Great circles as finite polygons, 205
Clipper ships, 14
Club of Rome report (1972), 123
Columbus, Christopher, 109
Columns, 94
Greek diameter-to-length ratio of, 257
possible height of, 94
Communism, 116
Compasses, ships, 227
Compression and tension, 46, 94, 117, 141, 210, 299
Computers, trigonometric, 211
Concave and convex, 51, 62, 147, 229
Considered, consideration, definition of, 76, 139
Coordination systems
cubical, 56, 104
tetrahedron-based, 56, 63
XYZ, 50, 65, 105, 109, 148, 150, 211, 236, 244
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 36, 38, 109
Copper, 122, 123
hemispheres spun in, 252
Corners, 150
coupler, 65
Curl, Dr. Robert, 71
Dark Ages, 1, 2, 67, 71, 125
Dymaxion, 121
Dymaxion World Map, 98
effulgence, 70
Einstein, 81, 111, 235
Ernst Mach, 140
Eudoxus, 106
Euler’s formula, 130
exceptionless, 69
Fritz Strassmann, 85
Galileo, 81
General System Theory, 130, 235
Genghis Khan, 115
gimbal, 227
Gossamer Albatross, 47
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 117
Heracleides, 106
Image-I-nation, 75
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 63
isotropic vector matrix, 57
J. H. van’t Hoff, 235
Jai alai, 129
Karl Marx, 116
Kepler, 81
killingry, 26, 123
Kroto, Dr. Harry, 71
law of similitude, 68, 100
Leonard Euler, 130
Lissajous, 249
Lissajous figures, 250
livingry, 121, 123
Ludwig von Bertalanffy, 130
minisystem, 144
minitude, 72
mites, 66, 248
Moon, 122, 139
multiplication by division, 55, 56, 73
natural philosophers, 125
Nobel Prize, 235
Ohm’s law, 252
Otto Hahn, 85
Paul McCready, 47
Philolaus, 106
photons, 111
pi, 74
Planck’s Constant, 244, 246
Plato, 106
polyvertexia, 139
precession, 129, 219
Princeton, 93, 95, 96
quarks, 66
quartemary, 256
Rembrandt, 152
Rhombic dodecahedron, 63
Rice University, 71
Roman Catholicism, 81
scalene, 242
Scheherazade Number, 73, 74
similitude, 13, 42
Sinbad the Sailor, 100
Sir Edward Frankland, 235
Sir James Jeans, 140
Smalley, Dr. Richard, 71
solid-state, 70
spherical trigonometry, 252
suicide, 120
Sun, 124, 234
synergetics, 125
synergy, 35
Syntropy, 79
syntropy, 55, 78, 263
tensegrity, 46, 186
tetrahedron, 44
Thomas Malthus, 115
topology, 130
Trafalgar, 115
Universe, 68
Vertexes, 150
W. A. Roehling, 117
Willard Gibbs
phase rule, 175
World War I, 117--120, 271
World War II, 70, 118
X-rays, 117
Yale, 69
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