Chapter 11
Index
2Aesthetics, 75--76, 80--84, 146 ‘‘At Minimum Two,’’ 124--27
3 Bacon, Roger, 12
4 Boyle, Robert, 12
5 Buber, Martin, 121--22, 148
6 Butlerev, French chemist, 62
7 Buddha, Gautama, 38,121,123-24
8 Calligraphy, 98, 140--56 ‘‘Cosmic Plurality,’’ 35--37 Children, 43, 50--59, 79--80, 131--34
9 Cosmic religious sense, 38--40, 42, 73, 93--94
10 Cosmography, 64--72
11 Cousins, Norman, 14
12 Creativity, 38--40, 135--37, 148--49. See also Aesthetics; Intuition
13 Critical Path, 12, 155
14 Cummings, e.e., 26
15 Dartmouth Conference, 14, 138
16 Darwin, Charles, 86
17 Democritus, 38, 67
18 Dil, Afia, 51--53, 117--18
19 Dil, Anwar, 11,154; calligraphic art 98,140--56;as poet, 117--18,154
20 Dil, Kamran, 51, 160
21 Dymaxion car, 11
22 Dymaxion house, 11
23 Dymaxion map, 16, 101
24 Edison, Thomas Alva, 14
25 Einstein, Albert, 11, 38-49, 57-60, 73, 93-94, 121; mentioned, 12, 20, 76, 78, 85
26 Eliot, T. S., 26-27, 30
27 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 49
28 Equation, E = me2, 11, 40, 43, 49
29 Euler, Leonhard, 64--70
30 Evolution, 86--88, 92--93,129--34, 136--37, 157--59
31 Expo.’67 dome, see Geodesic dome
32 Fermi pile, 45--48
33 Fishbein, Morris, Dr., 41
34 Four, relationship of, 61--63, 72, 78, 107
35 Fowler, Gene, 116--17
36 Francis of Assisi, Saint, 38
37 Frankland, chemist, 62 Franklin, Benjamin, 14 Frost, Robert, 27 Fuller, Alexandra, 53
38 Fuller, Allegra, see Snyder, Allegra Fuller, Anne, 20--25, 97, 112--17, 135
39 Fuller, Buckminster: as inventor, 11, 14, 16, 49, 86, 89, 90, 94--95; as engineer, 13,17, 95; and geodesic dome, 13--14, 86--88, 112--15, 116; travels as lecturer and teacher, 15--16, 17, 49, 77, 85, 132--33,135; as architect 15--16, 17; as ‘‘friend of the universe,’’ 20, 23, 24, 28, 33, 49, 56; Intellectual Development Game, 31--33; concept of Universe, 33--34; Tentative Cosmic Inventory, 42; childhood, 56--57, 59, 78--79, 91--92; as thinker and doer, 85--92, 94--95; as pilot, 85, 92; as mechanic, 90--91; life philosophy, 94--96, 128; marriage, 97, 112--17, 135; debate with Professor X, 97--99; one-world-island-in-one-world-ocean map, 101; unity as minimum two, 124--27; on making mistakes, 130, 136, 215--22. Works: ‘‘At Minimum Two,’’ 124--27; ‘‘Cosmic Plurality,’’ 35--37; Cosmography, 64--72; Critical Path, 12, 155; Crunch of Giants, 85, ‘‘How Little I Know,’’ 29--34, 161--205; Humans in Universe, 17, 139--40; ‘‘Integrity,’’ 223--28; Intuition, 20, 25, 73, 75, 108--11; ‘‘Mistake Mystique,’’ 215--22; Nine Chains to the Moon, 11, 38--43; Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 15; ‘‘Preparing For a Small One-Town World,’’ 207--13; Synergetics, 12
40 Galbraith, John, 14
41 Galileo Galilei, 71
42 Gandhi, Indira, 15--16, 35--37
43 Gandhi, Mahatma, 15
44 Genius, 59--60, 82--84, 96
45 Geodesic dome, 13--14, 86--88, 112--16
46 God, 38, 39, 92--96, 100, 107--11, 118--28, 149, 155, 157
47 Goddard, Robert H., 100--101 Gravity and radiation, 100--106, 125--27
48 Grunch of Giants, 85
49 Hahn, Otto, 45
50 Hemingway, Ernest, 28
51 Hoffmann, Banesh, 48
52 Hope, 85--93, 97, 100
53 ‘‘How Little I Know,’’ 29--34, 161--205
54 Hubble, Edwin Powell, 42
55 Humans in Universe, 17, 139--140
56 ‘‘Integrity,’’ 223--28
57 Intellectual Development Game, 31--33
58 Intuition, 20, 25, 73, 75, 109--11 Intuition, 73--80, 146
59 Iqbal, Muhammad, 118--121, 137
60 Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir, 67
61 Kepler, Johannes, 39, 71, 90, 94 Khrushchev, Nikita, 13--14 Kipling, Rudyard, 157
62 Leonardo da Vinci, 82--83; mentioned. 12, 20, 73, 76, 78, 85, 96
63 Leonardo Type, 16, 49
64 Love, 97, 100, 106--21, 124--27, 135--37
65 Luce, Claire Booth, 16--17
66 McCready’s ‘‘gossamer albatross,’’ 88
67 Mach, Ernst, 67--68
68 MacLeish, Archibald, 17
69 Malthus, Thomas, 86, 95
70 Manhattan Project, 44--48,124--25
71 Medal of Freedom, 17
72 Meitner, Lisa, 45
73 Minnesota, University of, 15 ‘‘Mistake Mystique,’’ 215--22 Montreal World Fair, 112--16. See also Geodesic dome
74 Morgan, Priscilla, 22
75 Morley, Christopher, 41, 50--51
76 Moynihan, Patrick, 14
77 Mrs. Murphy’s Horse Power, 43
78 Nehru, Jawaharlal, 15
79 Nehru Memorial Lecture, Third, 15--16, 49, 82
80 Newton, Isaac, Sir, 12, 39, 40, 71, 100--101
81 Nine Chains to the Moon, 11, 38--43
82 Noguchi, Isamu, 21--23
83 Northrop, F. S. C., 74--75
84 Nothingness, symbol of, 68
85 Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 15
86 Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 44--45
87 Pantheon, 87
88 Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus, 12 Pauling, Linus, 62
89 People’s Republic of China, 14--15 Poetry, 20--21, 24--37, 50--54, 107--11
90 Polyhedra, 64--72
91 Polyvertexia, 67, 69, 70 ‘‘Post-moon-landers,’’ 133--34 Pound, Ezra, 20--29, 30, 33, 49 ‘‘Preparing For a Small One-Town World,’’ 207--13
92 Princeton University, 49
93 Radhakrishnan, S., 123
94 Radiation, see Gravity and radiation Religion, 38--39, 93--96,107--108, 118--24
95 Rembrandt van Rijn, 70, 71
96 Rockefeller, David, 14
97 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 11
98 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 45--47
99 Rudge, Olga, 20--25
100 Russell, Bertrand, 85, 93
101 Saint Peter’s Dome, 87
102 Simon, Norton, 14
103 Snyder, Alexandra, 53--54
104 Snyder, Allegra Fuller, 53--55, 112 Snyder, Jamie Lawrence, 53--54 Spaceship Earth, 13, 157--59 Spinoza, Baruch, 38, 121
105 Spoleto Festival, 20--21
106 Strassmann, Fritz, 45
107 Structural systems, 57, 62--63, 64--72, 81--84, 86--90. See also Gravity and radiation; Synergetics; Technology; Tensegrity; Vectors
108 Students, dissident, 132--33
109 Suzuki, D. T., 124
110 Synergetics, 12
111 Synergetics, 12, 84, 125--27
112 Tagore, Rabindranath, 51--53, 137 Taj Mahal, 122--26
113 Technology, 86--90, 92--93, 129, 133, 158--59
114 Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 121, 122--23
115 Tensegrity, 49, 89, 90
116 Tentative Cosmic Inventory, 42
117 Tesla, Nicola, 12
118 Tetrahedron, 36, 62, 67, 72, 82
119 Tetravertexion, 68, 69, 70, 72
120 Thinking process, 19--20, 60--63, 65--66, 71--72, 73, 76--84
121 Thought systems, 65--66, 71--72
122 Triangles, 81--82
123 United States International University, 17, 56
124 Universe, 30--34,37,49,57,65-68 passim, 82, 87, 112, 119--21, 127, 129--30, 149; mentioned 16, 94, 119, 157
125 USSR, 13--14, 73
126 U Thant, 12
127 Van’t Hoff, Jacobus Hendricus, 62--63
128 Vectors, 102--106
129 Wells, H. G., 11
130 Whitman, Walt, 27
131 Woman, 135--37, 145
132 Wright, Frank Lloyd, 11