11 Index
1Aesthetics, 75--76, 80--84, 146 ‘‘At Minimum Two,’’ 124--27
2 Bacon, Roger, 12
3 Boyle, Robert, 12
4 Buber, Martin, 121--22, 148
5 Butlerev, French chemist, 62
6 Buddha, Gautama, 38,121,123-24
7 Calligraphy, 98, 140--56 ‘‘Cosmic Plurality,’’ 35--37 Children, 43, 50--59, 79--80, 131--34
8 Cosmic religious sense, 38--40, 42, 73, 93--94
9Cosmography, 64--72
10 Cousins, Norman, 14
11 Creativity, 38--40, 135--37, 148--49. See also Aesthetics; Intuition
12Critical Path, 12, 155
13 Cummings, e.e., 26
14 Dartmouth Conference, 14, 138
15 Darwin, Charles, 86
16 Democritus, 38, 67
17 Dil, Afia, 51--53, 117--18
18 Dil, Anwar, 11,154; calligraphic art 98,140--56;as poet, 117--18,154
19 Dil, Kamran, 51, 160
20 Dymaxion car, 11
21 Dymaxion house, 11
22 Dymaxion map, 16, 101
23 Edison, Thomas Alva, 14
24 Einstein, Albert, 11, 38-49, 57-60, 73, 93-94, 121; mentioned, 12, 20, 76, 78, 85
25 Eliot, T. S., 26-27, 30
26 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 49
27 Equation, E = me2, 11, 40, 43, 49
28 Euler, Leonhard, 64--70
29 Evolution, 86--88, 92--93,129--34, 136--37, 157--59
30 Expo.’67 dome, see Geodesic dome
31 Fermi pile, 45--48
32 Fishbein, Morris, Dr., 41
33 Four, relationship of, 61--63, 72, 78, 107
34 Fowler, Gene, 116--17
35 Francis of Assisi, Saint, 38
36 Frankland, chemist, 62 Franklin, Benjamin, 14 Frost, Robert, 27 Fuller, Alexandra, 53
37 Fuller, Allegra, see Snyder, Allegra Fuller, Anne, 20--25, 97, 112--17, 135
38 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
39 Galbraith, John, 14
40 Galileo Galilei, 71
41 Gandhi, Indira, 15--16, 35--37
42 Gandhi, Mahatma, 15
43 Genius, 59--60, 82--84, 96
44 Geodesic dome, 13--14, 86--88, 112--16
45 God, 38, 39, 92--96, 100, 107--11, 118--28, 149, 155, 157
46 Goddard, Robert H., 100--101 Gravity and radiation, 100--106, 125--27
47Grunch of Giants, 85
48 Hahn, Otto, 45
49 Hemingway, Ernest, 28
50 Hoffmann, Banesh, 48
51 Hope, 85--93, 97, 100
52 ‘‘How Little I Know,’’ 29--34, 161--205
53 Hubble, Edwin Powell, 42
54Humans in Universe, 17, 139--140
55 ‘‘Integrity,’’ 223--28
56 Intellectual Development Game, 31--33
57Intuition, 20, 25, 73, 75, 109--11 Intuition, 73--80, 146
58 Iqbal, Muhammad, 118--121, 137
59 Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir, 67
60 Kepler, Johannes, 39, 71, 90, 94 Khrushchev, Nikita, 13--14 Kipling, Rudyard, 157
61 Leonardo da Vinci, 82--83; mentioned. 12, 20, 73, 76, 78, 85, 96
62 Leonardo Type, 16, 49
63 Love, 97, 100, 106--21, 124--27, 135--37
64 Luce, Claire Booth, 16--17
65 McCready’s ‘‘gossamer albatross,’’ 88
66 Mach, Ernst, 67--68
67 MacLeish, Archibald, 17
68 Malthus, Thomas, 86, 95
69 Manhattan Project, 44--48,124--25
70 Medal of Freedom, 17
71 Meitner, Lisa, 45
72 Minnesota, University of, 15 ‘‘Mistake Mystique,’’ 215--22 Montreal World Fair, 112--16. See also Geodesic dome
73 Morgan, Priscilla, 22
74 Morley, Christopher, 41, 50--51
75 Moynihan, Patrick, 14
76 Mrs. Murphy’s Horse Power, 43
77 Nehru, Jawaharlal, 15
78 Nehru Memorial Lecture, Third, 15--16, 49, 82
79 Newton, Isaac, Sir, 12, 39, 40, 71, 100--101
80Nine Chains to the Moon, 11, 38--43
81 Noguchi, Isamu, 21--23
82 Northrop, F. S. C., 74--75
83 Nothingness, symbol of, 68
84Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 15
85 Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 44--45
86 Pantheon, 87
87 Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus, 12 Pauling, Linus, 62
88 People’s Republic of China, 14--15 Poetry, 20--21, 24--37, 50--54, 107--11
89 Polyhedra, 64--72
90 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
91 Princeton University, 49
92 Radhakrishnan, S., 123
93 Radiation, see Gravity and radiation Religion, 38--39, 93--96,107--108, 118--24
94 Rembrandt van Rijn, 70, 71
95 Rockefeller, David, 14
96 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 11
97 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 45--47
98 Rudge, Olga, 20--25
99 Russell, Bertrand, 85, 93
100 Saint Peter’s Dome, 87
101 Simon, Norton, 14
102 Snyder, Alexandra, 53--54
103 Snyder, Allegra Fuller, 53--55, 112 Snyder, Jamie Lawrence, 53--54 Spaceship Earth, 13, 157--59 Spinoza, Baruch, 38, 121
104 Spoleto Festival, 20--21
105 Strassmann, Fritz, 45
106 Structural systems, 57, 62--63, 64--72, 81--84, 86--90. See also Gravity and radiation; Synergetics; Technology; Tensegrity; Vectors
107 Students, dissident, 132--33
108 Suzuki, D. T., 124
109Synergetics, 12
110 Synergetics, 12, 84, 125--27
111 Tagore, Rabindranath, 51--53, 137 Taj Mahal, 122--26
112 Technology, 86--90, 92--93, 129, 133, 158--59
113 Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 121, 122--23
114 Tensegrity, 49, 89, 90
115 Tentative Cosmic Inventory, 42
116 Tesla, Nicola, 12
117 Tetrahedron, 36, 62, 67, 72, 82
118 Tetravertexion, 68, 69, 70, 72
119 Thinking process, 19--20, 60--63, 65--66, 71--72, 73, 76--84
120 Thought systems, 65--66, 71--72
121 Triangles, 81--82
122 United States International University, 17, 56
123 Universe, 30--34,37,49,57,65-68 passim, 82, 87, 112, 119--21, 127, 129--30, 149; mentioned 16, 94, 119, 157
124 USSR, 13--14, 73
125 U Thant, 12
126 Van’t Hoff, Jacobus Hendricus, 62--63
127 Vectors, 102--106
128 Wells, H. G., 11
129 Whitman, Walt, 27
130 Woman, 135--37, 145
131 Wright, Frank Lloyd, 11