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| List of Illustrations | ix | |
| List of Tables | xiii | |
| Acknowledgments | xv | |
| Note on References | xvii | |
| Introduction | xix | |
| Chapter 1 | What Is the World? | 3 |
| Chapter 2 | How Is It Built? | 24 |
| Chapter 3 | How Should We Think About It? | 32 |
| Chapter 4 | The Sky Is a Machine | 54 |
| Chapter 5 | The Christian Cosmos | 78 |
| Chapter 6 | What Are These Things I See? | 95 |
| Chapter 7 | The Wider Shores of Knowledge | 109 |
| Chapter 8 | Illumination | 124 |
| Chapter 9 | The Spheres Are Broken | 142 |
| Chapter 10 | Influences | 170 |
| Chapter 11 | They Move According to Number | 202 |
| Chapter 12 | Time, Space, and Form | 224 |
| Chapter 13 | A World of Bronze and Marble | 243 |
| Chapter 14 | Two Theories of Relativity | 275 |
| Chapter 15 | Very Small and Far Away | 305 |
| Chapter 16 | Does It Make Sense? | 334 |
| Chapter 17 | Moving Down the Scale | 352 |
| Chapter 18 | And Now the Universe | 372 |
| Chapter 19 | Order and Law | 387 |
| Note A | Hero's Principle | 407 |
| Note B | Fermat's Principle | 408 |
| Note C | Newton's Theorem | 409 |
| Note D | Calculation of the Moon's Period | 411 |
| Note E | The Law of Areas | 412 |
| Note F | Elliptical Orbits | 414 |
| Note G | Derivation of Young's Formula | 417 |
| Note H | Of Time and the River | 418 |
| Note I | The Mass of a Moving Object | 419 |
| Note J | The Two-Slit Experiment in Quantum Mechanics | 420 |
| Note K | Quantum Correlations That Suggest Action at a Distance | 423 |
| Note L | The Troublesome Question of How Things Look | 425 |
| Note M | Theory of the Expanding Universe | 427 |
| Bibliography | 433 | |
| Index | 453 |
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Emma Coleson
reviewed The How and the Why on March 06, 2011
The How and the Why
Comprehensive and interesting. Whenever people tell me they're just "not science people," I suggest The Sleepwalkers and this book to them.
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