The Sleepwalkers

CONTENTS

Introduction

Preface

PART
ONE THE HEROIC AGE

I
DAWN

1.
Awakening
.
2.
Ionian
Fever
.

II
THE HARMONY OF THE SPHERES

1.
Pythagoras
of
Samos
.
2.
The
Unifying
Vision
.
3.
"Soft
Stillness
and
the
Night."
4.
Religion
and
Science
Meet
.
5.
Tragedy
and
Greatness
of
the
Pythagoreans
.

III
THE EARTH ADRIFT

1.
Philolaus
and
the
Central
Fire
.
2.
Herakleides
and
the
Sun-Centred
Universe
.
3.
Aristarchus,
the
Greek
Copernicus
.

IV
THE FAILURE OF NERVE

1.
Plato
and
Aristotle
.
2.
Rise
of
the
Circular
Dogma
.
3.
The
Fear
of
Change

V
THE DIVORCE FROM REALITY

1.
Spheres
Within
Spheres
(Eudoxus)
.
2.
Wheels
Within
Wheels:
(Ptolemy)
.
3.
The
Paradox
.
4.
Knowing
and
Un-Knowing
.
5.
The
New
Mythology
.
6.
The
Cubist
Universe
.

Chronological
Table to Part One

PART
TWO DARK INTERLUDE

I
THE RECTANGULAR UNIVERSE

1.
The
City
of
God
.
2.
The
Bridge
to
the
City
.
3.
The
Earth
as
a
Tabernacle
.
4.
The
Earth
is
Round
Again
.

II
THE WALLED-IN UNIVERSE

1.
The
Scale
of
Being
.
2.
The
Age
of
Double-Think
.

III
THE UNIVERSE OF THE SCHOOLMEN

1.
The
Thaw
.
2.
Potency
and
Act
.
3.
The
Weeds
.
4.
Summary
.

Chronological
Table to Part Two

PART
THREE THE TIMID CANON

I
THE LIFE OF COPERNICUS

1.
The
Mystifier
.
2.
Uncle
Laws
.
3.
The
Student
.
4.
Brother
Andreas
.
5.
The
Secretary
.
6.
The
Canon
.
7.
The
Commentariolus.
8.
Rumour
and
Report
.
9.
The
Arrival
of
Rheticus
.
10.
Narratio
Prima
.
11.
Preparations
for
the
Printing
.
12.
The
Scandal
of
the
Preface
.
13.
The
Betrayal
of
Rheticus
.
14.
Bishop
Dantiscus
.
15.
Death
of
Copernicus
.
16.
Death
of
Rheticus
.

II
THE SYSTEM OF COPERNICUS

1.
The
Book
That
Nobody
Read
.
2.
The
Arguments
for
the
Earth's
Motion
.
3.
The
Last
of
the
Aristotelians
.
4.
Genesis
of
the
System
.
5.
The
First
Repercussions
.
6.
The
Delayed
Effect
.

Chronological
Table to Part Three

PART
FOUR THE WATERSHED

I
THE YOUNG KEPLER

1.
Decline
of
a
Family
.
2
Job
.
3.
Orphic
Purge
.
4.
Appointment
.
5.
Astrology
.

II
THE "COSMIC MYSTERY"

1.
The
Perfect
Solids
.
2.
Contents
of
the
Mysterium
.
3.
Back
to
Pythagoras
.

III
GROWING PAINS

1.
The
Cosmic
Cup
.
2.
Marriage
.
3.
Limbering
Up
.
4.
Waiting
for
Tycho
.

IV
TYCHO DE BRAHE

1.
The
Quest
for
Precision
.
2.
The
New
Star
.
3.
Uraniburg
.
4.
Exile
.
5.
Prelude
to
the
Meeting
.

V
TYCHO AND KEPLER

1.
The
Gravity
of
Fate
.
2.
The
Inheritor
.

VI
THE GIVING OF THE LAWS

1.
Astronomia
Nova
.
2.
Opening
Gambits
.
3.
The
First
Assault
.
4.
The
Eight
Minutes
Arc
.
5.
The
Wrong
Law
.
6.
The
Second
Law
.
7.
The
First
Law
.
8.
Some
Conclusions
.
9.
The
Pitfalls
of
Gravity
.
10.
Matter
and
Mind

VII
KEPLER DEPRESSED

I.
Publishing
Difficulties
.
2.
Reception
of
Astronomia
Nova
.
3.
Anticlimax
.
4.
The
Great
News
.

VIII
KEPLER AND GALILEO

1.
A
Digression
on
Mythography
.
2.
Youth
of
Galileo
.
3.
The
Church
and
the
Copernican
System
.
4.
Early
Quarrels
.
5.
The
Impact
of
the
Telescope
.
6.
The
Battle
of
the
Satellites
.
7.
The
Shield
Bearer
.
8.
The
Parting
of
the
Orbits
.