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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Telescopes for the Mind | |
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| Cosmological Origins | |
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| We Have Seen But Few of His Works | |
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| Twice into the Same River? | |
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| The Things of the Universe Are Not Sliced Off with a Hatchet | |
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| Atoms and Empty Space | |
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| The Moving Image of Eternity | |
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| The Potency of Place | |
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| He Supposes the Earth to Revolve | |
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| A Geometrical Argument | |
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| No Erratic or Pointless Movement | |
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| Turning the Universe Upside Down | |
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| Ptolemy, Middle Earth, Middle Ages | |
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| The Peculiar Nature of the Universe | |
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| The Weaknesses of the Hypotheses | |
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| Their Peculiar Behavior Confounds Mortals' Minds | |
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| We Consider Time a Thing Created | |
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| From This Point Hang the Heavens | |
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| If a Man Were in the Sky and Could See the Earth Clearly | |
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| A Single Universe in Which Each Star Influences Every Other | |
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| Copernicus to Newton | |
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| Almost Contrary to Common Sense | |
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| The Poetic Structure of the World | |
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| This Art Unfolds the Wisdom of God | |
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| A Star Never Seen Before Our Time | |
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| This Little Dark Star Wherein We Live | |
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| Innumerable Suns, and an Infinite Number of Earths | |
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| Neither Known Nor Observed by Anyone Before | |
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| Galileo and the Geometrization of Astronomical Space | |
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| This Boat Which Is Our Earth | |
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| The Two Books of God Agree With Each Other | |
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| They Hoist the Earth Up and Down Like a Ball | |
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| A World in the Moon | |
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| A Very Liquid Heaven | |
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| The Eternal Silence of These Infinite Spaces | |
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| This Pendent World | |
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| But One Little Family of the Universe | |
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| Into the Celestial Spaces | |
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| Discernible Ends and Final Causes | |
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| The Planetarians, and This Small Speck of Dirt | |
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| Unfurling Newton's Universe | |
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| A Signal of God | |
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| The Beautiful Pre-established Order | |
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| An Event So Glorious to the Newtonian Doctrine of Gravity | |
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| A Voice from the Starry Heavens | |
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| This Most Surprising Zone of Light | |
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| How Fortunate Is This Globe! | |
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| To Become Adequately Copernican | |
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| Laboratories of the Universe | |
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| As Certain as the Planetary Orbits | |
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| The Intelligence of the Watch-Maker | |
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| Must We Then Reject the Infinitude of the Stars? | |
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| The Great Principle That Governs the Universe | |
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| The Unfailing Connection and Course of Events | |
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| The Primordial Particle | |
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| The Shadow! The Shadow! | |
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| Unraveled Starlight | |
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| Astronomy Still Young | |
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| The Universe Re-Imagined | |
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| The Peculiar Interest of Mars | |
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| Cosmical Evolution | |
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| Cosmos Without Peer and Without Price | |
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| Curved Space and Poetry of the Universe | |
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| The Man in the Accelerated Chest | |
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| It Is Not True That "All Is Relative" | |
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| Spacetime Tells Matter How to Move | |
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| The Architecture of the Celestial Mansions | |
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| The Quickening Influence of the Universe | |
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| You Have Broken Newton's Back | |
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| The Realm of the Nebulae | |
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| Driven to Admit Anti-Chance | |
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| Did the Expansion Start from the Beginning? | |
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| This Big Bang Idea | |
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| Beginnings and Ends | |
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| Incomprehensible Magnitude, Unimaginable Darkness | |
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| That All-But-Eternal Crimson Twilight | |
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| The Cosmic Oasis | |
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| The Very Womb of Life | |
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| The Urge to Trace the History of the Universe | |
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| To Transform the Universe on a Cosmological Scale | |
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| The No Boundary Condition | |
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| Prisons of Light | |
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| A Very Lumpy Universe | |
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| A Cosmic Archipelago | |
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| Cosmological Natural Selection | |
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| The Ultimate Free Lunch | |
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| Was There a Big Bang? | |
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| What We Cannot See and Yet Know Must Be There | |
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| Their Extravagant Smallness | |
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| Cosmic Dust-Bunnies | |
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| Mystery at the End of the Universe | |
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| Do the Heavens Declare? | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Copyright Acknowlegments | |
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| Index | |