BUCKYVERSE

Live Book Squad

(The mobile "shelf" (footlocker) of B. Fuller as of September, 1949)

Attractively reliable acquaintances whose companionship we delight to keep. Not a methodically chosen expert's list, but the self-accrediting roster of those books we happen to have met as a sequence of maturing experience and which have happened since to keep us natural company.

Alternately preoccupying, they remain on the squad, some to instruct, some to destruct, some to elucidate, some to elude, some to flex, some to perplex, some to affirm, some to dissolve, some to annoy, some to challenge; all to interact upon one another, all to be reread, all to be comparisoned to personal experience, all to stand in readiness as contributors to the evolving conscious totality,—and all to integrate in the gestation of new thoughts and concepts of our native responsibility, that are ever regeneratively exciting as they trend to reveal only by the functioning of the universe,—discovered in exquisite principle, at first hand,—and with all the attendant clairvoyant awareness of living momentarily in original all time event.

That many, few or none may have been here in universe to witness and know this event and its tantalizing significance is at first of no moment. It is the awareness that counts, awareness of the incisive, sublime and comprehensive quality of truth.

Thereafter, we may learn that many others have been here too, or we may be happily suspicious that none, or but a rare few have witnessed; but it makes no difference, for having been there ourselves, we may employ competently and confidently the principle discovered (or rediscovered) with other principles already discovered in like manner which waited only upon the latest event to effect further synchronization of man's consciously anticipating intellectual life with the swiftly and omnidirectionally woven experience stuff, the superficial reality of the high frequency impingement of recurrent verities,—infinitely propogated from out the limitless plurality of individual convergences of principles.

Bibliography

  1. Marcus Aurelius. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. The Peter Pauper Press.

  2. V. Gordon Childe. What Happened in History?. Pelican Books / Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex. 1949. Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, London Univ..

  3. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. On Growth and Form. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1948. The Macmillan Company, N.Y..

  4. James Jeans. The Growth of Physical Sciences. Cambridge University Press and Macmillan Company, New York. 1948. 1946 manuscript; galley proofed by author before death.

  5. Gretchen Warren. Art, Nature and Education. Privately Published, Cambridge, Mass.. 1943. Issued at Fogg Museum, Harvard University; March 20, 1943.

  6. Arnold Toynbee. The Prospects of Western Civilization. Columbia University Press, New York. 1949.

  7. Alfred Korzybski. Science and Sanity. Science Press Print Company, Lancaster, Pa.. 1933.

  8. Halford J. Mackinder. Democratic Ideals and Reality. Henry Holt and Co., New York. 1942. Basic Works on Geopolitics.

  9. Stuart Chase. The Proper Study of Mankind. Harper and Bros., New York.

  10. H. G. Wells. New World Order. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1940.

  11. Lancelot L. Whyte. The Next Development in Man and Everyman Looks Forward. Henry Holt, New York.

  12. Clarence A. Mills. Climate Makes the Man. Harper and Brothers, New York. 1942. Professor of Organism Medicine, University of Cincinnati.

  13. Gunther Roeder. Short Egyptian Grammar. Yale University Press, New Haven.

  14. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Climate and Man. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.. 1943.

  15. Dmitri Merejkowski. The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci. The Modern Library, New York. Trans. by B. G. Guerney.

  16. P. A. M. Dirac. The Principles of Quantum Mechanics. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

  17. F. S. C. Northrop. East Meets West. Yale University Press, New Haven.

  18. David Hilbert and Stephan Cohn-Vossen. Anschauliche Geometrie. Dover Publications, New York. 1932. 1780 Broadway.

  19. H. B. Phillips. Analytical Geometry and Calculus. 2nd ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York. 1946. Professor of Mathematics, MIT.

  20. Hermann L. Slobin and Marvin R. Holt. A First Course in Calculus. Farrar and Rinehart, New York. 1935. University of New Hampshire.

  21. Harvey Alexander Simmons. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. John Wiley and Sons, New York. 1945. Professor of Mathematics, Northwestern University.

  22. Aristotle D. Michal. Matrix and Tensor Calculus. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. 1947. Professor of Mathematics.

  23. Hermann Weyl. Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science. Princeton University Press, Princeton. Group Theory.

  24. Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins. What is Mathematics?. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1948. Dr. Courant, Dept. of Mathematics, N.Y.U..

  25. Tobias Dantzig. Number, the Language of Science. Macmillan Company, New York. 1935.

  26. Edward Kasner and James Newman. Mathematics and the Imagination. Simon and Schuster, New York.

  27. M. W. De Laubenfels. Pageant of Life Science. Prentice Hall, New York.

  28. A. S. Eddington. The Nature of the Physical World. Scribner's, New York.

  29. George Gamow. One, Two, Three… Infinity. Viking Press, New York. 1948. Professor of Theoretical Physics, George Washington University.

  30. J. W. Dunne. An Experiment with Time. A. and C. Black, London. 1929.

  31. Linus Pauling. General Chemistry. W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco. 1948. Professor of Chemistry, Caltech.

  32. O. R. Frisch. Meet the Atom. A. A. Wyn, New York. 1947. Introduction by Dr. Lise Meitner.

  33. Selig Hecht. Explaining the Atom. Viking Press, New York. 1947. Late Professor of Biophysics, Columbia University.

  34. Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld. The Evolution of Physics. Simon and Schuster, New York. 1938. 1942 ed..

  35. James B. Conant. On Understanding Science. Yale University Press, New Haven.

  36. Albert Einstein. Relativity, the Special and General Theory. Hartsdale House, New York. 1947. Translated and published 1947; orig. 1914, 1920; SC. American, April.

  37. L. A. Mac Coll. Geometric Aspects of Relativistic Dynamics. Bell Telephone System.

  38. F. C. Phillips. An Introduction to Crystallography. Longmans Green and Company, London. 1946. Dept. of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Cambridge.

  39. Florian Cajori. Newton's Principia: A Revision of Motte's Translation. University of California Press, Berkeley.

  40. J. W. N. Sullivan. The Limitations of Science. The New American Library, New York. 1948.

  41. Alfred North Whitehead. Science and the Modern World. Mentor Books, New York. 1948. Reprint.

  42. A. J. McConnell. Application of Absolute Differential Calculus. Macmillan Company, New York. Blackie and Son, agents.

  43. T. N. Whitehead. Introduction to Atomic Spectrum. McGraw-Hill, New York.

  44. P. W. Bridgman. The Philosophy of Modern Physics and Operational Procedures. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass..

  45. Henri Poincaré. Foundation of Science. Science Press, Lancaster, Pa.. North Queen and McGovern Streets.

  46. William George. Scientists in Action. Emerson Books, New York.

  47. Joseph Larmor. Ether and Matter. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

  48. Norbert Wiener. Cybernetics. John Wiley and Sons, New York. 1948.

  49. Werner Heisenberg. The Uncertainty Principle. n.p.. ``Two Lectures'' at Cambridge.

  50. Max Born. Atomic Physics. Macmillan Company, New York. Blackie and Son.

  51. John von Neumann. Theory of Games. Princeton University Press, Princeton. 1944.

  52. Philipp Frank. Modern Science and Its Philosophy. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass..

  53. Matila Ghyka. The Geometry of Art and Life. Scribner and Sons, New York. Sneed and Ward, N.Y..

  54. Jakob Jahnke. The Principles of New Energy Mechanics. Philosophical Library, New York.

  55. C. H. Waddington. The Scientific Attitude. Pelican Books, Harmondsworth.

  56. Symposium on Teleological Organisms of the New York Academy of Sciences.

  57. Erwin Schrödinger. What is Life?. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1944.

  58. William Hume-Rothery. Electrons, Atoms, Metals and Alloys. Louis Cassirer and Company, London.

  59. H. A. Bethe. Elementary Nuclear Theory. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 1947. Professor of Physics, Cornell University.

  60. Georg von Vega. Logarithmic Tables of Numbers and Trigonometric Functions to Seven Places. Revised and enlarged ed. D. Van Nostrand Company, New York. 1948. 1794/1847; translated by Dr. Bremiker; revised by Dr. L. F. Fischer, University of St. Andrews.

  61. United States Naval Institute. Dutton's Navigation and Nautical Astronomy. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C..

  62. United States Naval Institute. Bowditch's Practical Navigator. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C..

  63. United States Naval Institute. Knight's Seamanship. United States Naval Institute, Annapolis.

  64. United States Naval Institute. U.S. Naval Ordnance: Theories of Interior and Exterior Ballistics. United States Naval Institute, Annapolis.

  65. Ovid W. Eshbach. Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 1936. Northwestern University.

  66. Robert Thurston Kent. Kent's Mechanical Engineers' Handbook. 11th ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York.

  67. Frank E. Kidder and Harry Parker. Kidder-Parker Architects' and Builders' Handbook. 18th ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 1948. Professor of Architectural Construction, Univ. of Penn..

  68. Erik Oberg and Franklin D. Jones. Machinery's Handbook. The Industrial Press, New York. 1946.

  69. Random House. American College Dictionary. Random House, New York. 1948.

Published by B. Fuller

  1. R. Buckminster Fuller. Nine Chains to the Moon. J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia. 1938. ``An Adventure Story of Thought''; in print 1949.

  2. R. Buckminster Fuller. Designing in a New Industry. Fuller Research Foundation, Forest Hills, N.Y.. 6 Burns Street; reprints of Fortune article on Fuller House; To Engineers of Fuller Houses, Inc..

  3. R. Buckminster Fuller. Earth, Inc.. Fuller Research Foundation, Forest Hills, N.Y.. Address to University of Kansas, Architectural and Engineering Schools; chart of historical curve of science and technology.

  4. R. Buckminster Fuller. Fluid Geography. American Neptune. 1944. Dymaxion Projection (pat.) of world map; first published in Life magazine, March 1943.

  5. R. Buckminster Fuller. The Comprehensive Designer. Fuller Research Foundation, Chicago. Institute of Design, Chicago.

  6. R. Buckminster Fuller. Total Thinking. Fuller Research Foundation, Black Mountain, N.C.. Black Mountain College, N. Carolina.

  7. R. Buckminster Fuller. Design for Survival, Plus. Fuller Research Foundation, Chicago. Illinois Institute of Technology.

  8. R. Buckminster Fuller. Preview of Building 1950--2000. Fuller Research Foundation, Ann Arbor. University of Michigan.

  9. R. Buckminster Fuller. Energetic Geometry. Fuller Research Foundation, Forest Hills, N.Y.. 1944. Private publication, 200 copies; No copies available.

  10. R. Buckminster Fuller. 4D, Time Lock. Fuller Research Foundation, Forest Hills, N.Y.. 1927. Private edition, 200 copies; preamble to Dymaxion undertakings; outline for ``Industrialized Reproducible Dwellings and Shelter''; no copies available.

  11. R. Buckminster Fuller. Shelter magazine. Shelter. 1932. Spring and Fall editions; copies available from Fuller Research Foundation.

  12. R. Buckminster Fuller. No More Second Hand God'' and The Epic of Industrialization''. 1940. Typescript; completed book of ventilated prose'' and mental mouthfuls'' (approximately poetry).

  13. R. Buckminster Fuller. I Figure. 1941. Typescript; short book on major reorientation in the Housing Arts and Economics.

  14. R. Buckminster Fuller. Machine Tools, 1940; Harvard, 1917, 1941; What Are We Going to Do with All This When the War Is Over?, 1942. 1942. At request of Henry Kaiser.