The house of childhood

3-18

Music and hyperspace

19-36

Great books

37-59

Home, Cambridge, Paris

a family

61-82

What's in a circle?

Spinoza, Leibniz, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Keats

85-96

Four master tropes, from Euclid to Leibniz, with Burke

97-111

Periodicity as symmetry in time

housman

113-125

Troping in Italian gardens

Descartes, Wallis, La Hire, Gassendi

129-140

Flow, rest, inertial motion

Wilner, Di Piero, Bonnefoy

141-162

Troping towards the transcendental

Napier, Newton, Leibniz

163-177

Compactification

Randall, Fainlight, Sedakova

181-204

Beyond deduction

from Descartes to Gödel

205-230

Literary cosmology

Plato, Tobin, Major, Turner

231-253

Coda

Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt

255-260