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SYNERGETICSExplorations in the Geometry of Thinking

by

R. Buckminster Fuller

in collaboration with E. J. Applewhite

First Published by Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc. 1975, 1979.

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Synergetics is copyrighted 1997 by the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller.

All

rights reserved. Reproduction or use of text or pictorial content in any for profit manner is

prohibited without express permission. Contact the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller for

further information. Address:

Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller 708

Gravenstein Highway, North #188 Sebastopol,

CA 95472

Synergetics

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Acknowledgment

Acknowledgment is gratefully made to John Entenza, the Graham Foundation, Hugh

Kenner, Brooke Maxwell, Shoji Sadao, and Edwin Schlossberg for their assistance in theproduction of this book.

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Table of Contents

Collaboration by E. J. Applewhite

DedicationScenarios

Explicit

Preface by A. Leob

Moral

A Note To The Reader

Wellspring

Humans In Universe

100.00 Synergy

200.00 Synergetics

300.00 Universe

400.00 System

500.00 Conceptuality

600.00 Structure

700.00 Tensegrity

800.00 Operational Mathematics

900.00 Modelability

1000.00 Omnitopology

1100.00 Constant Zenith Projection

1200.00 Numerology

Afterpiece

32 Color Plates

Evolution of Synergetics: a portfolio of six drawings made by the authorin 1948

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Index

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A Note on Collaboration

The discoveries, concepts, vocabulary, phraseology-every word- and entire writing style of

this book originate exclusively in the mind of R. Buckminster Fuller. My role has been

strictly editorial: identifying, sorting out, and organizing the presentation of five decades of

Fuller's thinking, continually confronting the author with himself.

E. J. A.

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Scenarios

Each scenario is a narrative sequence of geometrical exposition written-and intended

to be read-as a separate continuity.

Child as Explorer 100.01-100.63

Nature in a Corner 260.00-269.07

Complex Humans 311.11-311.18

Metaphysics 326.00-326.50

Pattern 505.50-505.83

Space 526.10-526.35

Spherical Gravity 646.10-646.22

Tensegrity 790.10-795.11

Annihilation 935.00-938.16

*Demass Model 986.00-986.874

Multiplication by Division 987.00-987.416

Geometry of Nine 1013.00-1013.64

Involvement Field 1033.00-1033.92

Minimum Topology 1044.00-1044.13

Physical Periodicities 1052.50-1052.71

Growth and Decay 1053.80-1053.85

Geometry of Two 1070.00-1077.11

Typewriter 1130.00-1133.04

* The author suggests that beginning readers should start their explorations at the Demass

Model: it presents a broad survey of the evolution of his geometry as well as a model of

Einstein's equation.

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