| BUCKMINSTER FULLER BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| BOOKS, BOOKLETS, MONOGRAPHS, ETC, BY BUCKY | |
| Everything I Know | |
| Log by Ed Applewhite; January 20-February 1, 1975 | |
| Transcription of 43 Hours of Lectures by JoAnne Ishimine | |
| Video/Audio Taped in the Bell Telephone Studios, 1 Parkway, Philadelphia, PA, USA | |
| Participants: Applewhite, Ed; Bergman, Janet; Gabel, Medard; Hoare, Jeffery; Howard, Andy; | |
| Macmillan, Editors; Peckham, Nicholas; Shambaugh, Cynde; | |
| ___?___, Andy; __?__, Bob; ___?___, Connie; ___?___, Jack; ___?___, Timothy | |
| Video online at : conversationswithbucky.pbworks.com | |
| Text online at Buckminster Fuller Institute-CA |
See: http://bfi.org |
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| Introduction by Buckminster Fuller Institute-CA Staff, Los Angeles, CA (1990) | |||||
| - | Session #2 | Session #3 | Session #4 | Session #5 | Session #6 |
| Session #7 | Session #8 | Session #9 | Session #10 | Session #11 | Session #12 |
| Note: 24-Hour Time; Yellow indicates sections as established by Applewhite | |||||
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18:26 |
BORN NAKED, HELPLESS & IGNORANT: (Tape 1a: 1hr 3 min) |
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18:2? |
Programmed Urges: Hunger, Thirst, Sex |
| 18:2? | Trial & Error |
| 18:2? | No Words; No Experience |
| 18:2? | Rate of Information Multiplying During One Lifetime |
| 18:2? | Humanity Is Emerging into a New Relationship with Universe |
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18:30 |
Womb of Permitted Ignorance: |
| 18:3? | Divided Humanity vs Totality of Humanity |
| 18:3? | Buckminster Fuller's Father's Trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina, India re Leather Importing Business |
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18:34 |
English Poet Kipling: East Is East: |
| 18:3? | 1895, Marconi; 1898, Electron; 1906, Wireless; 1909, North Pole; 1911, South Pole |
| 18:3? | Paper Darts--Impossible to Fly; 1902, Wright Brothers |
| 18:3? | R Buckminster Fuller Age 23: Voice Radio (1922) |
| 18:3? | R Buckminster Fuller Age 38: Experimental TV (1933; CBS, Gilbert Seldes) |
| 18:3? | R Buckminster Fuller Age 45: First USA TV (1940) |
| 18:3? | Transistors, Satellites; Human Vanity |
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18:40 |
"Natural" Used to Mean Inherently Remote as Groups: |
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18:4? |
First Autos Unreliable |
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18:44 |
Lindberg Flight: Allegra Fuller's Baby Carriage in Lincoln Park, Chicago: Alexandra Fuller in Riverdale, NY |
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18:?? |
Airplane More Normal than Bird (La Guardia Field Traffic) |
| 18:?? | Large Pattern Changes Not Anticipated |
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18:51 |
World Awareness of Mutual Troubles: |
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18:5? |
Nature Permits It |
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18:58 |
Review of How I Self-Discipline Myself to Do My Own Thinking: |
| 18:5? | (Slide: Galaxy) Orion's Belt. Betelgeuse |
| 18:5? | 10-Mile Aberration vs 8,000-Mile Earth |
| 18:5? | Man Invisible on Polished Steel Globe |
| 18:5? | Nebula Expanding at 3,000,000 Miles Per Hour |
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18:59 |
11.5-Billion Mile Spherical Information Sweepout |
| 19:00 | BRAIN VS MIND: |
| 19:0? | Regularities of Astronomical Orbits |
| 19:0? | Calculating Periodicities |
| 19:05 | Roman Numerals vs Arabic |
| 19:07 | Abacus: No Sheep: Cipher: Secrecy |
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19:?? |
Navigator-Priests. Temporal Power |
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19:12 |
Copernicus & Tycho Brahe: |
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19:1? |
Pie-Shaped Sweepout of Equal Areas |
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19:17 |
Newton: First & Second Laws: |
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19:?? |
Planetary Relations "Between", But Not "Of" |
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19:22 |
Sequence of Unpredicteds |
| 19:23 | SYNERGY: COLLEGE AUDIENCES: |
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19:24 |
Generalized Principles: Relationships Between |
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19:2? |
A Priori Design of Universe |
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19:29-19:50 |
Break (21 minutes) |
| 19:51 | Society Content with Parts & Specialization (Tape 1b: 1hr 20 min) |
| 19:54 | Syn-Ergy vs En-Ergy: |
| 19:5? | "Syn" Is the Integrating Prefix |
| 19:5? | Review: Unpredicteds Sequence |
| 19:5? | Synergy of Synergies |
| 19:56 | THREE GRAND SYNERGETIC STRATEGIES: |
| 19:5? | (A) Greek Triangle, Side & Angle: Right Triangles |
| 19:5? | (B) Constant Relative Abundance of Lines, Areas & Crossings. Euler. Working from the Whole to the Parts |
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19:59 |
All Visual Experiences May Be Reduced to Faces, Lines & Areas (+ the Number 1) But a Surface Is Polyhedral (Ergo, + the #r 2); Coring |
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20:01 |
(C) Phase Rule: Willard Gibbs; Third Synergetic Strategy Works from the Whole > Parts |
| 20:0? | Building Block System of Education (Parts > Whole) |
| 20:04 | UNIVERSE: |
| 20:0? | All Definitions Must Be Experimental |
| 20:0? | Eddington; Ernst Mach (Physicist from Vienna) |
| 20:07 | Boole: Reductio ad Absurdum |
| 20:10 | Einstein Dismissal of Metaphysical |
| 20:1? | Physical Is Energy |
| 20:1? | Brownian Movement |
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20:13 |
Priestley: Lavoisier (Bell Jar Experiments) |
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20:17 |
Steam Engine > Ship > Integrated Resources of Earth > Waterocean World > Wealth Patronage of Science > Royal Society: |
| 20:19 | Second Law of Thermodynamics; First Law of Thermodynamics (British Thermal Units = BTU) |
| 20:21 | Instant Universe: Roemer (Astronomer: Light Has Speed) |
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20:23 |
Big Dipper: |
| 20:2? | Live Shows Taking Place 75, 100 & 200 Years Ago |
| 20:2? | At 6.5 Trillion Miles a Year: Andromeda 1,000,000 Years Ago |
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20:25 |
Scenario: |
| 20:2? | Partially Overlapping |
| 20:2? | Boltzmann Pulsing |
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20:27 |
Rubber Glove: |
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20:2? |
Annihilation |
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20:30 |
Single Frame: |
| 20:3? | Butterfly |
| 20:3? | Physical & Metaphysical |
| 20:35 | THINKING = CONCEPTUALITY: |
| 20:?? | Thinking Out Loud |
| 20:?? | Lags in Recall Rates |
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20:42 |
Understanding Means Finding the Relationships |
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20:4? |
Irrelevancies: Parting the Strands |
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20:45 |
Structure: |
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20:4? |
Fourness & Sixness |
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20:47 |
Necklace |
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20:?? |
Triangle as Minimum Polygon |
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20:?? |
Minimum System: Limit Case |
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20:52 |
Angle Is an Angle Independent of the Length of Its Edges |
| 20:5? | Conceptuality Independent of Size |
| 20:5? | Grand Strategy of Thinking |
| 20:5? | Understanding Is Structural |
| 20;5? | Pattern Stabilization = Triangle |
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20:55 |
TETRAHEDRON: |
| 20:?? | Angular Takeouts: 720 Degrees |
| 2?:?? | Greek Sphere: Invalid Definition |
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21:02 |
Platonic Solids: Cheese Polyhedra |
| 21:0? | Cube vs Dodecahedron vs Tetrahedron |
| 21:0? | Empty Sizeless Tetrahedron |
| 21:0? | Action--Reaction--Resultant |
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21:07 |
Precession: "Z" Form; Proton, Neutron; Planck's Constant; Quantum |
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21:11-21:25 |
Break (14 min) |
| 21:26 | GRAND STRATEGY OF PROBLEM SOLVING: (Tape 1c: 1hr 3 min) |
| 21:?? | Three Prime Structural Systems: Tetrahedron, Octahedron & Icosahedron |
| 21:?? | Inside-Outing |
| 21:?? | Nestability |
| 21:?? | Dimpling |
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21:36 |
Arithmetical Accounting |
| 21:?? | XYZ Coordinates: Quadrant in Center of Octahedron |
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21:42 |
CHART OF TETRAHEDRAL POWERING: |
| 21:?? | Second Powering: Squaring & Cubing |
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21:55 |
VECTOR EQUILIBRIUM (VE): |
| 2?:?? | |
| 22:06 | VISIBLE STEAM VS INVISIBLE ELECTROMAGNETICS: |
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22:0? |
Gap Between Science & the Humanities: |
| 22:0? | C P Snow |
| 22:0? | Science "Blind Flying on Instruments" |
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22:08 |
Nature Has No Separate Departments |
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22:10 |
Precession |
| 22:11 | LEAVING VECTORAL GEOMETRY & GOING ON TO THE LARGEST PATTERN INTERTRANSFORMABILITY: |
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22:13 |
Mercator Map: (Slide) |
| 22:15 | Dymaxion Waterocean World (Slide) |
| 22:19 | Outlaw Area: Sovereigns & Pirates |
| 22:21 | Dymaxion Airocean World: World II (Slide) |
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22:25 |
Population (Slide): |
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22:2? |
Man Inherently Integrated vs Inherently Divided |
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22:26 |
Man Born Ignorant |
| 22:2? | 100,000 Word Tools in the Dictionary |
| 22:2? | Grand Strategy of Problem Solving |
| 22:2? | Why Are Humans Here? |
| 22:2? | Humans Are Here for Problems |
| 22:2? | Sun Is Not Saying "Earth Has Not Paid the Bill" |
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22:29 |
End (4 hrs 3 min including breaks) |
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