Abraham, Laurie, 189
actuarial tables, 140
Adam and Eve, 10, 93-94
Ames, Williams, 131-135
Aquinas, Thomas, 59, 80-82
architects, 47-48, Imhotep, 8, Palladio, 46-47
architecture, 19, Roman, 24-26, Basilicas, 38-42
Aristotle, 15-16
Armada, Spanish, 112
Bacon, Francis, 126-131
Bacon, Roger, 59-61
Berry, Thomas, 190
The Black Death, 64-69
Black, Dustin Lance, 193-195
Blake, William, 189-190, 194
Boccaccio, Giovanni, The
Decameron, 64-66, 70, 73-75
Boorstin, Daniel J., The Discoverers, 100, 101-103, 106
Brunelleschi, 96-97 and see King
Buddha, Gautama, 11-12
Burns, Ken, 187
the calendar, 6, liturgical, 32
Campbell, Joseph, 1
carpe diem, 27-31, 68
census-taking, 141-142
Cervantes, Miguel, Don Quixote, 122-125
the charismatic, 8-9
Chaucer/Wife of Bath i, 76-80, 82-89
Chaucer, ii, 100, 103, and see Wilcockson
Clement VI, Pope, 68
Cohn, Samuel K. Jr., 107
Columbus, Christopher, 101
Confucius, 10
Conrad, Joseph, 186
Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe, 143-160
Democritus, 15
Dewey, John, 185
Dionysus, 20
Djoser, 8
Donatello, 95-96
Dürer, Albrecht, 106
Eastwood, Clint, “Changeling,” ii-iii
Ecclesiastes, 10-11
Eliot, T.S., i
Elizabeth I, Queen, 111-117
Epicurus, 15, 17
Essex, Earl of 112-113
Eyewitness testimony, ii
Fortuna, 7, 63
Galen, 103-106
Galileo, iii
Gimpel, Jean, The Cathedral Builders, 37, 43-45
Goodman, Lenn Evan, see Tufayl.
Greek Gods, 9
Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, see Tufayl
Helen, 24-25
Henry, Prince of Portugal, 101, 102-103, 18
Holt, Jim, 187
Homer, The Iliad, 13, The Odyssey, 14
the Hopi, 21
Horace, Odes, 27-30
The Hundred Years War, 63
Huntington Beach, 23
Jason, see Medea
Jobs, Steve, 187
Joyce, James, 185
Kahneman, Daniel, see Jim Holt
Karr, Mary, Lit, 195-197
Keats, John, 186
King, Ross, Brunelleschi’s Dome, 90
knapping (flaking stone), 1
Kundalini Yoga, 20-21
Lalla Ded, 21-22
Leonardo da Vinci, 104-106
Locke, John, 137-138
Martineau, Harriet, 168-183
Masaccio, Tommaso, 94-95
Mausolus, 8
Medea, 18
Menelaus, 24-25
Miller, Florence Fenwick, 168-183
mindfulness, 11-12
Mondino de Luzzi, 104
Montaigne, Michel de, 107-111
Moser, Benjamin, “Not Rembrandt, But,” 98-99
Moyers, Bill, 1
Myrow, Rachael, 197-198
Newton, Isaac, 138-139
Nicolelis, Miguel, 185
NPR, airplane mechanics, i, “Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” 185, “Fresh Air,” 193, “The California
Report,” 197
of Ockham, William, 61-62
Oedipus, 17-18
Ortigia, 19
Orwell, George, iii
Pandora, 10
Paul the Apostle, 20, 31, 33-37, 83, 194
Peasants Revolt, 68-69
Plato, 14-15
Poundstone, Paula, 185
prowess, 13, 26, 63
Ptolemy, 101, 104
Qin Shi Huang, 8
the random, 7
Riess, Adam, 185
The Royal Society of London, 136
Sennett, Richard, The Craftsman, 2
Shakespeare, William, 118-122
Siebert, Charles, “Watching Whales,” 21-22
the Sioux, 21
Smith, Pamela H., The Body of the Artisan, 5
Somerset, Anne, Elizabeth I, 111
speechifying, 13-14, 118-122
surveyors, 140-141
Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver’s Travels, 161-167
Thoreau, Henry David, 168, 191, 192-193
Trojan Horse, 24-26
Tuchman, Barbara, A Distant Mirror, 63-64, 68, 111
Tufayl, Ibn, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, 48-58, 137
Veltman, Dr. Kim H., 104-106
van Eyck, Jan, 97
Vasari, Giorgio, Lives of the Artists, 95
Venice, 32, 68
Vernacchio, Al, see Laurie Abraham
Vesalius, Andrea, 106-107
Virgil, The Aeneid, 25
Wainwright, Martin, “Desert Island Scripts,” 137
Walker, Paul Robert, The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance, 97
Wexler, Bruce, Brain and Culture, 3-4, 191
Wilcockson, Colin, The Canterbury Tales, 69-75
Wilson, Frank R., The Hand, 21
Yeats, William Butler, 26