Out of Order: 5000 Years of Chaos and Cosmographics

A book MS in progress by Ralph Abraham

Preface

This document is a set of lecture notes for a workshop in Florence, June, 2001. Also, it might serve as the outline for a book. Its present form is an outline and telegram. Graphics and expansion of the text will follow eventually. The entire project was launched at the wedding of Courtney Sale Ross and Anders Holst in Florence, May 2000, where I gave two lectures at the Laurenciana: one on Ficino and another on Galileo. Their merger and extension up to the present, and connection with the Chaos Revolution, became this book.
Revd by Ralph H Abraham, 16 Apr 2001