Index of Names, Works, and Concepts

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• Abbey Road Studios — see "First Studio, The"

• acoustic fossil — the durable overtone signature left by every vibrating body; see Chapters 1, 5, 6

• amniotic resonance — Chapter 5

• angels, mathematical — defined; Preface, Coda

• Bach, Johann Sebastian — Chapters 4, 5; Mass in B minor; Goldberg Variations

• Botticelli, Sandro — Part I divider; carried over from Gravity’s Quantum Angels

• boundary conditions, acoustic — Chapter 1

• cathedrals, acoustics of — Chapters 5, 6; Plate V

• cochlea — as logarithmic spiral; Chapter 6, Plate VI

• conservation of suppressed energy — Foreword; Appendix B; Plate VII

• critical line (Riemann) — Chapter 10, Plate III

• Dante Alighieri — referenced throughout; primary source: Divine Comedy

• drone, the — as acoustic fossil; Chapter 5

• DAI (Distributed Artificial Intelligence) — Chapter 7

• ear, anatomy and function — Chapter 6

• energy, information as — Introduction; epigraph

• exoskeleton, mathematical — Chapter 11

• First Studio, the — Chapter 5

• Florence — Introduction; Substrate of Florence

• Fourier analysis, in the cochlea — Chapter 6, Plate VI

• golden ratio (φ) — Chapters 8, 9; Plate II

• gravity, as relationship — Chapter 7

• harmonic series — Chapter 1, Plate I; passim

• Hildegard von Bingen — Chapters 4, 5

• information — defined as incoming energy; Introduction; epigraph

• Inquisition — referenced from Book V; Appendix A

• Kepler, Johannes — Harmonices Mundi; Chapter 8

• logarithmic spiral — Chapter 9, Plate II

• luminous leap — Chapter 1; defined

• Medici, the — Appendix A; cross-reference Gravity’s Quantum Angels

• micro-ring resonators — Chapter 10

• modes, standing-wave — Plate V

• neuroplasticity — Chapter 1, Chapter 6

• nautilus — Chapter 9, Plate II

• overtone series — see "harmonic series"

• Oakeshott, Michael — Appendix A

• Pythagoras — Chapter 8

• prayer, as frequency-tuning — Preface, Chapter 1

• Plewniak, Stefan — Chapter 16

• Radulović, Nemanja — Chapter 15

• Riemann, Bernhard — Chapter 10, Plate III

• resonance — passim; defined Chapter 1

• Ryman Auditorium — Chapter 10 opening

• string theory — Chapter 1

• suppressed energy — Foreword; Appendix B; Plate VII

• tonotopic mapping — Chapter 6, Plate VI

• Vivaldi, Antonio — Chapter 2; L’estro armonico

• waveform vs. spectrum — Plate IV; Chapter 6

• zeta function, Riemann — Chapter 10, Plate III

• Zinc Flash, the — Chapter 5

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Cross-references in italics point to a sibling volume in the Two Renaissances cycle. Plate numbers (I–VII) correspond to the illustration plates bound into the body of the text.