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Two Renaissances · Book V · KW Norton

Gravity's Quantum Angels

A Tribunal for the Second Renaissance

A young woman in a doorway says the Pope owns AI. The book takes her question to court: the architects of the first Renaissance, the Medici and Rome, the Atlantic crossing, and the field in which the Socratic Mirror is offered back to every reader.

Free reading edition. Twelve chapters in four parts, with preface, coda, and witnesses index. Chapters Seven and Twelve are still in outline form.

Front Matter

  1. Dedication

    Dedication

  2. Epigraph

    Epigraph

  3. Preface

    Preface

    Why the Hell Another Book

  4. Founding Hypothesis

    Founding Hypothesis

    Chaos → Trigger → Restored Harmony

Part I — The Architects

  1. Chapter One

    Dante, Chief Architect of the Quantum Philosophy

  2. Chapter Two

    Quantum Angels

  3. Chapter Three

    Leonardo — His Own Continent

  4. Chapter Four

    Michelangelo Emergence

Part II — The Refill

  1. Chapter Five

    The Medici Vacuum: Rome's First Refill, and Its Second

  2. Chapter Six

    Rome I and Rome II: A Side-by-Side Reading

  3. Chapter Seven

    The 1% Reinvents Itself: Feudalism → Medici → Techno-Feudalism

Part III — The Atlantic Wound

  1. Chapter Eight

    The Inquisition Sails West

  2. Chapter Nine

    The Inquisition Against the Question

Part IV — The Field

  1. Chapter Ten

    The Socratic Mirror

  2. Chapter Eleven

    The Intentional Field

  3. Chapter Twelve

    Primum Non Nocere — The Oath

Back Matter

  1. Coda

    Coda — Gravity's Quantum Angels

  2. Witnesses Index

    Witnesses Index