Bibliography

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• Albert Camus

  The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

  Translated by Anthony Bower. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.

  The manuscript cites p. 22; the edition-specific page has not been checked here.

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• Charles Darwin

  The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–1882

  Unexpurgated edition edited by Nora Barlow. London: Collins, 1958.

  The manuscript distinguishes the family-edited 1887 publication from Barlow’s restored text. Quotations were checked against Project Gutenberg eBook 2010; this entry identifies the restored edition, not an asserted page match.

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• Charles Darwin

  The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits

  London: John Murray, 1881.

  Named in the Darwin chapter; no page supplied.

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• Charles Dickens

  A Tale of Two Cities

  London: Chapman and Hall, 1859.

  The ending alludes to Book the First, chapter I, “The Period,” opening sentence; the author’s paragraph is not a verbatim quotation.

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• Charles E. McClelland

  The German Experience of Professionalization: Modern Learned Professions and Their Organizations from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Hitler Era

  Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. x + 253 pp.

  Corrected monograph citation. It does not contain the previously supplied chapter “The Prussian System: Origins and Transmission.”

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• Eric Hoffer

  The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951.

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• Erwin Schrödinger

  My View of the World

  Translated by Cecily Hastings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964.

  English publication details identify the named work; the manuscript specifies no edition or page.

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• Erwin Schrödinger

  What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell

  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944.

  Supplied pp. 68–75 remain unchecked. The manuscript now uses “order from disorder.”

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• Geoffrey Cocks and Konrad H. Jarausch, editors

  German Professions, 1800–1950

  Oxford University Press, 1990.

  Named only in the correction note as a possible source of the earlier conflation, not as evidence for the chapter’s argument.

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• Gregory P. Wegner

  Prussian Volksschulen through American Eyes: Two Perspectives on Curriculum and Teaching from the 1890s

  In German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917, edited by Henry Geitz, Jürgen Heideking and Jürgen Herbst. Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 59–68.

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• Henry Geitz, Jürgen Heideking and Jürgen Herbst, editors

  German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917

  Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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• Horace Mann / Massachusetts Board of Education

  Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Education; Together with the Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board

  Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1844.

  Mann authored the secretary’s report. Supplied pp. 68–110 remain unverified.

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• Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers

  Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature

  London: Verso Books, 2018.

  The manuscript cites pp. 177–185 in the supplied edition; these pages remain unchecked. Human-choice applications are the author’s interpretation, not an experimental result from the book.

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• James Joyce

  Finnegans Wake

  London: Faber and Faber, 1939.

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• Jean-Paul Sartre

  Existentialism Is a Humanism

  Translated by Carol Macomber. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

  The manuscript cites p. 29; the edition-specific page has not been checked here.

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• KW Norton

  Don’t Fear the 21st Century Renaissance: Become the Renaissance

  Free site manuscript; no print imprint or edition date is supplied in this book.

  Chapter Three: Ariadne’s Thread; literary code breakers.

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• KW Norton

  Quantum Constructionism

  Free site manuscript; no print imprint or edition date is supplied in this book.

  Chapter Nine: “I Know Not Seems”: Dangerous Speech & the Techno-Hamlets.

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• KW Norton

  The Emergent Universe: The 12 Minimums

  Free site manuscript; no print imprint or edition date is supplied in this book.

  Minimum X and Minimum XII are quoted.

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• KW Norton

  The Widening Gyre

  Free site manuscript; no print imprint or edition date is supplied in this book.

  Chapters Five and Nine are referenced.

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• Karl-Ernst Jeismann

  American Observations Concerning the Prussian Educational System in the Nineteenth Century

  In German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917, edited by Henry Geitz, Jürgen Heideking and Jürgen Herbst. Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 21–42.

  Corrected author, collection and year from the book’s checked source note.

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• Konrad H. Jarausch

  The Unfree Professions: German Lawyers, Teachers, and Engineers, 1900–1950

  Oxford University Press, 1990.

  Named only in the correction note as another possible source of the earlier conflation.

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• Max Planck

  Where Is Science Going?

  Translated by James Murphy. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1932.

  Named in the manuscript for the chapters on causation and free will; no page pinpoint supplied.

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• Thomas Pynchon

  Gravity’s Rainbow

  New York: Viking Press, 1973.

  The manuscript describes paranoia and anti-paranoia as a central tension, not a measured thermodynamic allocation.

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• Victor Cousin

  Report on the State of Public Instruction in Prussia

  Translated by Sarah Austin. London: Effingham Wilson, 1834.

  Supplied pp. 120–145 and p. 128 were checked and do not support the attributed Prussian mechanics. Relevant passages: pp. 4–7 onward (school degrees), 25–30 (attendance), around 60–64 (seminaries). The 1819 text is a draft, not an enacted comprehensive law.

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• Werner Heisenberg

  Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958.

  First English publication; the manuscript names the work but gives no quotation page.

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• William Shakespeare

  Hamlet

  First quarto: London, 1603; second quarto: London, 1604/1605.

  No modern edition is specified. Quoted passages include Act I, scene 2; Act II, scene 2; and Act III, scene 2.

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• William Shakespeare

  King Lear

  First quarto: London, 1608; also collected in the First Folio, 1623.

  The manuscript discusses the opening love test; no edition or page is specified.

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Articles, letters, songs and historical records

• Albert Einstein

  Letter to Max Born, 4 December 1926

  Correspondence; no collected edition is specified.

  The dice quotation appears in the quantum-pioneers chapter.

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• Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen

  Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

  Physical Review 47 (1935), pp. 777–780.

  The manuscript refers to the 1935 EPR paper.

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• Authors not specified in the manuscript

  Brain power

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (2021).

  Incomplete supplied citation; authors, article identifier and pinpoint remain to be verified.

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• Bob Dylan

  Isis

  Song on Desire (Columbia Records, 1976).

  Official lyric source supplied by the author for “The dividing line ran through the center of town.”

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• Bob Dylan

  Up to Me

  Song recorded in 1974; released on Biograph (Columbia Records, 1985).

  The Socratic education chapter quotes the song.

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• Charles Darwin

  Letter to William Graham, 3 July 1881

  Darwin Correspondence Project, letter DCP-LETT-13230.

  Source of the “horrid doubt” passage; checked and confirmed by the author.

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• Constantine and Licinius

  Measures conventionally called the Edict of Milan

  313 CE. Primary-text translation linked in the book.

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• D. D. Clarke and Louis Sokoloff

  Regulation of Cerebral Metabolic Rate

  In Basic Neurochemistry, NCBI Bookshelf online chapter.

  The manuscript supplies no full print-edition citation.

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• Frederick II / Johann Julius Hecker

  Generallandschulreglement

  Prussian General Rural School Regulation, 12 August 1763.

  Named in the researched notes; no particular printed edition is specified.

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• Gospel authors / Bible

  Matthew, Mark and Luke

  No single translation specified in the chapter.

  Passages: Luke 10:25–37; Matthew 18:12–14; Luke 15; Matthew 18:23–35; Matthew 16:13–15; Matthew 20:1–16; Matthew 21:28–32; Luke 14:15–24; Matthew 22:1–14; Mark 4:1–20; Matthew 7:1–5; Mark 15.

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• International Energy Agency

  Energy and AI

  Special report, 10 April 2025.

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• Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Addresses to the German Nation

  Lectures delivered 1807–1808; first published Berlin, 1808.

  Named in the history notes; no translation or edition specified.

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• Johann Wilhelm Süvern

  Draft general law on the Prussian school system

  1819 draft; translated in Cousin’s report and Austin’s 1834 edition.

  Never enacted as a whole; see Cousin’s bibliography entry.

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• KW Norton

  The Twelve-Thousand-Year Habit

  Standalone site essay, not a book chapter.

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• Marcus E. Raichle and Debra A. Gusnard

  Appraising the brain’s energy budget

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (2002), pp. 10237–10239.

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• NASA / PMM

  Solar constant

  1361 W/m², as cited in the energy section.

  No specific NASA publication is identified in the manuscript.

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• Prussian state

  Allgemeines Landrecht

  1794, Part II, Title 12.

  Named for schools’ legal status; no particular printed edition is specified.

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• Rolf Landauer

  Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process

  IBM Journal of Research and Development 5, no. 3 (1961), pp. 183–191.

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• Tacitus

  Annals, 15.44.3

  Ancient historical work; no print translation or edition specified.

  Cited for Christus’s execution, not for an established motive involving his teaching method.

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• Theodosius I and co-emperors

  Theodosian Code 16.1.2

  380 CE enactment; preserved in the later Theodosian Code.

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Authors named without a specified work

The book names these thinkers or writers without identifying an edition or title; no work has been assigned to them here.

• Lewis Carroll — Wonderland dialogue and language; no title or edition specified.
• Thomas S. Kuhn — scientific change and fruitfulness; no edition is specified in the manuscript.
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — the line through the human heart; no work or edition specified here.
• Richard Dawkins — the concept of the meme; no work specified.
• Carl Gustav Jung — shadow and psychological inquiry; no work specified.
• Niels Bohr — complementarity and an assistant’s recollection; no source edition specified.
• John Bell — non-locality; no particular paper identified.
• Fritjof Capra — recollection of Heisenberg; no work specified.
• Rabindranath Tagore — encounter with Heisenberg; no work specified.
• Arthur Schopenhauer — cited through Einstein’s outlook; no work specified.
• Thomas Huxley — the term agnostic; no work specified.
• Thomas Paine — attributed travelling-ideas line remains unverified; no authenticated work identified.
• Thomas Jefferson — educational proposal; no document edition identified.
• Herbert Gold — author’s former professor; no work cited.
• Gary Snyder — author’s former professor; no work cited.
• Socrates — teaching method; no particular ancient dialogue cited.
• Dante — named literary figure; no work specified.
• Milton, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley — named in Darwin’s account; no individual works cited.
• Upanishads / Vedanta — traditions named in the physicists’ reading; no text or translation specified.