The horizon: a history of our infinite longing/
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Berkeley:
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Table of Contents:
- Permanence : Egypt, 2500 B.C.E.
- Astonishment : Mesopotamia, circa 1900 B.C.E.
- Enterprise : Aegean Sea, circa 725 B.C.E.
- Tremor : Northern Kingdom of Israel, 500 B.C.E.
- Exodus : the Desert of Moab, 450 B.C.E.
- Synthesis : the Hellenic Achipelago, 500 B.C.E.
- Closure : Athens, circa 400 B.C.E.
- Distance : Nicaea, 325 C.E.
- Trembling : Hippo, 410
- Space : the northern forest, 1100
- Perspective : Mount Ventoux, April 1336
- Ambivalence : Florence, 1503
- Mortuus sum : Bordeaux, 1574
- Nothing : Regensburg, May 8, 1654
- Night : Neuberg, November 10, 1619
- The subjective age
- Formless : Koigsberg, 1780
- Severance : Wetzlar, November 1772
- Blue yonder : Tubingen, 1810
- Eden : upstate New York, September 22, 1827
- Flatness : Murnau, Bavaria, 1908
- No exit : Buenos Aires, April 1941
- Here : Woodstock, NY, August 29, 1952
- Nowhere : the Moon, July 21, 1969, 3:58 a.m. BST.