Table of Contents
Prologue: The Technological Fallacy xiii
Chapter 1 Being Human 1
Chapter 2 The Moths that Circle a Chinese Candle 22
Chapter 3 The Islamic Birth of Literacy 48
Chapter 4 And Where is Xátiva? 66
Chapter 5 Europe Between Two Felts 76
Chapter 6 Making Words Soar 98
Chapter 7 The Art of Printing 115
Chapter 8 Out from Mainz 132
Chapter 9 Tenochtitlán and the Blue-Eyed Devil 147
Chapter 10 The Trumpet Call 162
Chapter 11 Rembrandt's Discovery 167
Chapter 12 The Traitorous Corruption of England 179
Chapter 13 Papering Independence 205
Chapter 14 Diderot's Promise 226
Chapter 15 Invitation from a Wasp 245
Chapter 16 Advantages in the Head 256
Chapter 17 To Die Like Gentlemen 275
Chapter 18 Return to Asia 293
Epilogue: Change 323
Appendix: Timeline 337
Acknowledgments 345
Bibliography 347
Index 355
