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Praise for the Text; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1. Proem; 1.2. Embarking on a Personal 'Voyage.'; 1.3. The Wonder That Is Chartres; 1.4. Rheims Not Chartres; 1.5. Too Successful a Technology?; Reference Notes: Introduction; 2. GHOSTS OF THE TEMERAIRE; 2.1. Phantoms on the Quarterdeck; 2.2. A Personal Perusal; 2.3. The Temeraire at Trafalgar; 2.4. Transports of Delight; Reference Notes: Ghosts of the Temeraire; 3. WHAT A SIGHT IT IS; 3.1. Oh the Humanity!; 3.2. DEKKA: Luftschiff Hindenburg; 3.3. Leaving Old Worlds; 3.4. Reaching New Worlds
3.5. Landing the Airship3.6. Disaster!; 3.7. The Crash and Its Aftermath; 3.8. Why Hindenburg Crashed; 3.9. The End of an Era; Reference Notes: What a Sight It Is; 4. THE LARGEST MOVING OBJECT EVER BUILT; 4.1. Introducing Titanic; 4.2. Leaving Old Worlds; 4.3. MGY: Radio Call Sign of Titanic; 4.4. "Iceberg
Dead Ahead"; 4.5. Death Throes of a Dream; 4.6. Those Who Survived; 4.7. Heroes and Villains; 4.8. Summary and Conclusion; Reference Notes: The Largest Moving Object Ever Built; 5. REACHING FOR GOD; 5.1. Gothic Creations; 5.2. The Incomplete Wonder; 5.3. Vaulting Ambition
5.4. Another Night to Remember5.5. How Hath the Mighty Fallen?; 5.6. One Magnificent Mess; Reference Notes: Reaching for God; 6. SURVIVING SISTERS; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Chartres Cathedral: Beauvais' Living Cousin; 6.3. Graf Zeppelin: The Successful Airship; 6.4. Titanic's Tragic Sisters: Olympic and Britannic; 6.5. Summary and Conclusion; Reference Notes: Surviving Sisters; 7. THE RIDDLE OF THE LABYRINTH; 7.1. Augmentation to Locomotion; 7.2. The Pagan in the Sacred; 7.3. Petite Pilgrimage; 7.4. The Chartres Labyrinth; 7.5. Involuntary Transportation; 7.6. Out of the Labyrinth
Reference Notes: The Riddle of the Labyrinth8. SHIPS OF THE SOUL; 8.1. Searching Beyond Surfaces; 8.2. On Common Physical Dimensions; 8.3. Hull, Nave, and Airframe; 8.4. Locus of Control; 8.5. Commander and the 'Crew'; 8.6. Summoned by Bells; 8.7. Congregated 'Passengers'; 8.8. Looming and Awe; 8.9. The Common Ultimate Function; Reference Notes: Ships of the Soul; 9. THREADS THROUGH TIME; 9.1. Tying Things Together; 9.2. Airship and Cathedral; 9.3. Recycle and Resurrect; 9.4. Modern Reflection, Modern Purpose, Same Goal; 9.5. Toward a Conclusion; Research Notes: Thread through Time
10. TRANSPORTS OF DELIGHT10.1. Further, Ever Further; 10.2. The Familiar Form of Failure; 10.3. From Stonehenge to Space Station; 10.4. The Quintessential Stone Circle; 10.5. A Summary of Transportation; Reference Notes: Transports of Delight; 11. AUTOBIOMIMESIS; 11.1. Mimetic Principles; 11.2 . Pathologies in Technology; 11.3. Further Eversions of the Brain; 11.4. It's All in Your Hands; 11.5. The Celestial City; Reference Notes: Autobiomimesis and Ultimate Purpose; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2: GHOSTS OF THE TEMERAIRE; CHAPTER 3: WHAT A SIGHT IT IS
3.5. Landing the Airship3.6. Disaster!; 3.7. The Crash and Its Aftermath; 3.8. Why Hindenburg Crashed; 3.9. The End of an Era; Reference Notes: What a Sight It Is; 4. THE LARGEST MOVING OBJECT EVER BUILT; 4.1. Introducing Titanic; 4.2. Leaving Old Worlds; 4.3. MGY: Radio Call Sign of Titanic; 4.4. "Iceberg
Dead Ahead"; 4.5. Death Throes of a Dream; 4.6. Those Who Survived; 4.7. Heroes and Villains; 4.8. Summary and Conclusion; Reference Notes: The Largest Moving Object Ever Built; 5. REACHING FOR GOD; 5.1. Gothic Creations; 5.2. The Incomplete Wonder; 5.3. Vaulting Ambition
5.4. Another Night to Remember5.5. How Hath the Mighty Fallen?; 5.6. One Magnificent Mess; Reference Notes: Reaching for God; 6. SURVIVING SISTERS; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Chartres Cathedral: Beauvais' Living Cousin; 6.3. Graf Zeppelin: The Successful Airship; 6.4. Titanic's Tragic Sisters: Olympic and Britannic; 6.5. Summary and Conclusion; Reference Notes: Surviving Sisters; 7. THE RIDDLE OF THE LABYRINTH; 7.1. Augmentation to Locomotion; 7.2. The Pagan in the Sacred; 7.3. Petite Pilgrimage; 7.4. The Chartres Labyrinth; 7.5. Involuntary Transportation; 7.6. Out of the Labyrinth
Reference Notes: The Riddle of the Labyrinth8. SHIPS OF THE SOUL; 8.1. Searching Beyond Surfaces; 8.2. On Common Physical Dimensions; 8.3. Hull, Nave, and Airframe; 8.4. Locus of Control; 8.5. Commander and the 'Crew'; 8.6. Summoned by Bells; 8.7. Congregated 'Passengers'; 8.8. Looming and Awe; 8.9. The Common Ultimate Function; Reference Notes: Ships of the Soul; 9. THREADS THROUGH TIME; 9.1. Tying Things Together; 9.2. Airship and Cathedral; 9.3. Recycle and Resurrect; 9.4. Modern Reflection, Modern Purpose, Same Goal; 9.5. Toward a Conclusion; Research Notes: Thread through Time
10. TRANSPORTS OF DELIGHT10.1. Further, Ever Further; 10.2. The Familiar Form of Failure; 10.3. From Stonehenge to Space Station; 10.4. The Quintessential Stone Circle; 10.5. A Summary of Transportation; Reference Notes: Transports of Delight; 11. AUTOBIOMIMESIS; 11.1. Mimetic Principles; 11.2 . Pathologies in Technology; 11.3. Further Eversions of the Brain; 11.4. It's All in Your Hands; 11.5. The Celestial City; Reference Notes: Autobiomimesis and Ultimate Purpose; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2: GHOSTS OF THE TEMERAIRE; CHAPTER 3: WHAT A SIGHT IT IS