Nature Fables 2,

stories told in human-scale natural units, by Leonard Cottrell

Table of Contents:

Preface
Old Monkey and the Founding Fathers
Ambrosius
The Onyx Stone
The Four Balloonists
The Emperor Is Visited by Dervishes
Laotzu Discovers the Frequencies of Dervish Light
The Voltages of Dervish Colors
Laotzu Explains the Fundamental Constants
The Distance to the Sun
Wagon of a Thousand Chi
George Washington and the Flea
Laotzu's Favorite Temperature
The Kiln
The Sunset at the Monastery
Laotzu Weighs the Moon
Trucking the Robots
Watch Different Suns, See the Same Constants
Postscript: Some NASA solar system data
Postscript: Densities of various materials

Nature Fables 1

copyright 2002 Leonard Cottrell. All rights reserved.