Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking.

FULLER, R. Buckminster in collaboration with E. J. Applewhite.

Item Number: 124974

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1975.

First edition of Fuller’s landmark work. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with charts and diagrams. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Bill Morgan, Buckminster Fuller.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

When R. Buckminster Fuller's landmark work Synergetics was published, it was hailed as "brilliant... and shot through with moments of poetry..." (The New York Times Book Review) and the "distilled wisdom of a lifetime spent contemplating the Universe from angles and directions never before suspected" ( Arthur C. Clarke). In a free-ranging display of poetic and intuitive metaphors accompanied by numerous illustrations, Fuller explains his grand concept of synergy: the "behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately." Such systems are found in and employed by nature and are repeated throughout the universe - a universe which is for Fuller the aggregate of all men's experiences.