Gordon Fisher                 

gmfisher7@optonline.net

1. Marriage and Divorce of Astronomy and Astrology
A History of Astral Prediction from Antiquity to Newton

                Chapter 1. Some Sources of Astral Beliefs

                Chapter 2. From Astral Beliefs to Kepler, Fludd and Newton

                            Appendix to Chapter 2: Newton’s Laws

                Chapter 3. Some Astrological Techniques

                Chapter 4. From Babylon to Copernicus

                Chapter 5. Stoics, Kepler, and Evaluations

                            Appendix to Chapter 4: Diodorus Siculus of Sicily

                Chapter 6. Earlier Christians and Astrology

                Chapter 7. From Ptolemy to Newton

                            Appendix to Chapter 7: Pierre d'Ailly, and Newton Again

                Updates and Addenda

2. Right as Rain – What Goes Without Saying

3. The Skeleton of Water (poems)

1.  Who that say that?  (22 poems)

2.  Turns Among Many  (8 poems)

3.  Love Laughs Last  (8 poems)

4.  Roomers of Wars  (8 poems)

5.  The Play Goes On  (12 poems)

4. On the Group of All Homeomorphisms of a Manifold:
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
vol. 97, issue 2, Nov 1960, p 193-212

5. A World New to Some
     Some history of 16th & 17th century New England,
     mainly the Connecticut River Valley, with footnotes
     showing genealogical connections with numerous
     families -- these are some of my ancestors:
                1.  Henry Smith, Puritan preacher
                2.  Samuel Hale, served in the Pequot War
                3.  Samuel Hale, Jr., Justice of the Peace
                4.  Thomas Welles, Governor of Connecticut
                5.  Jonathan Hale, served in the Revolutionary War

6. Three Paths to Gettysburg:
1. Great-grandfather Corporal Elvin Gilman Hill 
2. Grandfather Capt. Charles Wiley Fisher
3. Great-uncle Lt. (later Brig. Gen.) Tully McCrea

7. On time(s) and off time(s)

I.  Martin Heidegger :  his beings and times

                1.  Starting from Athens and Jerusalem
                2.  On Temporalizing Being and temporalizing being
                3.  On the Way to One-ing
                4. Times : Temporalität, Zeitlichkeit
5.  Sein und Zeit, Being and Time:  the Book
6.  Dasein and Zeitlichkeit: Everyday time
7.  Appendix 1: Some Origins
                8.  Appendix 2: Heidegger and the Nazis

II.  Rudolf Carnap on Pseudoproblems

             1.  What Carnap Wants to Do to Heidegger and Others  
                2.  What Words and Sentences Mean 
3.  How to Reason One's Way to Meanings  
                4.  Metaphysical Words Without Meanings       
                5.  Carnap Confronts Heidegger

8. Cauchy's Variables and Orders of the Infinitely Small
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Vol. 30, No. 3, Sep 1979, 261-265  (Acrobat pdf file)

9. The Infinite and Infinitesimal Quantities of Du Bois-Reymond and their Reception.pdf
                Archive for History of Exact Sciences, v. 24, Nr. 2,
                June, 1981, 101-16

10. Euclid and the Egyptian Rope-stretchers
                discussion of the extent to which Euclid's 
                Elements may have been based on a desire 
                to put into words directions for practical 
                measurements

11. Seeing and Saying
about geometers describing what they see
using languages               

12. Space & Time & Spacetime
                1.  Time as Motion and Motion as Time
                2.  Clock Motion and Time Dilation

13. Personal Languages and Meaning as Pointing
A Kind of Idiolects, and a Way of Meaning


Autobiographical note