Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983) was an American visionary, designer, architect, and inventor. He was also a professor at Southern Illinois University and a prolific writer.

Neologisms

World-around is a term coined by Fuller to replace worldwide. The general belief in a flat Earth died out in the Middle Ages, so using wide is an anachronism when referring to the surface of the Earth — a spheroidal surface has area and encloses a volume, but has no width. Fuller held that unthinking use of obsolete scientific ideas detracts from and misleads intuition. The terms sunsight and sunclipse are other neologisms, according to Allegra Fuller Snyder collectively coined by the Fuller family, replacing sunrise and sunset in order to overturn the geocentric bias of most pre-Copernican celestial mechanics.

Related Topics:
Flat Earth - Middle Ages - Anachronism - Spheroid - Area - Volume - Allegra Fuller Snyder - Copernican - Celestial mechanics

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Fuller also coined the phrase Spaceship Earth, and coined the term (but did not invent) tensegrity.

Related Topics:
Spaceship Earth - Tensegrity

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