1. What follows is a short list of books and essays (and one film)
that have inspired me and that I have mentioned in this book for one
reason or another. But I must give one reference pride of place as my
go-to source of first and often only resort:
2. Jim Al-Khalili, Pathfinders: The
Golden Age of Arabic Science (Penguin, 2012).
3. Isaac Asimov, Foundaton Trilogy
(Gnome Press, 1951).
4. The Information Manifold
5. The Venerable Bede, On the Reckoning
of Time (c. 723).