Introduction; Preamble I. Good to fall; 1. Hesiod's muses; Preamble II. Towers crash; 2. The gravity of Hades; Preamble III. A great fall; 3. Ballistics; Preamble IV. A new leaf; 4. Heavenly motion; Preamble V. Falling oars; 5. Pendulum variations; Preamble VI. Half to fall; 6. Retrieving H.G. Wells from the ocean floor; Preamble VII. Turned round and round; 7. Sliding along a chord through a rotating Earth; Preamble VIII. Fallen, fallen, fallen; 8. Falling through a rotating Earth; Preamble IX. Falling into naught; 9. Shadow lands; Preamble X. Spinning complete; 10. The Trochoid family; Preamble XI. The world turned; 11. Retrieving H. G. Wells from the moon; Preamble XII. Catch a star; 12. Playing ball in space; Preamble XIII. Turn a different hue; 13. The rotating beacon; Preamble XIV. Never turning; 14. The long count; Preamble XV. What a fall!; 15. Hesiod's anvil; Appendix; Cast of characters; Comments on selected exercises; References; Index; About the author.
