Table of Contents
Have Cardano’s visitors left an invitation? Cyrano’s First Flight The World Does So Turn What is a Burglar in Infinity? Transforming a Stove Lid 5... 4... 3... Blast off! ...2.. 1...	An Apple a Day... Parachuting Into Paradise One Small Step for a Woman... The Bootstrap Has Landed Have you heard the one about...? Swords, Apples, Herbs and Fruit The Devil Made Him Hungry?	A Monkey and a Grey Eminence A Secret Agent in a Radical Cause Do You Perceive What I Perceive? I Hear You. Can You See Me? “Alouette, je te plumerai” Brother, Can You Spare an Eclogue?
That Monkey is a Spanish Physicist Nothing: the Ultimate Softener Gimme That Old-Time Combustion It’s a Bird. It’s a Beast. It’s an Ostrich? Lest We Grow Too Fond of It A Fool for a Client A Little Existential Anguish Before Dinner?	Birds and Bees; Mushrooms and Crocodiles Go to the Cabbage, and Be Wise Is There a Doctor in the House? All Aboard! Dive, Dive! Place Your Bets! Why You Are, How You See	Molecules and Lightbulbs Talking Books and Dying Dinnertime, on the Nose! He Who Eats Last, Eats Best All This and a Body, Too? You are Whom You Eat The Other World Some Questions and Answers Afterword