Cover: Magritte, René, The False Mirror. (1928). Oil on canvas, 21 × 31⅞". Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. Pages 35, 37, and 40 illustrations by Victor Juhasz. Page 45 illustration reprinted from The Many Worlds of Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, edited by Bryce S. DeWitt and Neill Graham (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 156. Page 48 illustration by Rick Granger. Pages 148, 157, and 175 lithographs and woodcuts of M.C. Escher are reproduced by permission of the Escher Foundation, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; copyright © the Escher Foundation, 1981; reproduction rights arranged courtesy of the Vorpal Galleries: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Laguna Beach. Page 189 illustration courtesy of C.W. Rettenmeyer. Pages 278 and 279 illustrations from Vicious Circles and Infinity: A Panoply of Paradoxes, by Patrick Hughes and George Brecht (New York: Doubleday, 1975). Page 349 illustration by John Tenniel from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1946), copyright © by Grosset & Dunlap. Page 405 illustration by Jim Hull.
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