Synopses & Reviews
For 25 years Donald Robertson was R. Buckminster Fuller's patent lawyer, at his side as each newborn concept was shaped into words. In clear descriptive language, he explains how Fuller's discoveries and inventions are interwoven with his mathematics and philosophy, revealing the true dimensions of Fuller's most thought provoking inventions.
Laced with amusing and enlightening anecdotes (for example, Robertson's struggle to prove that the geodesic dome was not "obvious", which would have made it ineligible for a patent), this story of the confrontation between "the planet's friendly genius" and the examiners at the United States Patent Office offers both profound insights and humorous details of the work of one of the most extraordinary men of the twentieth century.