Bibliograph

Figuring, Maria Popova

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Figuring, Maria Popova

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [549]-552) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Figuring

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Maria Popova

Summary

Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries--beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement. Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists--mostly women, mostly queer--whose public contribution have risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience, and appreciate the universe.

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