Figuring
Book - 2019
Explores the search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of historical figures from four centuries--artists, writers, and scientists, most of them women, who changed the way humans understand, experience, and appreciate the universe.
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- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Pantheon Books
[2019]
- Edition
- First edition
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- x, 578 pages ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [549]-552) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781524748135
9781786897244 - Main Author
- Only the dreamer wakes
- To find dismooned among the stardust
- What is lost and what is gained
- Of the infinite in the finite
- To figure and transfigure
- The much that calls for more
- To brave the light of the world
- That which exhausts and exalts
- Merely the beautiful
- Divided, indivisible
- Between sinew and spirit
- Between art and life
- The banality of survival
- Shadowing the light of immortality
- To gaze and turn away
- From romance to reason
- From terror to transcendence
- Unmastering
- The heart's circumference
- Bound by neither mind nor matter
- In the darkness of being
- Searching for totality
- Into the unfathomed
- Where splendor dwells
- To live and to vanish
- Between the scale of atoms and the scale of worlds
- Between the time of monarchs and the time of stars
- Tracing the thread of being
- From shoreless seeds to stardust.
