Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuriesâ€”beginning with

Figuring
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- Language: english
- Binding: hardcover
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuriesâ€”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 scientistsâ€”mostly women, mostly queerâ€”whose public contribution haveÂ risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience, and appreciate the universe. Among them are the astronomer Maria Mitchell, who paved the way for women in science; the sculptor Harriet Hosmer, who did the same in art; the journalist and literary critic Margaret Fuller, who sparked the feminist movement; and the poet Emily Dickinson.

Emanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world: Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is genius? Is love? Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figuresâ€”Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitmanâ€”and a tapestry of themes spanning music, feminism, the history of science, the rise and decline of religion, and how the intersection of astronomy, poetry, and Transcendentalist philosophy fomented the environmental movement.
Country USA
Brand Pantheon
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Hardcover
Color Gold
ReleaseDate 2019-02-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781524748135

Country	USA
Brand	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Gold
ReleaseDate	2019-02-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781524748135

Figuring

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