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Figuring (Paperback, Main)
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Figuring (Paperback, Main)
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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 catalysed the environmental movement. Stretching
between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists
- mostly women, mostly queer - whose public contribution has 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 figures -
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt
Whitman - 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.
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