Figuring

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781524748142
ISBN: 1524748145
ISBN: 9781524748135
ISBN: 1524748137
ISBN: 9781786897244
ISBN: 1786897245
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (x, 578 pages)
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [549]-552) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.