TY  - BOOK
AU  - Popova,Maria
TI  - Figuring
SN  - 9781524748135
AV  - HQ1397 .P67 2019
U1  - 305.43/5 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Pantheon Books
KW  - Women in science
KW  - History
KW  - Women and the arts
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-552) and index; 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
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