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Figuring

Maria Popova

Hardcover | Pages: 592 pages

Rating: 4.3 | 1308 Users | 255 Reviews

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Title	:	Figuring
Author	:	Maria Popova
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 592 pages
Published	:	February 5th 2019 by Pantheon Books
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Philosophy. Science. Writing. Essays. Biography

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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 catalyzed 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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Original Title:	Figuring
ISBN:	1524748137 (ISBN13: 9781524748135)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.3 From 1308 Users | 255 Reviews

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For the first third or so of the book I wasnt quite sure what Popova was really getting at. There were a lot of historical figures surrounding her main subjects and I was having a little bit of trouble keeping up with the jumps back and forth (and I kept confusing Maria Mitchell and Margaret Fuller, oops). But then Popova got to her chapters on Emily Dickinson and just wow. Blew me away. That was when the book began to gel for me and I started to really understand that Popova was drawing all

one of the best books I've ever read

I am loving this book. Amazing first sentence and it just gets better and better.

i have spent countless hours on brainpickings.org marveling at how Maria Popova manages to trace connections between writers, artists, and scientists. she is so insightful & capable of original thought. figuring is based on the lives & connections of various figures in history. i might have done some crying after reading the sections on Emily Dickinson & Rachel Carson. a quick visit to ms. popova's website or twitter feed will give you an idea of how she thinks & writes. I give

The city of Pittsburgh has 446 bridges, more than Venice, and actually more than any city in the world. The more prominent ones downtown have been named for local celebrities: Andy Warhol, Roberto Clemente, David McCullough. And Rachel Carson.Thats nice and all; having a bridge named after you, I mean. But I think Rachel Carson would have been happier with another eponymous honor: The Rachel Carson Trail, a dozen miles north of her bridge and only a short drive from me. I go there for solitary

How does one begin to explain a book like Figuring? Honestly, I dont know, however, I shall try. The book Figuring is much like Popovas site, brainpickings.org: it is sort of a Russian doll, revealing layer after layer after layer, only if you wish to see it, or perhaps experience it. Figuring is a book that you should read with the mindset of allowing the book to take it where it wants to, without expecting something too traditional or run of the mill.Figuring is a beautiful combination of

michigan daily review to come -- but this was a dense beautiful read