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In this book of illustrated essays, Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry.
"Poetry and science," as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply." In 15 short essays on subjects ranging from the mystery of dark matter and the infinity of pi to the resilience of trees and the intelligence of octopuses, Popova tells the stories of scientific searching and discovery. These stories are interwoven with details from the very real and human lives of scientists—many of them women, many underrecognized—and poets inspired by the same questions and the beauty they reveal. Each essay is paired with a poem reflecting its subject by poets ranging from Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden, and Edna St. Vincent Millay to Maya Angelou, Diane Ackerman, and Tracy K. Smith, and is stunningly illustrated by celebrated artist Ofra Amit. Together, they wake us to a "reality aglow with wonder."
"Poetry and science," as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply." In 15 short essays on subjects ranging from the mystery of dark matter and the infinity of pi to the resilience of trees and the intelligence of octopuses, Popova tells the stories of scientific searching and discovery. These stories are interwoven with details from the very real and human lives of scientists—many of them women, many underrecognized—and poets inspired by the same questions and the beauty they reveal. Each essay is paired with a poem reflecting its subject by poets ranging from Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden, and Edna St. Vincent Millay to Maya Angelou, Diane Ackerman, and Tracy K. Smith, and is stunningly illustrated by celebrated artist Ofra Amit. Together, they wake us to a "reality aglow with wonder."
In this book of illustrated essays, Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry.
"Poetry and science," as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply." In 15 short essays on subjects ranging from the mystery of dark matter and the infinity of pi to the resilience of trees and the intelligence of octopuses, Popova tells the stories of scientific searching and discovery. These stories are interwoven with details from the very real and human lives of scientists—many of them women, many underrecognized—and poets inspired by the same questions and the beauty they reveal. Each essay is paired with a poem reflecting its subject by poets ranging from Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden, and Edna St. Vincent Millay to Maya Angelou, Diane Ackerman, and Tracy K. Smith, and is stunningly illustrated by celebrated artist Ofra Amit. Together, they wake us to a "reality aglow with wonder."
"Poetry and science," as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply." In 15 short essays on subjects ranging from the mystery of dark matter and the infinity of pi to the resilience of trees and the intelligence of octopuses, Popova tells the stories of scientific searching and discovery. These stories are interwoven with details from the very real and human lives of scientists—many of them women, many underrecognized—and poets inspired by the same questions and the beauty they reveal. Each essay is paired with a poem reflecting its subject by poets ranging from Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden, and Edna St. Vincent Millay to Maya Angelou, Diane Ackerman, and Tracy K. Smith, and is stunningly illustrated by celebrated artist Ofra Amit. Together, they wake us to a "reality aglow with wonder."
Über den Autor
Maria Popova thinks and writes about our search for meaning—sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children's books, always through the lens of wonder. She is the creator of The Marginalian, born in 2006 under the outgrown name Brain Pickings and included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials, author of Figuring and The Snail with the Right Heart, and maker of The Universe in Verse—a charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Poetry, Science, and the Cosmos of the Possible
The Singularity and Our Elemental Belonging
Singularity (after Stephen Hawking) by Marie Howe
Flowers and the Birth of Ecology
Bloom by Emily Dickinson
Entropy and the Art of Alternative Endings
The More Loving One by W.H. Auden
Henrietta Leavitt, Edwin Hubble, and Our Hunger to Know the Universe
From My God, It’s Full of Stars by Tracy K. Smith
Dark Matter and Our Yearning for Light
Let There Always Be Light by Rebecca Elson
Emily Noether, Symmetry, and the Hidden Order of Things
Figures of Thought by Howard Nemerov
Trees and the Optimism of Resilience
Optimism by Jane Hirshfield
Pi and the Seductions of Infinity
Pi by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak
Euclid and the Dazzling Beauty of Universal Truth
Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Radioactivity and the Mystery of Matter
Power by Adrienne Rich
The Octopus and the Unknown
Impossible Blues by Maria Popova
This Mote of Matter
A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou
The Search for Life
We Are Listening by Diane Ackerman
Mushrooms and the Creative Spirit
Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath
Singularity Squared
Singularity (after Marie Howe) by Marissa Davis
Acknowledgments
The Singularity and Our Elemental Belonging
Singularity (after Stephen Hawking) by Marie Howe
Flowers and the Birth of Ecology
Bloom by Emily Dickinson
Entropy and the Art of Alternative Endings
The More Loving One by W.H. Auden
Henrietta Leavitt, Edwin Hubble, and Our Hunger to Know the Universe
From My God, It’s Full of Stars by Tracy K. Smith
Dark Matter and Our Yearning for Light
Let There Always Be Light by Rebecca Elson
Emily Noether, Symmetry, and the Hidden Order of Things
Figures of Thought by Howard Nemerov
Trees and the Optimism of Resilience
Optimism by Jane Hirshfield
Pi and the Seductions of Infinity
Pi by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak
Euclid and the Dazzling Beauty of Universal Truth
Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Radioactivity and the Mystery of Matter
Power by Adrienne Rich
The Octopus and the Unknown
Impossible Blues by Maria Popova
This Mote of Matter
A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou
The Search for Life
We Are Listening by Diane Ackerman
Mushrooms and the Creative Spirit
Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath
Singularity Squared
Singularity (after Marie Howe) by Marissa Davis
Acknowledgments
Details
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
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| Genre: | Gattungen & Methoden, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Buch |
| ISBN-13: | 9781635868838 |
| ISBN-10: | 1635868831 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Popova, Maria |
| Hersteller: | Workman Publishing |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 206 x 154 x 14 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Maria Popova |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 14.11.2024 |
| Gewicht: | 0,334 kg |