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. The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination. Le Guin 163 Kindle Edition 1 offer from 17.99 Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays Mary Oliver 451 Kindle Edition 1 offer from 12. 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. Summary & Analysis of Figuring: A Guide to the Book by Maria Popova. Summary & Analysis of Figuring: A Guide to the Book by Maria Popova ZIP Reads 3 Kindle Edition 1 offer from 0.99 The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Ursula K.

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.

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