Figuring 英文原版 玛丽亚·波波娃：计算 Maria Popova

基本信息

By (author) Maria Popova

Format Paperback | 592 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 35mm | 391g

Publication date 30 Jan 2020

Publisher Canongate Books Ltd

Publication City/Country Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Language English

Edition Statement Main

ISBN10 1786897261

ISBN13 9781786897268

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

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 catalysed 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.

Figuring通過四個世紀以來幾個歷史人物的相互聯繫的生活探索愛情的複雜性以及人類尋找真理和意義的過程-首先是發現行星運動定律的天文學家Johannes Kepler，最後是海洋生物學家和作家Rachel卡森（Carson），他推動了環保運動。

在這些人物之間延伸的是一群藝術家，作家和科學家-大多數是女性，大多數是古怪的-他們的公共貢獻源於他們無法分類的，常常令人心碎的私人關係，從而改變了我們理解，體驗和欣賞宇宙的方式。天文學家瑪麗亞·米切爾（Maria Mitchell）為科學領域的女性鋪平了道路。雕塑家哈麗特·霍斯默（Harriet Hosmer）在藝術上也做過同樣的事情；引發女權運動的新聞記者和文學評論家瑪格麗特·富勒（Margaret Fuller）；還有詩人艾米莉·狄金森（Emily Dickinson）。

從這些生活中產生的問題是關於美好生活的尺度以及在一個不完美的世界上留下持久改善的持久意義的更大問題：成就和讚美足以滿足幸福嗎？是天才嗎？是愛？敘述中編織著一系列外圍人物-拉爾夫·沃爾多·愛默生，查爾斯·達爾文，伊麗莎白·巴雷特·布朗寧，赫爾曼·梅爾維爾，弗雷德里克·道格拉斯，納撒尼爾·霍桑和沃爾特·惠特曼-以及涵蓋音樂，女權主義，科學歷史，宗教的興衰，以及天文學，詩歌和超越主義哲學的交匯如何激發環境運動。

作者简介

Maria Popova is a reader and a writer, and writes about what she reads on Brain Pickings (brainpickings.org), which is included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials. She hosts The Universe in Verse - an annual celebration of science through poetry - at the interdisciplinary cultural center Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. She grew up in Bulgaria immersed in music and mathematics.

瑪麗亞·波波娃（Maria Popova）是位讀者和作家，並撰寫了她在Brain Pickings（brainpickings.org）上所讀的文章，該文章已包含在國會圖書館關於文化價值的*久性數字檔案中。她在布魯克林的跨學科文化中心先鋒作品中心主持“詩歌中的宇宙”（每年一次通過詩歌來慶祝科學）。她在保加利亞長大，沉迷於音樂和數學。