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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Human destinies intertwine across time and space within an ever-growing, vast web.
Chapter 3: Through scientific breakthroughs and speculative fiction, Johannes Kepler profoundly shaped our collective future.
Chapter 4: Her singular upbringing and environment enabled Maria Mitchell to become America’s first female astronomer.
Chapter 5: Across the ages, many brilliant minds have regarded beauty as intrinsically allied with truth itself.
Chapter 6: Throughout history, the realities of people’s romantic natures have been far more complex than the labels imposed upon them.
Chapter 7: The union of literature and science was embodied by mathematical prodigy Ada Lovelace.
Chapter 8: Goethe bequeathed an unexpectedly influential scientific legacy.
Chapter 9: Even the most scientific minds are susceptible to the mystical when confronted with inevitable mortality.
Description
Figuring (2019) traces the intricate web that connects important figures from human history, from German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and inventor Nikola Tesla to America’s first female astronomer Maria Mitchell and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. These blinks pick up the tapestry of these different lives, trace the impact that they had on the course of history, and reveal the secret driving force that unites them all.
Who Should Listen
- Voracious readers across all genres
- Poets who love science
- Scientists who love poetry