" Figuringis a love letter to scientists of the past, women whose lived have all too often been eclipsed. Finally, perhaps, women like Fuller, Mitchell, and Carson have found their best chronicler." -Book and Film Globe Figuring, if anything, serves as a corrective to the male/straight school of historical writing, showcasing women who tried to live their own lives and create their own worlds in the face of dismissal and neglect. In Figuring, we are thrust into a waltz of exquisitely honed minds-most of them belonging to women, many of them sexually queer-all insisting on living to their fullest." - The Washington Post "An intricate tapestry in which the lives of these women, and dozens of other scientific and literary figures, are woven together through threads of connection across four centuries. beautiful." - The New York Times Book Review ambitious, challenging and somewhat category-defying book. Her wonderfully deft and sincere prose melts down the raw materials of heavy research into a coruscating flow of ideas, images, and insights that add skin and sinew to the bones of biographical fact to create a forward-looking history that's both timely and timeless." - Vanity Fair It speaks to the quality of Popova's own writing that it survives comparison with the literary giants of the last four centuries. Figuring thunders along with a novelistic intensity, propelled by the organic drama of its extraordinary lives. " passionate and erudite pursuit of truth and beauty." -Booklist (starred review)
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