Alan Lightman

Dance for Two (eBook, ePUB)

Essays

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For the last twenty years, Alan Lightman has been writing essays that display his genius for bringing literary and scientific concerns into harmony. Dance for Two gathers the best of Lightman's work. Here are pieces that touch on both the ethereal and the corporeal; the dependence of a ballerina on the laws of physics, the choice of every scientist makes between tinkering and theorizing, the unscientific nature of discovery, the impulse behind an unprompted smile. Dance for Two is an intimate and fascinating look into the creative compulsions shared by the artist and the scientist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307789624
• Artikelnr.: 39206699

Autorenporträt

ALAN LIGHTMAN is the author of seven novels, including the international best seller Einstein's Dreams and The Diagnosis, a finalist for the National Book Award. He has taught at Harvard and at MIT, where he was the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in science and the humanities. He is the host of the public television series Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science. He is a professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword ix
Pas de Deux 3
A Flash of Light 6
Smile 12
Is the Earth Round or Flat? 17
If Birds Can Fly, Why, Oh Why, Can't I? 22
Students and Teachers 29
Time Travel and Papa Joe's Pipe 39
In His Image 45
Mirage 54
To Cleave an Atom 58
Elapsed Expectations 68
A Visit by Mr. Newton 73
Origins 79
A Day in December 84
Progress 87
I=V/R 94
Nothing but the Truth 100
Time for the Stars 107
A Modern-Day Yankee in a Connecticut Court 117
The Origin of the Universe 133
How the Camel Got His Hump 142
Ironland 145
Other Rooms 151
Seasons 159