Figuring
by Maria Popova
Recommended by Cleo Abram and Robert Macfarlane
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE AND BOOKPAGEFiguring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuriesbeginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biolog...
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Cleo Abram
“@NaturalistBooks @MichelleU_Wood @JohnnyFlynnHQ @brainpicker Figuring is such a book, it really is.”
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