Lear's Shadow by Rothman Claire Holden
Explore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante's Divine Comedy. Was Dante's astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as insightful as one could be about the sky? As the twentieth century began, women who wished to become professional astronomers faced difficult cultural barriers, but Evershed joined the British Astronomical Association and, from an Indian observatory, became an experienced observer of sunspots, solar eclipses, and variable stars. From the perspective of one remarkable amateur astronomer, readers will see how ideas developed during Galileo's time evolved or were discarded in Newtonian conceptions of the cosmos and then recast in Einstein's theories. The result is a book about the history of science but also a poetic meditation on literature, science, and the evolution of ideas.
CLAIRE HOLDEN ROTHMAN's My October was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a finalist for the Governor General's Award. Her debut novel The Heart Specialist, also longlisted for the Giller, was published in six countries. She has written two story collections and is an award-winning translator.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780735234253 |
| ISBN 10 | 0735234256 |
| Title | Lear's Shadow |
| Author | Rothman Claire Holden |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Canada |
| Year published | 2018-07-10 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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