Pantheon

9781524748135

STARRED REVIEW

Figuring

This audacious new work of intellectual history focuses on the lives of a coterie of brilliant female scientists.

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Review of ‘Figuring’

BookPage Top Pick in Nonfiction, starred review, February 2019

Fans of polymath Maria Popova’s popular website, Brain Pickings, will find themselves right at home in Figuring, her audacious new work of intellectual history that focuses on the lives of a coterie of brilliant women, some well-known and others less so, whose gifts in fields like astronomy,…

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