Dance for Two
Essays
Published on 9. March 2011
192 pages
978-0-307-78962-4 (ISBN)
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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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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.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Pas De Deux
- A Flash of Light
- Smile
- Is the Earth Round or Flat?
- If Birds Can Fly, Why, Oh Why, Can't i?
- Students and Teachers
- Time Travel and Papa Joe's Pipe
- In His Image
- Mirage
- To Cleave an Atom
- Elapsed Expectations
- A Visit by Mr. Newton
- Origins
- A Day in December
- Progress
- I = V/R
- Nothing But the Truth
- Time for the Stars
- A Modern-Day Yankee in a Connecticut Court
- The Origin of the Universe
- How the Camel Got His Hump
- Ironland
- Other Rooms
- Seasons
- About the Author
