Dance for Two
By Alan Lightman
By Alan Lightman
By Alan Lightman
By Alan Lightman
Category: Science & Technology
Category: Science & Technology
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$19.00
Mar 26, 1996 | ISBN 9780679758778
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Mar 09, 2011 | ISBN 9780307789624
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Praise
“Alan Lightman is one of our most consistently fascinating writers.”
—Annie Dillard
“Lightman has an uncanny way of presenting complex concepts with familiar examples and analogies—so that readers will both deepen their appreciation of science and their love of fine literature.”
—Stephen Jay Gould
“Novelist, essayist, physicist, and master of prose style, Alan Lightman continues his extraordinary voyage into unexplored regions of life, time, and the imagination. Dance for Two is a compelling book of flawless prose from a unique mind.”
—Richard Preston
Table Of Contents
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
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