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Science / Essays.. ISBN 0-679-75877-1..
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For the last 20 years, Alan Lightman has been
writing essays that display his genius for
bringing literary and scientific concerns into
harmony. Dance for
Two gethers the best of Lightman's
work. Here are pieces that touch on both the
ethereal and the corporeal: the dependance of a
ballerina on the laws physics, the choice every
scientist makes between tinkering and theorizing,
the unscientific nature ofdiscovery, 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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