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A Responsibility to Awe: Poems (Oxford Poets)
Rebecca Elson
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Description for A Responsibility to Awe: Poems (Oxford Poets)
Paperback. Rebecca Elson's knowledge of astronomy is combined with autobiographical detail here in an exploration of time, space, evolution and her approaching death. Series: Oxford poets. Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 12. Weight in Grams: 212.
Rebecca Elson was an astronomer. Her work took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable. Facts are only as interesting as the possibilities they open up to the imagination , she wrote. Her research involved dark matter - hidden mass which can be inferred only from its influence on observable objects: As if, from fireflies, one could infer the field . Her poems, too, make inferences and speculate, setting out always from meticulous observation and not deterred by a knowledge of how little we can know of the universe. She agreed with Einstein's ... Read more
Rebecca Elson was an astronomer. Her work took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable. Facts are only as interesting as the possibilities they open up to the imagination , she wrote. Her research involved dark matter - hidden mass which can be inferred only from its influence on observable objects: As if, from fireflies, one could infer the field . Her poems, too, make inferences and speculate, setting out always from meticulous observation and not deterred by a knowledge of how little we can know of the universe. She agreed with Einstein's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Oxford Poets
Condition
New
Weight
206g
Number of Pages
159
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781903039540
SKU
V9781903039540
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About Rebecca Elson
Rebecca Elson was an astronomer. Her principal work focused on globular clusters, teasing out the history of stellar birth, life and death. Born in Montreal, Quebec, of Canadian and US parents, she studied at Smith, St Andrews, and the University of British Columbia. She took her PhD at Cambridge, where she won an Isaac Newton Studentship. She started publishing poems ... Read more
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