What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function—in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities.
In What Galileo Saw, Lawrence Lipking offers a new perspective on how to understand what happened then, arguing that artistic imagination and creativity as much as rational thought played a critical role in creating new visions of science ...
" A book about the life of an author, about how an author is made, not born, Lipking's Samuel Johnson is the story of the man as he lived--and lives--in his work.
