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Books by Lynn Gamwell
Lynn Gamwell currently teaches the history of art, science, and mathematics at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She was curator of a gallery of art and science at the New York Academy of Sciences for ten years and director of an art museum for the State University of New York for twenty years. Her books include Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual, rev. ed. (Princeton University Press, 2020); Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History (Princeton University Press, 2016); author and editor, Dreams 1900-2000: Art, Science, and the Unconscious Mind (Cornell University Press, 2000). She lives in New York.
Dreams 1900–2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind
by Lynn Gamwell (editor)
“Because I don’t have any background in science, I write in plain English for a non-scientific audience.” Read more...
Lynn Gamwell, Science Writer
Interviews with Lynn Gamwell
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Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
by Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw -
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Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us
by Heino Falcke -
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The Event Horizon as a Vanishing Point: a History of the First Image of a Black Hole Shadow from Observation
by Emilie Skulberg -
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Inuyasha
by Rumiko Takahashi -
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Black Holes and Uncle Albert
by Russell Stannard
The best books on Black Holes, recommended by Lynn Gamwell
The best books on Black Holes, recommended by Lynn Gamwell
In the past five years, over 30 books have been published on black holes for a popular audience—testimony to our enduring fascination with these areas of spacetime from which nothing, not even light, can escape. Lynn Gamwell, author of Conjuring the Void—a beautiful book that looks at both scientific and artistic images of black holes—talks us through five of her favourites, including a PhD thesis that has not yet been published as a book.
Interviews where books by Lynn Gamwell were recommended
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1
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
by Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw -
2
Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us
by Heino Falcke -
3
The Event Horizon as a Vanishing Point: a History of the First Image of a Black Hole Shadow from Observation
by Emilie Skulberg -
4
Inuyasha
by Rumiko Takahashi -
5
Black Holes and Uncle Albert
by Russell Stannard
The best books on Black Holes, recommended by Lynn Gamwell
The best books on Black Holes, recommended by Lynn Gamwell
In the past five years, over 30 books have been published on black holes for a popular audience—testimony to our enduring fascination with these areas of spacetime from which nothing, not even light, can escape. Lynn Gamwell, author of Conjuring the Void—a beautiful book that looks at both scientific and artistic images of black holes—talks us through five of her favourites, including a PhD thesis that has not yet been published as a book.
