The Spring 2017 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Discovery, is now on newsstands. With original essays by Lewis H. Lapham, Samantha Hunt, Kea Krause, Robert Moor, and Susan Brind Morrow; Voices in Time contributions from Abu Hatim al-Razi, Margaret Cavendish, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Emily Dickinson, Alfred Döblin, Galileo Galilei, Loren Eiseley, Alberto Manguel, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Vera Rubin, Nikola Tesla, and others; and art by Albert Bierstadt, Tintoretto, and others.
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INTRODUCTORY
Program Notes | Among the Contributors
Map | Great Migrations
Preamble | Lewis H. Lapham, Homo Faber
VOICES IN TIME
To Strive
2014: Los Angeles | Ross Andersen
1899: Colorado Springs | Nikola Tesla
c. 60: Rome | Seneca
1615: Florence | Galileo Galilei
1791: Birmingham | Joseph Priestley
1934: Harlem | George S. Schuyler
1802: Somerset | Samuel Taylor Coleridge & William Wordsworth
1883: New York City | Steven Millhauser
1823: Timisoara | János Bolyai
1969: Philadelphia | Loren Eiseley
c. 80: Antioch | Gospel According to Matthew
1595: Graz | John Banville
1986: Washington, DC | Vera Rubin
1642: Batavia | Dutch East India Company
c. 1225: France | Quest of the Holy Grail
1912: Antarctica | Evan S. Connell
c. 2300 bc: Egypt | Autobiography of Harkhuf
1888: Turin | Friedrich Nietzsche
1847: Vienna | Louis-Ferdinand Céline
c. 1900: New Haven | Muriel Rukeyser
1673: Keokuk, IA | Jacques Marquette
1898: Paris | Ève Curie
1816: London | John Keats
1812: Paris | Alexander von Humboldt
c. 50 bc: Sicily | Diodorus Siculus
To Seek
2013: Sierra Juárez | Burkhard Bilger
1665: Cambridge | Isaac Newton
1499: Padua | Polydore Vergil
1966: Botswana | Bessie Head
1620: London | Francis Bacon
1996: Toronto | Alberto Manguel
1862: Amherst, MA | Emily Dickinson
c. 930: Rayy | Abu Hatim al-Razi
2011: Washington, DC | Energy Tax Prevention Act
1562: Ávila | Saint Teresa of Ávila
1971: Chicago | Chicago Women’s Liberation Union
c. 400 bc: China | I Ching
1961: Calcutta | Satyajit Ray
1916: Zurich | Hugo Ball
c. 20: Rome | Strabo
1939: Princeton, NJ | Abraham Flexner
1666: Blazing World | Margaret Cavendish
1920: Philadelphia | Andrea Barrett
1789: Paris | Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
c. 200: Rome | Sextus Empiricus
1918: Berlin | Albert Einstein
1849: Downe | Charles Darwin
1930: Nonsuch Island | William Beebe
1474: Venice | Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets
To Find
c. 2500: United States | Ted Chiang
1911: Yorkshire | Frances Hodgson Burnett
77: Rome | Pliny the Elder
1949: Los Angeles | Raymond Chandler
c. 335 bc: Athens | Aristotle
1891: Berlin | Hermann von Helmholtz
1955: Paris | Claude Lévi-Strauss
2013: Normal, IL | Curtis White
1908: Paris | Rainer Maria Rilke
1435: Florence | Leon Battista Alberti
1935: Ramos Mejía | Jorge Luis Borges
1267: Paris | Roger Bacon
1895: Würzburg | Sam Kean
c. 1930: Patagonia | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1783: London | Horace Walpole
6684 AGC: Earth | Leszek Kolakowski
c. 1880: Río Santiago | María Sabina
c. 27 bc: Rome | Vitruvius
1913: Paris | Thomas Pynchon
139 bc: China | Sima Qian
1854: Nagasaki | Yukichi Fukuzawa
1957: Germany | Ernst Jünger
1665: London | Robert Hooke
1571: Seville | Nicolás Monardes
c. 1945: Austerlitz, NY | Edna St. Vincent Millay
1945: Los Angeles | Alfred Döblin
FURTHER REMARKS
Essays
How to Cross a Field of Snow | Robert Moor
Special Experience | Kea Krause
The Turning Sky | Susan Brind Morrow
Queer Theorem | Samantha Hunt
Departments
Conversations | Weil, Hesiod, Swift
Miscellany | Space Hygiene, Sea Nudity, Ancient Fruit
Glossary | Astrolabe, Fossick, Pig in a Poke
Sources | Readings & Art