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A Note on the Author

Kitty Ferguson is the author of the highly acclaimed
Tycho & Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens
;
Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time
;
The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God
;
Prisons of Light: Black Holes
; and
Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything
. She is also a Juilliard-trained professional musician.