In Fault, Katharine Coles continues to explore her abiding interest in
the intersections of science, culture, and history, but the book is
perhaps best described as an extended meditation on love. Ranging across
time and continents, Coles addresses such figures as Newton, Kepler, and
Vesalius, not only with intellectual rigor but also with a humor,
intimacy, and buoyant optimism that render her subjects--the figures and
the science--accessible within the capacious intellectual, emotional,
and physical landscapes of the poems.