Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination
2017
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Livre de David N. Stamos · 2017
Genres : Philosophie, Sciences, Littérature & linguistiqueIn 1848, almost a year and a half before Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of forty, his book Eureka was published. In it, he weaved together his scientific speculations about the universe with his own literary theory, theology, and philosophy of science. Although Poe himself considered it to be his magnum opus, Eureka has mostly been overlooked or underappreciated, sometimes even to the point of being thought an elaborate hoax. Remarkably, however, in Eureka Poe anticipated at least nine major... Voir plus
