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Two papers on Eureka by Alberto Cappi »

Edgar Allan Poe’s Physical Cosmology

December 11, 2011 by admin

By Alberto Cappi
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna

In this paper I describe the scientific content of Eureka, the prose poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1848. In that work, starting from metaphysical assumptions, Poe claims that the Universe is finite in an infinite Space, and that it originated from a primordial Particle, whose fragmentation under the action of a repulsive force caused a diffusion of atoms in space.

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