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Monday, September 22, 2014

When Edgar Allan Poe Looked Beyond The Stars

Eliza Strickland revisits his long prose-poem about the origins and fate of the universe, Eureka, which includes “a spookily intuitive description of the Big Bang theory more than 70 years before astrophysicists came up with the idea”: Scientists who have read Eureka in the decades since have justly called attention to errors in other parts […]

An interesting read via The Dish


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