Edgar Allan Poe's engagement with American science

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Post by webmaven » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 7:58 AM UTC

Edgar Allan Poe's engagement with American science
salon.com

Re: Edgar Allan Poe's engagement with American science

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Post by sgz » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 8:14 AM UTC

Not explained at length in the article, Poe’s “Eureka” gives answer to Olbers' paradox, formulated in 1823, intuitively conjecturing the finite age of the universe more than a century before that the non steady-state model of cosmology was starting to be accepted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers'_paradox

Re: Edgar Allan Poe's engagement with American science

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Post by neonate » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 1:45 PM UTC

https://archive.is/1zX7D

Re: Edgar Allan Poe's engagement with American science

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Post by leephillips » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 2:19 PM UTC

sgz wrote: post #2

Not explained at length in the article, Poe’s “Eureka” gives answer to Olbers' paradox, formulated in 1823, intuitively conjecturing the finite age of the universe more than a century before that the non steady-state model of cosmology was starting to be accepted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers'_paradox

Sadly, the Salon article garbles Poe’s correct resolution of the paradox, but it is correctly stated in Alberto Cappi’s paper that it refers to.