Eureka
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (507 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 025202849X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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An extremely versatile writer best known for his tales of terror and the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe holds a remarkable place in the history of American literature.
'I have found it!' he breathlessly seems to announce." . "Eureka, Poe's testament, the synthesis of his analytic ideas, offers itself as a treatise on nothing less than cosmology. It may be read as a rationalistic counterstatement to the metaphysics of Transcendentalism, or as a pioneering experiment in the embryonic genre of science fiction. 'Eureka!' is his heart-cry. Having begun as a scientific lecture, it winds up as an apocalyptic revelation
"Well-Researched Edition of Eureka by Stuart and Susan Levine" according to Patrick Moore LMT Educator. The rest of the reviews on this page are about Poe's Eureka, a brilliant piece of literature that threatens to solve the riddle of life, the universe, and everything.I just want readers to see that this is not another ordinary reprint of Eureka, which has lost copyright and so is freely available on the internet, along with all of Poe's work. Why buy a $20 book when you can get it for free? I'll tell you why.This book edited by Stuart and Susan Levine goes by Poe's proposed edits that were not published. Each page has 51 pages of footnotes after the text, explanations of what Poe was saying in relation to the understandi. Very Interesting----Poe wrote this???! Ok, I was shocked to see a science book written by Edgar Allan Poe. He himself calls it a poemok, Poe, poem.I'm into astronomy so I thought, why not? Well, here's the thing. It strikes me as a serious work---a sort of explanation of how the Universe was seen in 18Very Interesting----Poe wrote this???! Chris Reich Ok, I was shocked to see a science book written by Edgar Allan Poe. He himself calls it a poemok, Poe, poem.I'm into astronomy so I thought, why not? Well, here's the thing. It strikes me as a serious work---a sort of explanation of how the Universe was seen in 1848. I found the reading to be a grind from time to time. I wondered why I was reading "outdated" science. I wondered why I was reading Poe's outdated science. Sometimes I was bored with it.Then againsometimes I was really gripped by the thoughts and the expressionsman, this guy can write. And I was continually amazed at his knowledgenot only just for the time. A. 8. I found the reading to be a grind from time to time. I wondered why I was reading "outdated" science. I wondered why I was reading Poe's outdated science. Sometimes I was bored with it.Then againsometimes I was really gripped by the thoughts and the expressionsman, this guy can write. And I was continually amazed at his knowledgenot only just for the time. A. Poe's Pinnacle Work on the Creation of the Universe Brett J. Millan Written in 1848, Eureka, one of Edgar Allan Poe's last works, propounds his theory of the creation of the material and spiritual universe. In his preface, Poe says "it is as a Poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead." However, a reader would find it hard to consider Eureka a poem of any sort when the author spends three-quarters of the work expounding, through philosophical proof, a scientific belief in an essay format. Poe's belief is that "Gravity exists on account of Matter's having been radiated, at its origin, atomically, into a limited sphere of Space, from one, individual, unconditional, irrel
The result of their meticulous scholarship is a deep, broad, and thoroughly useful volume, essential for Poe scholars and valuable to anyone interested in American literature or the roots of science fiction.. what its future might be, this user-friendly critical edition is also the first to put Eureka in proper context. Put in the context of Melville's Moby Dick, Thoreau's Walden, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and the music of Liszt and Wagner, it is an explosive, startlingly unconventional creation of the High Romantic era. Scholarly annotated edition of Poe's Eureka; Originally published in 1848,