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Edgar Allan Poe's engagement with American science
- sgz 5y agoNot 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers'_paradox
- leephillips 5y agoSadly, 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.
- neonate 5y agohttps://archive.is/1zX7D https://archive.is/1zX7D