I'm really not at all sure what to think of this essay. Apparently it's Poe's last great work and he himself thought of it as an enormous breakthrough in thinking. Also it begins with some of his characteristic snideness, leading some readers to wonder if it wasn't a put on, one more jab at the tran

”...All Things and All Thoughts of Things, with all their ineffable Multiplicity of relation, sprang at once into being from the primordial and irrelative One.”

Nel 1848 Edgar Allan Poe era uno scrittore affermato e riconosciuto come eccezionale romanziere eppure durante una conferenza tenutasi quell’anno a New York egli si dimostró essere anche un ottimo filosofo naturalista proponendo una dissertazione sull’origine dell’universo.

Nella sua intuizione convi

3.5 Stars
rounded up to 4 Stars for its ingenious insights and uncanny intuitive predictions and in showing the readers his beliefs which were the foundations behind his writing A Descent Into the Maelström and MS Found in a Bottle. This is a book one does not gulp down but sips slowly.

"To the f

Poe describes the big bang 80 years before its "confirmation", talks ostensably about black holes & and synthesizes eastern philosophy with western cosmology.

The traditionally celebrated fiction writer does all this while explicitly arguing that imagination can be as important as fact and deduction

A wild work with suggestions at a Big Bang, mention of the principle of relativity in passing, and subtle clues for the existence of the Higgs boson, as well as dark matter. A very unique and intensely imaginative (un)scientific treatise on science praised by Einstein himself.

Да је Едгар Алан По највећи писац у историји људског рода није нам непознато, као ни чињеница да су његова дјела веома разгалила моје младалачко срце кад сам био млад. Почео сам да га читам мислим у седмом или осмом основне и вјероватно је његова кривица што сам стално добијао јединице из лектире у