In 1844, readers of the New York Sun vis-à-vis the sensational feature story, in which the adventurer who flew over the Atlantic Ocean, as well as lighter-than-air balloon. Although the Declaration was presented a wonderful technical details, such as news, the story of the author, Edgar Allan Poe, had done it.
But the master of the macabre was the thing or two about science, has pulled off a convincing hoax know said John Tresch, University of Pennsylvania historian of science. [1] [2] in fact, Poe, who wrote the origin of the universe and Cosmology, sometimes considered to be one of the earliest science fiction writers.
"Poe was fully in line with the State of tune everything that had to take place with his time in science," said Tresch, who speak "experiments, Edgar Allan Poe" on Thursday night is about Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia.
Susan Glassman, Director of Wagner, historic, Victorian era of Science Museum "the one thing most people do not know about Poe is he actually knew something about science," said.
Poe published even collect-textbook amateur bark more prejudice to one of his projects.
"We thought, it was the subject of the full implementation of the October," Glassman said."It combines the Mission-the history and science, in two parts."
It was a Poe, which is directed towards the history of science Tresch. Many people, such as Tresch was read and loved by Poe's "the Tell Tale Heart," which buries his victim and thinks, he shall consult the continuing to win the heart of the story of a murderer.
But then, the College, the size of several French Tresch became a raving about this brilliant authors philosopher Edgar Allan Poe.
"I realized that Poe had to do things far wider than just tales horror and insanity," said Tresch. Some credit Poe modern science fiction programme identifies such stories as "the Masque of the Red Death," which describes the anonymous in the event of an epidemic, and the story about Comet hitting on the setting-up of the country.
Graduate school said Tresch, he studied Poe's balloon hoax.Poe described in detail in a rich story of the newspaper feat. that the article helped the factorial, sold thousands of extra copies before the Sun editors crushed obliquely on the next day.
Poe's knowledge of science and technology are likely to be entered in his West Point, where he was a member of the cadet 1830 investigations.Poe also lived in Philadelphia for a period of six years from the year 1838.
In addition, begin to implement on their own to showcase other hoaxes Poe was known, most famously, the claim that someone had built the robot-automaton, time in a language-which could win the masters world chess. Tresch, said that he wanted to give the trick behind the hoax, but he reveal its Thursday night.
It take 150 years or so before the IBM created the actual computer Deep Blue that will win the world's best Chess player.
Poe was not willing skeptic, said she was fascinated Tresch. According to the now discredited in the form of mesmerism, hypnotism, who was a popular Poe's in a timely manner.Along with the mysterious substance Mesmerism, which believers argued that pervaded space and could be dealt with in the minds of the people affected is known.
A lot of real science also had running on time-people were fascinated to electricity and Magnetism and telescopes are to investigate the use of the universe.
Big bang theory before the end of the 19th century had came to nebular theory according to which the stars and planets were born in the cloudy kaasusumuineen, such as visible Orion's belt with one.
The idea was scandalous works, as defined by the execution of the biblical image creation, said the Nebular theory Tresch. solar system was one of the many who are born and die, he said.
Poe's detective story "murders in the Rue Morgue" his Sherlock Holmes-type character to the stare of the Orion Nebula, now known as the new stars and is likely to be a new photo-voltaic at birth.
Poe's work is full of scientific references for Tresch said.
The fact that he said Poe's stories are deeply received in the first half of the 19th century, in the case of conflict between the universe that the era of mechanical science presented the view and the so-called romantic flick espoused with the image the more holistic.
the topics in the 19th century saw the birth of backlash against science, suggests that the fight against trafficking in human beings was connected to everything else in the universe of the universe, and that worked as one large organism. Romantics anonyymipalvelimien Reductionism, they saw in science and, on the other hand, the understanding of the intuition through the prized.
Today, Antinori people struggled to understand what science was, telling them of the free will and Determinism, the nature of God.
Poe was born the same year as Charles Darwin-1809-but you do not live long enough to see the 1859 publication is the origin of species, Darwin, is used in science to show that that right of at least about the romantics were the relationship between humanity and all other living things.
In 1848 the short life of close to Poe's he published his own natural history-is known as Eureka work. "It was a straight up Cosmological, scientific work, "said Tresch. on the Poe attempted to reconcile the Romantic view of the pro-science, pro-technology in the world. [1] [2] However, Eureka, had not been very good reception.
It weaves the Pseudoscience and aroused some controversy and speculation until it reaches the border inspection post, try to paint a new picture of God, is not described in the Bible, but a great poet of the unit-something like Poe, yourself.
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