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Article: The earth whirls everywhere.
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- Poetry
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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The spheres of science and poetry probably intersect in all eleven dimensions, for poems, like discoveries, spring from insights of unusual acumen, expressed in concise, often symbolic language. I sincerely believe that E=M[C.sup.2] could be construed as haiku.
When I was writing Longitude, I searched poetry anthologies for epigraphs that would open each chapter with a link between science and art--as a way to invite the non-scientist into the technical world of astronomers, clock-makers, and cartographers. I was surprised but elated to find that Lord Byron had included reference to "the best time-piece made by Harrison" (the inventor of the marine chronometer) ...
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