Permutations: Readings in science and literature

by Joan Digby (Editor), Bob Brier (Editor), John Digby (Illustrator)

Book by Joan Digby n Bob Brier, editors

397 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Joan Digby is Professor of English at C.W. Post College of Long Island University, U.S.A., and has strong interests both in the arts and in science. She has written on such varied subjects as Goya and eighteenth-century natural history, and was working on an anthology of literature about science.
In collaboration with her husband she has written a collection of prose poems to illustrate his collages entitled A Sound of Feathers, as well as a number of magazine articles on contemporary collage.

Reviews

[Forked Radish]

“Swift regarded science as a sterile activity” A sterile activity regarding humonkeys! Swift described not only flying saucers, but also their propulsion system. He also accurately described the twin moons of Mars long before humonkeys “discovered” them!