“Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a whole. The geography of the earth, or the structure of the solar system, are in an instant utterly changed, and forever. The explorer, the scientific observer, the literary reader, experience the Sublime: a moment of revelation into the idea of the unbounded, the infinite.”
― The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
― The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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