Status Updates From Eureka (Alma Classics 101 P...

“as we proceed along the road, we see these objects changing their positions, respectively, in relation to a certain fixed point in that portion of the firmament which forms the background of the view. […] We then go on to perceive that the farther the objects are from us, the less they alter their positions. […] Now this […] is what we call “parallax;” and by parallax we calculate the distances…”

Einstein said of this Work:
„eine schöne Leistung eines ungewöhnlich selbständigen Geistes.“
“a beautiful achievement of an unusually independent mind.”

I tend to believe that most modern science is just obfuscation and fraud. I don’t believe science’s most ardent zealots nor any scientist in history could backup with honest evidence the modern claims. The evidence is faked to support a worldview

It is claimed that here Poe ‘pre-saged’ /Hypothesised much of modern Pop Cosmology decades before the ideas had been “proven”

Big Bang:
“All Things […] sprang at one into being from the primordial and irrelative One.”

Multiverse:
“There does exist a limitless succession of Universes, more or less similar to that of which we have cognizance”

Space Time Continuum:
“Space and Duration are one.”

This is NOT a “Prose Poem” but his Philosophical Treatise focused on Epistemology and Metaphysics.

I’m listening via LibriVox while engaging in other tasks and so will not be able to give this a proper review once completed as I would need to sit down with a physical copy of the text in front of me & slowly understand line by line his exact thoughts.

However the work appears to be very original & reactionary.

Creo que la última vez que intenté leerlo tenía como 18 años, espero que esta vez, una década después, logre entender...

Considerando que amo a Poe y por lo tanto ya me leí toda su obra poética y un 90 y algo por ciento de su narrativa, este es su texto más difícil de leer 🤔