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Eureka
谢介绍--如果对宇宙人类的起源生和死人类和创造者个关系等等有兴趣,如果对现代物理量子物理等有点兴趣,会惊讶于坡奇妙--这本书。
在序言中,他献此书“To the few who love me and whom I love- to those who feel rather than to those who think- to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in the only realities- I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character of Truth-Teller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth; constituting it true. To these I present the composition as an Art-Product alone:- let us say as a Romance; or, if I be not urging too lofty a claim, as a Poem.
What I here propound is true:- * therefore it cannot die:- or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will "rise again to the Life Everlasting." ”
他自己认为此书是他的主要成就,很多当代学者认为此书是理解坡的作品的钥匙。 “Poe regarded Eureka as his Magnum Opus, the culmination of his life's work. Written out of the tragedy of his young wife's death from consumption in 1847 after an oppressive five years of suffering, Eureka is Poe's inspired view of life and the universe. Amazingly, Poe seems to anticipate some of the theories of modern science: the time/space continuum, the expanding and contracting universe, a general proposition akin to chaos theory and an explanation (still a valid theory) for why the sky is dark at night. Professor Edward Harrison, in Darkness at Night (Harvard University Press, 1987), an astronomy book, devotes a chapter to Poe, saying "The first clear and correct solution to the riddle of darkness, though only qualitatively expressed, came from Edgar Allan Poe, the renowned poet, essayist, critic and amateur scientist...in [his] imaginative masterpiece, Eureka: A Prose Poem."
“Many modern scholars see it as the key to all of Poe's writings: It has been said that if one understands Eureka, one can unlock the mystery of all Poe's work.” 引自http://www.astin-poe.com/eureka.html
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