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A comment on Edgar Allan Poe's engagement with American science.

Re:Edgar Allan Poe's engagement with American science by sgz on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:14AM (#27969898)
Not explained at length in the article, Poe’s “Eureka” gives answer to Olbers' paradox, formulated in 1823, intuitively conjecturing the finite age of the universe more than a century before that the non steady-state model of cosmology was starting to be accepted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers'_paradox

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Re:Edgar Allan Poe's engagement with American science by leephillips on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @10:19AM (#27972761)
Sadly, the Salon article garbles Poe’s correct resolution of the paradox, but it is correctly stated in Alberto Cappi’s paper that it refers to.
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