01779cam a22003133u 4500 32037 UtSlPG 20260610133730.0 m cr n 260607r2010||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 Eureka: A Prose Poem Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2010 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka:_A_Prose_Poem Release date is 2010-04-18 Produced by Meredith Bach, Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Eureka: A Prose Poem" by Edgar Allan Poe is a non-fiction work published in 1848. Adapted from a lecture, this ambitious essay presents Poe's intuitive vision of the universe's nature, exploring the physical and spiritual cosmos, man's relationship with God, and the soul's destiny beyond death. Poe considered it his greatest achievement—more important than Newton's discovery of gravity. Though contemporaries found it absurd, some ideas surprisingly anticipate modern cosmology. The work blends science, metaphysics, and Poe's trademark ratiocination in an unprecedented philosophical meditation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Cosmology https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32037 72883 72883