Science And Poetry

Author : Mary Midgley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134559558

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Science and Poetry by Mary Midgley Pdf

Crude materialism, reduction of mind to body, extreme individualism. All products of a 17th century scientific inheritance which looks at the parts of our existence at the expense of the whole. Cutting through myths of scientific omnipotence, Mary Midgley explores how this inheritance has so powerfully shaped the way we are, and the problems it has brought with it. She argues that poetry and the arts can help reconcile these problems, and counteract generations of 'one-eyed specialists', unable and unwilling to look beyond their own scientific or literary sphere. Dawkins, Atkins, Bacon and Descartes all come under fire as Midgely sears through contemporary debate, from Gaia to memes, and organic food to greenhouse gases. After years of unquestioned imperialism, science is finally forced to take a step back and acknowledge the arts.

Author : Tom McLeish
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192518910

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The Poetry and Music of Science by Tom McLeish Pdf

What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in the second case but not the first. This book challenges the assumption that doing science is in any sense less creative than art, music or fictional writing and poetry, and treads a historical and contemporary path through common territories of the creative process. The methodological process called the 'scientific method' tells us how to test ideas when we have had them, but not how to arrive at hypotheses in the first place. Hearing the stories that scientists and artists tell about their projects reveals commonalities: the desire for a goal, the experience of frustration and failure, the incubation of the problem, moments of sudden insight, and the experience of the beautiful or sublime. Selected themes weave the practice of science and art together: visual thinking and metaphor, the transcendence of music and mathematics, the contemporary rise of the English novel and experimental science, and the role of aesthetics and desire in the creative process. Artists and scientists make salient comparisons: Defoe and Boyle; Emmerson and Humboldt, Monet and Einstein, Schumann and Hadamard. The book draws on medieval philosophy at many points as the product of the last age that spent time in inner contemplation of the mystery of how something is mentally brought out from nothing. Taking the phenomenon of the rainbow as an example, the principles of creativity within constraint point to the scientific imagination as a parallel of poetry.

Author : Sam Illingworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526152266

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A Sonnet to Science by Sam Illingworth Pdf

A sonnet to science presents an account of six ground-breaking scientists who also wrote poetry, and the effect that this had on their lives and research. How was the universal computer inspired by Lord Byron? Why was the link between malaria and mosquitos first captured in the form of a poem? Whom did Humphry Davy consider to be an 'illiterate pirate'? Written by leading science communicator and scientific poet Dr Sam Illingworth, A sonnet to science presents an aspirational account of how these two disciplines can work together, and in so doing aims to convince both current and future generations of scientists and poets that these worlds are not mutually exclusive, but rather complementary in nature.

Author : Forrest Gander
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811213811

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Science & Steepleflower by Forrest Gander Pdf

A breakthrough book for award-winning poet Forrest Gander, whose richness of language and undaunted lyric passion place him in traditions ranging from Emily Dickinson to Michael Ondaatje. His poems in leading journals plumb the erotic depths of human interaction with the land. The poems in SCIENCE & STEEPLEFLOWER test this relationship with what PUBLISHERS WEEKLY has called "an inbred (and often haunting) spirituality", bringing us to new vistas of linguistic and perceptive grace.

Author : Nancy Gorrell
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Creative writing (Secondary education)
ISBN : 1845534409

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Writing Poetry Through the Eyes of Science by Nancy Gorrell Pdf

'Writing Poetry Through the Eyes of Science' presents a unique & effective interdisciplinary approach to teaching science poems & science poetry writing in secondary English & science classrooms.

Author : Robert Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Science
ISBN : NYPL:33433066334503

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The Poetry of Science by Robert Hunt Pdf

Author : Catherine G. Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429595509

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Milton in the New Scientific Age by Catherine G. Martin Pdf

Milton and the New Scientific Age represents significant advantages over all previous volumes on the subject of Milton and science, as it includes contributions from top scholars and prominent beginners in a broad number of fields. Most of these fields have long dominated work in both Milton and seventeenth-century studies, but they have previously not included the relatively new and revolutionary topic of early modern chemistry, physiology, and medicine. Previously this subject was confined to the history of science, with little if any attention to its literary development, even though it prominently appears in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, which also includes early "science fiction" speculations on aliens ignored by most readers. Both of these oversights are corrected in this essay collection, while more traditional areas of research have been updated. They include Milton’s relationship both to Bacon and the later or Royal Society Baconians, his views on astronomy, and his "vitalist" views on biology and cosmology. In treating these topics, our contributors are not mired in speculations about whether or not Milton was on the cutting edge of early science or science fiction, for, as nearly all of them show, the idea of a "cutting edge" is deeply anachronistic at a time when most scientists and scientific enthusiasts held both fully modern and backward-looking beliefs. By treating these combinations contextually, Milton’s literary contributions to the "new science" are significantly clarified along with his many contemporary sources, all of which merit study in their own right.

Author : Sylvia M. Vardell,Janet S. Wong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Children's poetry, American
ISBN : 1937057984

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The Poetry of Science by Sylvia M. Vardell,Janet S. Wong Pdf

"In this book you'll find 248 poems about science, technology, engineering, math-- and all your favorite topics! If you like learning about animals, machines, Earth and space, famous scientists, science projects, and how things work...you'll find a ton of poems to inspire you. Read about being a citizen scientist, an inventor, an engineer, a video game programmer, and astronaut & more!"--

Author : Ruth Padel
Publisher : Random House
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409075370

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Darwin by Ruth Padel Pdf

In these extraordinary poems, using multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and even, at one point, the orangutang at London Zoo - Ruth Padel illuminates the development of Darwin's thought, the drama of the discovery of evolution, and the fluctuating emotions of Darwin the husband, the naturalist and the tender father, in a powerful tribute to her famous ancestor. Shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Poetry Award.

Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571312706

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Cross-pollinations by Gary Paul Nabhan Pdf

A pioneering ethnobotanist, Gary Paul Nabhan credits the arts with sparking unlikely scientific breakthroughs and believes that such "cross-pollination" engenders new forms of expression that are essential to discovery. In this highly readable book, he tells four stories to illustrate this idea. In the first, coping with color blindness in art class leads to his career as a scientist; in the second, ancient American Indian songs, when translated, reveal an understanding of plants and animals that rivals modern research; in the third, a poem inspires an approach to diabetes using desert plants; and in the fourth, a coalition of scientists and artists creates the Ironwood Forest National Monument in the Sonoran Desert.

Author : Priscilla Long
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780826323965

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Crossing Over by Priscilla Long Pdf

"Priscilla Long would take a bridge anywhere to reach her lost sister, and these poems are replete with bridges literal and metaphoric. In her quest and resolve, these words resonate from 'Kaddish for Susanne': 'All praise to all that is.'"--Carole Simmons Oles, author of A Selected History of Her Heart: Poems

Author : Leigh Kotsilidis
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770562998

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Hypotheticals by Leigh Kotsilidis Pdf

Science is a useful metaphor for understanding our lives, but it is often shown to be as fallible as the flawed humans who lean on it. This lively, thoughtful, and refreshingly speculative debut collection turns scientific method around to question science's faith in certainty, exploring the alternate meaning of "hypothetical" as something that is merely "supposed to be true." Under the poet's wide-angled, open-hearted gaze, scientific investigation begins to mirror the dark art of poetry, reinforcing what we believe about ourselves one minute, then abruptly throwing everything into question. Leigh Kotsilidis lives in Montreal, Quebec, where she works as a freelance graphic designer while completing her MFA in studio arts.

Author : Franny Choi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1938584996

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Soft Science by Franny Choi Pdf

Choi pairs complex pain with striking images, wrapping readers in mystical interpretations and then captures them within reality.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Children's poetry, American
ISBN : 1937057976

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The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science (K-5 Teacher/Librarian Edition) by Anonim Pdf

"A treasury of the greatest science poetry for children ever written, with a twist" (NSTA Recommends) THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY FOR SCIENCE (K-5 Teacher/Librarian Edition) features 218 poems by 78 award-winning and popular poets connecting science with reading and language arts. Take 5! activities highlight concepts and topics identified in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) plus state science standards such as the Texas TEKS. The "Take 5!" activities also incorporate the literacy skills identified in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Poetry TEKS. This book makes it easy to incorporate STEM and language arts. There are several easy ways to use this book: Match poems and science lessons using the weekly themes or the index at the back of the book to identify relevant science topics. Add poetry sharing to a planned science lesson by taking one minute to read aloud a science poem to set the stage for the instruction. Or end with a poem to reinforce the concepts introduced in a science lesson and build knowledge retention. * * * The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science includes poems by 78 poets: Newbery and Newbery Honor winners Margarita Engle, Linda Sue Park, and Joyce Sidman; National Book Award winner Virginia Euwer Wolff; Children's Poet Laureates Mary Ann Hoberman, J. Patrick Lewis, and Kenn Nesbitt; and more, with Spanish bilingual poems by Alma Flor Ada, Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, F. Isabel Campoy, Margarita Engle, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, and Carmen Tafolla. Pair this Teacher's Edition with THE POETRY OF SCIENCE (the illustrated companion Student Edition, arranged by theme). For more information about the other books in THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY series, see www.PomeloBooks.com.

Author : Madhur Anand
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780771006982

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A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes by Madhur Anand Pdf

A striking poetic debut that brilliantly illuminates and celebrates the intersection of poetry and science, and the ways they can mediate our discovery of the world and our place in it. Originating from her living room, backyard garden, university office, or the field sites in boreal or tropical forests, the poems in Madhur Anand’s captivating debut collection compose a lyric science; they bring order and chaos together into a unified theory of predicting catastrophes, large and small. Anand’s ecologist poetics are sophisticated and original; her voice is an “index,” a way of cataloguing and measuring the world and human experience, and of illuminating the interconnectedness at the heart of all things. Narrating the beauty of her perceived world, the poems unabashedly embrace the scintillant language of scientific evidence as they interrogate crises of personal and global concern. The result is a poetry that is as complex as it is compassionate. Anand’s modernist intervention into “nature” poetry is a sparkling addition to poetics in Canada and beyond.