At the Crossroads of Science and Literature: Physics from Hell: How Dante’s Inferno Inspired Galileo’s Physics

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Spring 2012

This interdisciplinary course studies the lesser known natural historical records of European scientists alongside the more familiar literary works of Romantic Era poets and prose writers. We investigate the way all of these texts employ the non-human as that which restricts the human to, just as it emancipates the human from, the animal that it is (pointing toward Derrida). We consider the principles of taxonomy and natural aesthetics, the generation debates, and theories of evolution, in order to understand 18th- and 19th-century efforts at (re)presenting the natural world.

This blog serves a twofold purpose: as a collection of our critical responses to the works covered in this course and as an assemblage of our responses to each others' critiques.

At the Crossroads of Science and Literature

28 March 2012

Physics from Hell: How Dante’s Inferno Inspired Galileo’s Physics

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