{"id":1297,"date":"2023-02-21T04:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T08:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/a-victorian-portal-to-wonder-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-02-21T04:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T08:24:23","slug":"a-victorian-portal-to-wonder-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/a-victorian-portal-to-wonder-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"A Victorian Portal to Wonder \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cScience describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside,\u201d Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in her wonderful meditation on subjectifying the universe<\/a>. \u201cScience explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe.\u201d<\/p>\n

We have a word for that common celebration: wonder \u2014 the sense that the world is strange and beautiful, and we are hovering on the edge between understanding and awe as we behold the naked poetry of reality. <\/p>\n

A century and a half before Le Guin, a century and a half before the inception of The Universe in Verse<\/em><\/a>, the polymathic scientist and poet Robert Hunt<\/strong> (September 6, 1807\u2013October 17, 1887) explored the consonance and complementarity of these twin languages of wonder in his 1848 book The Poetry of Science; or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a> | public domain<\/em><\/a>) \u2014 an ambitious summation of all the major discoveries of science to that point, from gravity and light to the molecular forces and the reproduction of plants, revealing the poetry and aesthetic ecstasy inside the scientific facts.<\/p>\n

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