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Cultural Consequences of Industrial Revolution - Coggle Diagram
Cultural Consequences of Industrial Revolution
Romanticism
Romantic Author Edgar Pou
Science considers only rationality which limits his imaginations as a poet. Because of Science, the old myths about nymphs and nature have lost their power, and poets can no longer dream easily.
Poe often picks fights with science in his poetry
Initiates the debate: the advancement of the science of the modern world versus the imagination, values and ideals found in nature and in the human soul.
In his work "true daughter of Old Time", the poet seems upset that Science, the daughter of Time, should prey upon the heart of the poet. He uses the image of the vulture for Science.
"Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities? How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise, Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies, Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?"
Imagination
Poe wrote Eureka: A Prose Poem, right before his death.
delirious book: a cosmological treatise on the origin, expansion, and collapse of the material universe that takes the form at various points of a prose poem, a polemic, a scientific report, and a malicious joke.
The “machinery of the universe” could be, as Poe memorably guessed, disclosed “through mere dint of intuition”
For Poe, all the imaginings contained in Eureka—the prescient as well as the flighty or far-fetched—had the weight of indisputable truths.
Poe saw the universe as more than a formal template. It was an object of serious, if speculative, research—a subject about which he had definite, firm ideas.
Poe says that Newton deduced gravoty from the laws of Kepler. And he says Kepler "guessed—these laws whose investigation disclosed to the greatest of British astronomers that principle"
Fiction, Adventure, Travel
Adventure Literature Author Jules Verne
Verne was different than the writers of his day because he preferred to write accounts of imaginary trips beyond anything these others had ever dared
center of the earth
around the world in eighty
the bottom
of the sea
to the moon
Published a book called From the Earth to the Moon
Verne’s account of a lunar expedition
penned more than a century before the Apollo mission
at least half of the book is devoted to discussing, debating and hypothesizing on scientific matters
he anticipated many
details of the later Apollo journey
The starting point: he
launches his astronauts within a two hour drive of Cape Canaveral
the size of the capsule and the duration of the trip
Verne uses his imagination and "bends" scientific facts to match his story
When Ted Gioia analyzed the book and tried to check some of the sources cited by Verne, he came up empty-handed
Verne also must be seen as one of the first to call attention to what was later dubbed the “military-industrial complex.”
His nineteenth century space program is the result of the armaments industry in the US trying to cope with the end of the Civil War
“to boldly go
where no man has gone before.”
Verne acknowledges scientific findings of Galieu, Newton, and Kepler but doesn't always state facts. modifies them
