Alchemy and Dark Energy: boundaries of poetic science

In a previous video I started talking about the those places within language and thought at which the poetic nature of these activites becomes evident, particularly at the boundaries of empirical science. One such boundary, it seems to me, exists within time, the trailing edge being sometime in the seventeenth century and the leading edge being sharpened daily in labs around the world today. These liminal moments when empirical science either was just coming into being as a genre of thought, or is just advancing toward new expressions of the genre, are marked by a use of words and ideas which are not typical of mainstream empiricism but are clearly and overtly 'poetic'.

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• science
• epistemology
• empiricism
• history
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• Bacon
• Roger
• Kepler
• Copernicus
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• dark
• energy
• matter
• poetics
• metaphor