Moving Objects, Moved Observers
On the Treatment of the Problem of Relativity in Poetic Texts and Scientific Prose
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14670835 |
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| Authors | Ulrich Stadler (University of Zurich, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 607-627 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science in Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0269889705000682 |
| OpenAlex | W2141628468 |
| Language | EN |
Argument When Copernicus pointed out that the apparent movement of the sun was in fact the effect of the rotation of the earth, he explained his view by referring to a passage in Virgil's Aeneid . Thus he established the link between science and literature. This topic recurred frequently in both science and literature whenever the question of the relativity of motion arose. In this article, I will focus above all on two authors who took up this question: Ernst Mach and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Moreover I will try to show the different roles of scientific and literary prose in the works of Mach and in Hofmannsthal's Das Glück am Weg (1893)
Art · Astronomy · Classical mechanics · Copernicus · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Mach number · Mechanics · Optics · Physics · Poetry · Theoretical physics · Theory of relativity · Chemistry · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Philosophy · Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry
| Highly cited | No |
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