[Read now] The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs (Science and Literature)
☆ John Canaday ☆
| #1464386 in Books | 2000-08-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.90 x6.00l,1.01 | File Name: 0299168549 | 340 pages
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"The existence of ‘the bomb’ as a literary device is, Canaday demonstrates, as significant as its military and political reality. A fascinating and literate glimpse at the words, metaphors, texts, and subtexts that have shaped our nuclear age
John Canaday analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during, and after the Second World War, including Niels Bohr’s "The Quantum Postulate"; the Blegdamsvej Faust, a parody of Goethe’s Faust that cast physicists as its principle characters; The Los Alamos Primer, the technical lectures used for training at Los Alamos; scientists’ descriptions of their work and of the Trinity test; and Leo Szilard’s... [PDF.xm43] The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs (Science and Literature) Rating: 3.79 (690 Votes)
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