Collection of brief poetic-scientific thoughts (Twitter)

Scientific poetry is in the minds of scientists who do not always know the words to describe it.

It is also in the minds of poets who marvel at a science they may not fully understand.

Poetry and science seem to be antagonistic at first view but at some point, they find the chemical bonds that join the words. The verses follow the correct curves in the three-dimensional space of the world. The emotions of the endocrine system spill out into stanzas: and a soul of schists becomes sensitive when writing a poem…scientific, of course.

Here is a collection of brief poetic-scientific thoughts that the polyhedron has found in its virtual trips through Twitter.

 

Scientific poetry: The number one, by Fernando Celada

Fernando Celada was a Mexican poet who was born in Xochimilco at the end of the 19th century. His most known poem is "The fall of the leaves". I read this poem for the first time in a book in Spanish entitled "The 1000 best poems in the world literature" that a friend from high school lent me. In recent years, I have searched for the book but have not been able to find it. The book, as I remember, had an excellent selection of poems such as "The seminarian with the black eyes" by Miguel Ramos Carrión, which was the first poem of that book that caught my attention and I loved it.

A few years later, however, I had the opportunity to meet the poet's grandson, the engineer Manuel Celada, who worked with my father in the disappeared National Railways of Mexico. 

Fernando Celada was also a social fighter and his poetry gave words to the workers class. At present, his poems are little known including the next one with a deep arithmetic reflection (the original version in Spanish is bellow):

Scientific poetry: Sonet to Science, by Edgar Allan Poe

Although the genre of scientific poetry has its roots in the ancient Rome, at the end of the 18th century and during the 19th century, due to the great advances in science, both scientists and poets wrote poems alluding to science. The American poet Edgar Allan Poe, famous for his poem “The Raven", among other literary works, wrote "Sonnet to Science" in 1829.

The English language of the original poem is a cultivated language with some terms that are no longer used today. Throughout the poem you can notice an almost reverential admiration of Poe to science that, absorbed, contemplates it forgetting the rest under a tamarind tree.

Here is the poem (and if you look for it in Spanish, please see this article in the Spanish version of this blog):