The good and the bad! In chronological order:

Lucretius (96 BC) Link to heading

• On the Nature of Things: Dance of Atoms (50 BC)

Edgar Allen Poe (1809) Link to heading

• Sonnet to Science (Olbers Paradox) (1848)

James Clerk Maxwell (1831) Link to heading

Terrible poet but entertaining nonetheless

• Rigid Body Sings (

• A Problem in Dynamics

John Updike (1932) Link to heading

• Cosmic Gall (on Neutrinos)