Melville’s Curves: Mathematics and the Melvillean Imagination. Measuring a Cycloid in Moby-Dick
In this essay I reflect on the role mathematics plays in Melville’s works and imagination moving from one specific mathematical reference in chapter XCVI of Moby-Dick “The Try-Works.” Here Ishmael mentions the cycloid, a peculiar geometrical construct that was at the center of mathematical and philo...
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Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
2022-10-01
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| Colecção: | Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone |
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| Acesso em linha: | http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/47223 |
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