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INDEX
Items indexed from the text of Eureka are listed by page number. The paragraphs of the text are numbered. Items indexed from our notes to Eureka are listed both by page and paragraph number. Thus “162 229n [[n229]]” refers to a note to paragraph 229 on page 162. Items indexed from the “Introduction” to Eureka are by page. A small n in that portion of the book refers to a sequential note on the page indicated: “xv n2.”
Act(s): Divine, 24, 25, 68; first and most sublime of, 62; First, 95; originating, 99. See also Creation
Adams, John Couch: 152n193
Adaptation: Divine, 61, 88, 89, 138-39n114, 140n133, 157n216, 158n216 [[157-58n216]], 158,n217 [[158n217]]. See also Bridgewater Treatises The; Reciprocity
Aether: 151n182. See also Erebus
Agathos: 166n243. See also “Power of Words”
“Aires [[Aries]] Tottle”: 9, 10, 11, 120n12, 122n14. See also Aristotle
Alcmaeon: On Nature, 152n191
Alpha Lyrae: 84, 85, 86, 155n204, n205, n209
Alterton, Margaret: Origins of Poe's Critical Theory, 127n24, 153-54n198, 154n199, 154n201, 169. See also Dick, Thomas, The Christian Philosopher
—— and Hardin Craig, Edgar Allan Poe, 163n231, 169
“American Drama, The”: 158n216, 158n218
American socialist utopian communities: 159n220
American Whig Review: 158n216. See also “American Drama, The”
Analogy: xviii, 70, 71, 89, 90, 91, 100, 143n153, 144n160, 160n220, 161n222
Andes: 18
Archimedes: 1l7 n on Title
Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm: DLX stellarum fixarum positiones mediae ineunte anno 1830, and Über die eigene Bewegung des Sonnensystems ..., 93, 163n231
Aristophanes: “The Clouds,” 145n162
Aristotelians: 12
Aristotle: 9, 10, 120n12, 121n13, 122n14
“Assignation, The”: 153n194
Asteroid(s): 58, 80, 83, 115, 147n173, 152n193
Astrea: 80, 152n193. See also Asteroid(s)
Astronomische Jarbuch: 153n193. See also Bode, Johann Elert; Bode, Law of
Atkinson, Charles Milner: Jeremy Bentham, 125n18, 169
Atkinson's Casket: 131n57. See also Electricity
Atom(s): xvii, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 52, 53, 55, 62, 64, 94, 95, 102, 130n45, 130n49, 130n50, 132n58 (See also Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppi [Roger Joseph])), 137n87, 138nn93-95, 138n111; Epicurian, 70, 147n171; original, 71, 131n52; system-atoms, 72, 100, 166n246; Titanic, 72, 100, 148n174
Attraction: xxiii, xxv, xxxiii, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 48, 54, 63, 79, 95, 102, 109, 115, 132n58, 163n231, 168n12
Awful present, the: 100
Azote: 158n217
Bacon, Delia Salter: 121n13
Bacon, Dr. Leonard: 121n13
Baconianism: 11
Bacon, Sir Francis: 12, 121n13, 122n13, 122n14
Bailey's beads: 143n155
Bailly: 30
Bailly, J. Sylvain: 133n62
Bally, Francis: 133n62
“Balloon-Hoax, The”: 118n7
Bathurst Island: 144n157. See also Melville islands
Baudelaire, Charles Pierre: xiin5
Beauty: xiii, xiv, xv, xxii, xxiii, 5, 118n7, 159n218
Beaver, Harold: ed., The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, 132n58, 136n77, 137n78, 137n84, 140n134, 141n135, 144n157, 144n161, 152n193, 153n193, 155n209, 156n213, 158n218, 159n220, 173
Bedlamite: 14
Beginning(s): 17, 21, 24, 48, 51, 89, 99, 139n118
Being, Divine: 105. See also God
“Bells, The”: 138n90
Bentham's Utilitarianism: 138n111
Benton, Richard P.: ed., Eureka a Prose Poem, 173; Poe as Literary Cosmologer, 169
“Berenice”: 117 n Preface, 119n1l
Berman, Louis, and J. C. Evans: Exploring the Cosmos, 148n178, 169
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Etudes, 119n11. See also Pollin, Burton R.
Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm: 155n209, 155-56n209, 159n220, 163n231
Bethune, John Drinkwater: Life of Kepler, 127n24
Biblical allusions: Daniel, 10, 122n13; I Corinthians, 83, 101, 154n202, 166n250; Genesis, 11, 23, 48, 123n16, 130n45, 139n118; Isaiah, 110, 168n5; John, 5, 117 n Preface; Luke, 61, 143n151-53; Matthew, 69, 147n169; Revelation, 110, 168n5
Bielfeld, Baron Jacob Friedrich: Les premier traits de l’érudition universelle ... / Elements of Universal Erudition ..., 21, 129n40, 132n58, 169-70
“Big Bang” theory: xxi, 143n153, 146n165
“Bilgewater”: 140n133. See also Twain, Mark
Birr Castle (telescope): 157n213. See also Rosse, Lord
Blackwood, Mr.: 134n71, 152n191
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine: 121n13
Bode, Johann Elert: 153n193
Bode, Law of (Bode's Law; Titius-Bode Law): 80, 152-53n193, 153n193
Body: 28, 30, 32, 61, 95, 114, 137n78; “The Body and the Soul,” xxiii, 54, 63, 140n133. See also Attraction; Electricity; Gravity
“Bon-Bon”: 120n12
Book of Truths: 5
Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppi (Roger Joseph): xxiii, xxiv, 132n58. See also Maddison, Carol Hopkins
Brandon, Ruth: The Spiritualists, 132n57, 170
Brewster, Sir David: 144-45n161, 170; reference to Optics, Letter on Magic, and articles in Edinburgh Encyclopedia, 161n223; reference to review of Comte, 146n163
Bridgewater Treatises, The: 140n133, 154n198, 157n216, 158n217, 158n218
Broadway Journal: announcement of New York edition of Cosmos, 118n9; discussion of Poe's rewording of translation of Kosmos, 164n232, on “fancy” and “imagination,” 128n35; reference to “mind's eye,” 155n203; reference to Nichol in review of Tayler Lewis, Plato Contra Athosa..., 163n230
Brook Farm: 159n220
Browne, Sir Thomas: 120n12, 170. See also Sneezing
Brunschvicg, M. Leon: 129n39, 172. See also Pascal, Blaise, Pensées
Bryant, Jacob: A New System; or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology, 31, 119n11, 133n65, 170
Bryant, William Cullen: “The Battlefield,” 117 n Preface
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle: Ernest Maltravers, 148n174; Pelham or Adventures of a Gentleman, 160n220
Burton's: 128n27
Butler, Benjamin F.: 117 n Preface
Cant: cant of “philosophies,” 30, 122n13, 161n220; issue of a C for a K, 10, 120-21n12. See also Kant, Immanuel
Cantalupo, Barbara: “Eureka: Poe's Novel Universe,” xvn2, 170
Carlson, Eric: The Recognition of Edgar Allan Poe, xxiin1, 169
Carlyle, Thomas: Sartor Resartus, xi, 124n18
Ceres: 80. See also Asteroid(s)
Champollion, Jean FrancoisL 15, 126n23
Chaos: 151n182
“Chapter of Suggestions, A”: 122n14
Cicero: De Natura Deorum, xiii; “Tusculan Disputations,” 152n191
Cincinnati: telescope of, 67, 145n163
Cist, Charles: Sketches and Statistics of Cincinnati, 145n163, 170
“Cloud-Land of Metaphysics”: 66, 145n162
Coleridge, Ernest Hartley: ed., The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 145n162, 170
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: 128n35, 135n71; “Fancy in Nubibus, or the Poet in the Clouds,” 145n162. See also “Cloud-Land of Metaphisics”
“Coloquy of Monos and Una, The”: xiii, 148n174
Columbia Spy: 157n213. See also Rosse, Lord
Comte, Auguste: 65, 67; Traite d’astronomie populaire, and Cours de philosophie positive, 144-45n161, 146n163
“Concentralization”: 31, 39, 137n85
“Concentrated Self”: 105
Condensation: 53, 55, 56, 57, 59, 62, 63, 65, 67, 68, 88, 115
Connor, Frederick W.: “Poe and John Nicholà,” 135n75, 135n76, 163n230, 170
“Conqueror Worm, The”: 168n5
“Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, The”: 110, 154n201
“Copernican principle”: 148n177
Correspondences: 160n220
“Cosmogony” (Encyclopedia Britannica entry, 1960): 147n173
Cosmos/ Kosmos: xi, xii, xiv, xxiv, xxvii, 8, 118n9, 148n178, 149-50n179, 155-56n209, 163n231, 163-64n232. See also Humboldt, Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von
Cossons, Neil: See Rees, Abraham
Cotopaxi: 118n7
Cowley, Malcolm: xiin1
Craig, Hardin: See Alterton, Margaret, and Hardin Craig
Craigie, William: 123n15
Creation: xvii, xx, 23, 68, 99, 103, 146n165, 147n173, 159n218, 160n220, 166n243. See also Act(s)
Creator: 32, 104. See also God
Creon: 148n174
Cross, the (constellation): 74, 148n178
Cullen, William: First Lines of the Practice of Physic, 132n57
Cygni (61 Cygni): 86, 155-56n209
Darwin, Charles: 144n160
Davy, John: Memories of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart, 117 n Preface
Dayan, Joan: Fables of Mind, 165n237, 170; use of dashes, 139n122
Declaration of Independence: 120n12, 143n152
Deity, the: 20, 22; finger of, 61. See also God
Democratic Review: 117 n Preface
Democritus: 147n171
De Quincy, Thomas: 137n87
Descartes, Rene: 129n37, 159n220
“Descent into the Maelstrom, A”: 165n238
Dial, The: 135n71
Dickens, Charles (Boz): Watkins Tottle and Other Sketches, Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People, 120n12
Dick, Thomas: The Christian Philosopher, 150n180, 153n198, 154n199, 154n201, 170; Practical Astronomer, 150n180
Difference: 24, 25, 27, 28, 45. See also No-difference; Unity
Diffusion: 23, 24, 25, 29, 31, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 44, 45, 48, 52, 54, 65, 88, 101, 110, 159n220; Self-Diffusion, 105, 167n266. See also Volition/Divine Volition
Disraeli, Isaac: Curiosities of Literature, 120n12, 170
Divine Hand: 61. See also God
“Domain of Arnheim, The”: xiii, xv, 118n7
Draper, John William: 121n13, 122n13
“Dream within a Dream, A”: 166n256
Dupin: 118n9, 137n89, 122n14, 147n71, 159n218. See also “Murders in the Rue Morgue, The”; “Purloined Letter, The”
Duration: 87, 157n214. See also Space
Dyer, Oliver: 162n229. See also Nichol, John Pringle
Edinburgh Review: 144n161, 151n182
“Eleanora”: 119n1l
Electricity: xiii, xiv, xxi, xxii, 27, 28, 53, 62-64, 99-101, 131-32n57, 135n77. See also Heat; Light; Magnetism
Ellison: xiii, xv, 118n7, 118n9. See also “Domain of Arnheim, The”; “Landscape Garden, The”
Emerson, John Milton: review, xxv. See also Walker, I. M.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: 129n44, 135n75, 142nn151-53, 166n256, 170; “The American Scholar,” 161n222; “Blight,” xvi, xvii, xxii, 120n11, 122n14; Nature, 136n77, 144n160, 161n222, “The Poet,” 166n243
Emersonian Oversoul: 166n256. See also Oversoul
Empedocles: 129n39
Encke, Johann Franz: 156n210
Encke's comet (Johann Franz Encke): 97, 165n239. See also “Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall, The”
End: 17, 21, 88, 94, 99, 100, 101
Epicurus: 123n17, 130n49, 147n171
Ether: xviii, xxii, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 132n57 (“aether”), 166n243
“Ettrick shepherd, the”: 10, 121-22n13
Euler, Leonhard: 165n242
Eveleth, George W.: 107, 108, 121-22n13
Evening Mirror: 134n71, 157n213
Evil: 104
Evolution: 144n160, 158n217. See also Reciprocity
“Fall of the House of Usher, The”: 135n77
Fancy/Fancies: 20, 128n35, 77, 90; other references to, 9, 16, 31, 54, 60, 62, 65, 66, 87, 89, 92, 94, 96, 101, 164n232; poetic, 99. See also Imagination
Faraday, Michael: xxin5
Fate, Inexorable: 104
Fatquak: 139n122
“Fifty Suggestions”: 160n222
Finger of God/Deity: 61, 62, 142n151, 142-43n151-53. See also God
Finite, the: 19
Finity: 19, 52. See also Infinity
First Cause: 19, 48, 60, 94, 157n216
Flora: 80. See also Asteroid(s)
“Flying Dutchman”: 147n166. See also “MS. Found in a Bottle”
Forrest, William Mentzel: Biblical Allusions in Poe, 122n13, 170
“Four Beasts in One — The Homocameleopard”: 133n65
Fourier, Francois Marie-Charles: xxvii, 90, 159-60n220
Fourier, Jean Baptiste: 159-60n220
Franklin, Benjamin: xxii
Fraser's Magazine: 141n140
“Furrier”: 159n1 20. See also “Mellonta Tauta” (in Greek)
Future: 35, 61, 72, 100, 136n77, 148n174. See also “Mellonta Tauta” (in Greek)
Galaxy, the: 73, 74, 75, 89, 90, 91, 92, 148-49n178, 150n179, 161n220
Galle, Johann Gottfried: 152n193
Gerson, Jean Charlier: 129n39
God/God's/gods: xiii, xviin3, xx, xxii, 15, 16, 17, 21, 27, 35, 36, 37, 44, 48, 52, 60, 61, 62, 68, 77, 89, 101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 117, 129n41, 129n44, 130n45, 131n54, 135n76, 138n111, 139n118, 142n151, 142-43nn151-53, 143n152, 151n187, 152n191, 157n216, 158n218, 163n230, 166n250, 166n256, 167n259, 167n266. See also Volition
Godey, Louis: ed., Godey's Lady's Book, 119n11, 122n13
Godhead: xviin3, xxin6, 21, 129n41, 142nn151-53, 166n256, 167n259
Godwin, Parke: A Biography of William Cullen Bryant, 117 n Preface, 171
Godwin, William: Mandeville, 117 n Preface
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: 135n71
Graham's: 131n57
“the great Now”: 100
Gruener, Gustav: “Poe's Knowledge of German,” 164n232, 171
Halley, Edmund: 165n242
Halley's comet: 165n239
Happiness: 105
Harrison, James A.: ed., Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vols. 2-16, xxix, xxxiii, 173; vol. 8, 140n133, 151n182, 155n203; vol. 13, 126n20
Harris, Wilson: Palace of the Peacock, xi
Hawking, Stephen: A Brief History of Time, xxin6, 171
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: xxv, 159n220
Heat: 27, 28, 44, 62, 63, 64, 89, 99, 109, 131-32n57, 159n220, 168n5. See also Electricity; Light; Magnetism
Heaven(s): 13, 39, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 90, 91, 92, 98, 149-50n179, 168n5
Hebe: 80. See also Asteroid(s)
Hemera (Day): 151n182. See also Erebus
Henry, Rev. Francis, Eighth Earl of Bridgewater: 140n133. See also Bridgewater Treatises, The
Hermes Trismegistus: 129n39
Herschell (Herschel), Sir John: 93, 94, 95, 135n173, 158n217, 163n230, 163n231; Outlines of Astronomy, 134n65, 149n178; A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, 136n77; “Sound,” in Encyclopedia Metropolitana: Physical Astronomy. Sound. Light., n [[sic]] 134n65; A Treatise on Astronomy, 118n7, 146n165, 150n179, 150n180, 161-62n227, 164n234, 164n235
Herschell (Herschel), Sir William (father of Sir John): 87; discussion of Poe's spelling error, 156-57n213
Heterogeneity: 24, 27, 53, 62, 64, 88, 98, 101
Hieroglyphics: 15, 126n23. See also Champollion, Jean François; Irwin, John T., American Hieroglyphics
Higeia: 152n193. See also Asteroid(s)
“highway of the Constant”: xvi, 15
Him: 22, 61. See also God; Spirit
Himself: individualizations of, 105. See also Being, Divine; God
Hodgens, Richard: 126n23, 134n68, 135n75, 141n137, 141n138, 142n149, 143n155, 144n157, 144n160, 146n163, 148n173, 150n181, 152n193, 161n221, 163n230, 169
Hoffman, Charles F.: 141n135, 152n191
Hog(s): 10, 11, 14; Francis Bacon and, 121-22n13
Hogg, James: 121-22n13
Hog-ites: 11, 12, 121-22n13, 123n15
Holman, Harriet: “Splitting Poe's Epicurian Atoms,” 118n7, 159n220; “Hog, Bacon, Ram,” 121n13, 124n18, 171
Home Journal, The: xxv
Homogeneity: 24. See also Heterogeneity
Hooper, W. (M.D.): 129n40, 170. See also Bielfeld, Baron Jacob Friedrich Hopkins, John H., Jr., review, xxv. See also Literary World
“How to Write a Blackwood Article”: xiv, 124n17, 130n50, 134n71, 152n191
Humboldt, Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von: xi, xii, xiv, xvi, xx, xxiv, xxvii, 8, 93, 117, 118n9, 126n23, 148n178, 149-50n179, 155-56n209, 163n231, 163-64n232, 171; dedication, 3; note to dedication, 117
Hume, Joseph: 125n19
Hurst-Wakeman copy of Eureka: xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv
Huxley, Aldous: Vulgarity in Literature, xix, 171
Idrisi, al: Geographia nubiensis, 119n11
Imagination(s): 11, 15, 21, 32, 36, 70, 82, 103; and fancy, 77, 92, 128n35
Immutability: 51. See also Truth (s)
“Imp of the Perverse, The”: xvii, xviii
Imparticularity: 23, 62, 130n45, 143n153
Infinity: 17,18, 19, 20, 21, 41, 52, 91, 92, 94, 105, 151n185
Injustice: Divine, 104
Instinct: xii, 20, 89, 95, 96, 97, 99. See also Symmetry
Intelligence(s): 9, 77, 101, 104, 105, 106, 154n199, 159n218
Intuition: xiv, 14, 15, 22, 34, 35, 122n13, 122n14, 127n23, 129n44
Iris: 80. See also Asteroid(s)
Irrelation: 39, 42, 51. See also Relation(s)
Irwin, John T.: American Hieroglyphics, 126n23, 171
“Island of the Fay, The”: 167n266
Jackson, Andrew: 117 n Preface
Jefferson, Thomas: xxii, 143n152
Jehovah: 106. See also God
Joy: 105
Juno: 80. See also Asteroid(s)
Jupiter: 58, 70, 80, 82, 83, 110, 112, 113, 142n147, 152n193, 168n9
Kant, Immanuel: 9, 121n12, 122n13, 140n134, 155n204, 160-61n220
Kaufmann, William J., III: Exploration of the Solar System, 145n163, 171
Kepler, Johannes: 15, 16, 79, 80, 98, 109, 111, 126n22, 126-27n23, 128n24, 151n190, 151n191, 153n193, 167n2, 168n8; Harmonice Mundi, 127n24
Ketterer, David: “Protective Irony and ‘The Full Design’ of Eureka,” 118n7, 171
Koenigsburg Observatory: 155n209. See also Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
Kosmos. See Cosmos; Humboldt, Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von.
Krutch, Joseph Wood: Edgar Allan Poe, xxvii, 171
Kuiper, G. P.: “Cosmogony,” 147n173
Lagrange, Comte Joseph Louis: 98, 165n242
“Landscape Garden, The”: 118n7
Laplace, Pierre Simon: xxin6, 15, 36, 56, 107, 109, 126n22, 140-41n135, 141n140, 145n161, 145n163, 146n163, 147n170, 147n172, 159n220, 165n242; Exposition du systeme du monde, 140n134; Mecanique analytique, 140n134; Mecanique celeste, 136n77; Nebular Cosmogony, 54, 62, 66, 69, 70, 140n134, 147n171, 163n230; Nebular Hypothesis, 66, 67, 68, 108, 140n134; Nebular Theory, 60, 62, 65, 67, 163n230
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent: 158n217
Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm: 36; Law of Continuity, 136n77
“Letter to B—”: 167n259
Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph: 152n193
Leverrier's planet (Neptune): 83, 152n193, 154n202
Leviathan (telescope): 157n213. See also Rosse, Lord
Levine, Stuart: Edgar Poe: Seer and Craftsman, 120n11, 131n57, 134n68, 143nn151-53, 171; “Poe and Society,” xxivn8, 171
——, and Susan F. Levine, eds.: “History, Myth, Fable, and Satire: Poe's Use of Jacob Bryant,” 119n1l, 133n65, 171; “ ‘How to’ Satire: Cervantes, Marryat, Poe,” 152n191, 171; The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe/An Annotated Edition, xiv, xviii, xxix, 118n7, 119n1l, 120n12, 129n41, 130n45, 130n50, 133n65, 134n68, 135-36n77, 139n122, 142n149, 147n166, 147n171, 147n173, 151n182, 152n191, 153n194, 155n204, 158n217, 159n220, 161n220, 161n222, 162n227, 165n237, 165n238, 166n243, 173; Thirty Two Stories, xxix, 118n7, 119n1l, 129n41, 130n50, 133n65, 134n68, 136n77, 139n122, 142n149, 147n166, 147n171, 147n173, 151n182, 152n191, 153n194, 155n204, 159n220, 161n220, 161n222, 165n238, 166n243, 173
Life: 106; Life-Everlasting 5; 117 n Preface
“Ligeia”: 129n41
Light: 28, 38, 41, 44, 62, 63, 64, 68, 69, 76, 77, 86, 87, 91, 99, 124n17, 131-32n57, 137n83, 137n84, 143n152, 143n155, 145n163, 150n179, 150n181, 153n194, 156n209, 156n210, 156n213. See also Electricity; Heat; Magnetism
“Literary Life of Thingum Bob, The”: 139n122, 142n149
“Literati, The”: 150n180, reference to series on Richard Locke, 157n213
Logic: 12, 13, 14, 29, 50, 102, 121n13, 124n18. See also Mill, John Stuart
“Loss of Breath”: 117 n Preface
Lovett, Richard: Electrical Philosopher, 131-32n57
Lucretius: De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe), 123-24n17, 130n49, 130n50
Mabbott, Thomas Ollive (TOM): xxix, xxxi, 121n12, 123n15, 123n16, 123n17, 125n18, 126n20, 126n23, 128n27, 128n29, 129n39, 129n40, 133n62, 134n71, 135n75, 136n77, 141n140, 143n155, 144n157, 148n174, 148n178, 153n193, 157n213, 161n227, 166n250
——, ed.: Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, xxix; vol. 1, Complete Poems, 128n29, 140n133, 143n156, 147n173, 172; vol. 2, Tales and Sketches, 1831-42, 119n1l, 120n11, 123nl7, 128n27, 129n41, 130n50, 135n71, 135n77, 138n89, 147n166, 147n171, 152,n191, 161n223, 163n230, 165n238, 167n266, 172-73; vol. 3, Tales and Sketches, 1843-49, 107, 108, 118n7, 119n1l, 120n12, 122n14, 127n24, 128n25, 130n45, 134n68, 139n122, 142n149, 147n173, 151n182, 155n204, 158n217, 159n220, 161n220, 161n222, 165n237, 166n243, 167n2, 168n5, 172-73
Maddison, Carol Hopkins: “Poe's Eureka,” xxiii, xxiv, 148n178, 149n179, 164n232, 172
Mädler, Johann Heinrich von: 90, 91, 92, 93, 93; Poe's note, 94, 99, 160n220, 161n221, 161n222, 163n231
Magnetism: xxiii, 27, 28, 36, 62, 99, 131-32n57, 135n77. See also Electricity; Heat; Light
“majestic highway of the Consistent”: xvi, 15
Many: 23, 68, 95. See also One
Mare Tenebrarum: 9, 119n1l, 133n65
“Marginalia”: 119n1l, 125n19, 134n71, 136n77, 139n114, 139n122, 140n133, 145n162, 157n216, 158n217, 158-59n218, 160n220
Mars: 59, 80, 83, 142n147, 152n193
Maskelyne, Nevil: 30, 67; Poe's note, 132n62, 146n163
Mason, Edward S.: “Fourier and Fourierism,” 160n220, 172
Material, the (as opposed to the spiritual): 28, 54, 77, 104. See also Body; Soul
Matter: xii, xiii, xiv, xviin3, xx, xxi, xxi-ii, xxxiii, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 49, 51, 52, 54, 55, 63, 65, 82, 93, 95, 96, 98, 99, 101, 102, 104, 129n44, 130n45, 131n54, 132n58, 136n77, 137n87, 138n1l1, 140n134, 142nn151-52, 147n170, 148n174, 148n175, 149n178, 151n182, 155n202, 166n243
Maxwell, James Clerk: xxin5
“Mellonta Tauta” (in Greek): xiv, 72, 148n174
Melville, Herman: language in Moby-Dick, xxvi; later work, including Billy Budd, xix; Moby-Dick and Pierre, xi, xii; reception of Moby-Dick, xxiv-xxv; reference to Moby-Dick, 139n118; syntax in early work, xviii; Typee and Omoo, 144n157
Melville islands: 64; Melville Island, 144n157
“Memories of a Destiny”: 103-5
Mercury: 59, 63, 65, 70, 80, 83, 110, 111, 113-14, 115, 142n147, 144n160, 152n193, 153n193, 168n6
“Mesmeric Revelation”: 130n45
“Metzengerstein”: 133n65
Mihalas, Dimitri, and James Binney: Galactic Astronomy, 150n179, 172
Milky Way: 73, 74, 87, 92, 94, 137n87, 148n178, 149n179, 150n179, 160n220
Miller: 12, 124-25n18. See also Mill, John Stuart
Miller, Joe: Joe Miller's Jest Book, 125n18, 125n19. See also Mill, John Stuart
Mill, James: 125n18; Human Mind, 154n198
Mill, John Stuart: A System of Logic, 12, 13, 14, 121n13, 123-24n17, 124-25n18, 125n19, 140n133, 172
Milton, John: “Comus,” quoted, 123n16; Paradise Lost, 154n202, 172
Mind: xii, 18, 19, 28, 30, 32, 36, 44, 50, 82, 84, 87, 102, 106, 117 n Preface, 155n203
Mitchell, John: xxin6
Modernization: xxiv
Monos: xiii, xiv. See also “The Colloquy of Monos and Una”
Montaigne, Michel de: Essays, 120n12, 129n39, 172
“MS. Found in a Bottle”: 147n166, 165n238
“Muddler”: See Mädler, Johann Heinrich von; “Mellonta Tauta” (in Greek)
Multiplicity: 24, 26, 35, 53, 129n44, 131n52. See also Relation (s); Unity
“Murders in the Rue Morgue, The”: 40, 122n14, 137-38n89, 147n171, 153n194, 163n230
“Mystery of Marie Roget, The”: xix, 138n89, 160n220
“Mystification”: xviii
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The: xix, xixn4, 165n238
Nature: 41,49, 60, 62, 132n57, 143n152, 166n243
Neal, John: 134n71
Nebular Cosmogony/Hypothesis/Theory: See Laplace, Pierre Simon
Nelson-Mabbott copy of Eureka: xxxii, xxxiv
Nelson, Roland: “Apparatus for a Definitive Edition,” xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, 172
Neptune: 55, 56, 57, 63, 70, 80, 81, 83, 84, 109, 114, 115, 141n140, 142n147, 152n193, 154n202
Nereid (moon of Neptune): 141n140
“Neuclid”: See Euclid; “Mellonta Tauta” (in Greek)
Newton, Sir Isaac/Newtonian Gravity: xx, xxiii, xxiv, 15, 27, 29, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 49, 51, 52, 54, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 67, 68, 71, 79, 80, 90, 91, 95, 96, 109, 111, 125n19, 126n23, 127n23, 132n57, 133n62, 136n77, 137n78, 137n84, 140n134, 140-41n135, 143n152, 151n182, 151n191, 153n193, 155n202, 159-60n220, 165n236, 165-66n242, 168n8, 168n12
Nichol, John Pringle: xii, xx, xxv, 35, 36, 67, 93, 126-27n23, 135n75, 135n76, 141n137, 141n138, 141n140, 142n149, 143n155, 144n157, 144n160, 146n163, 162n229, 162-63n230, 172; “Architecture of the Heavens,” 35; Poe's note to, 126n23, 135n76, 141n137, 141n138, 146n163; Views of the Architecture of the Heavens, 67; Views of Astronomy: Seven Lectures, 127n23, 135n75, 141n137, 141n138, 142n149, 143n155, 144n160, 146n163, 162n229
Nihility: 22, 103, 129n44, 132n58
Nine Great Powers: 115. See also Asteroid(s)
No-difference: 27, 131n56. See also Difference; Unity
Nothing: 22
Noumena: 10
Nubian Geographer: 9, 119n11. See also Idrisi, al
Nux (night): 151n182. See also Erebus
Olbers, Heinrich: 150n181
Omans, Glen A.: “Intellect, Taste and. the Moral Sense: Poe's Debt to Immanuel Kant,” 121n12, 128n35, 172
Omniscience: 47
One: xviin3, xxiii, 9, 23, 24, 25, 26, 33, 35, 51, 68, 72, 87, 95, 96, 97, 102, 106, 131n52, 134-35n71, 138n111, 166n243. See also Many; Matter; Poetry; Spirit; Truth(s)
Oneness: xv, xvii, xx, 7, 23, 26, 29, 100, 102, 129 41, 130n50, 134-35n71
Oriental, tribal, and mystical religions: 142nn151-53; mystical, Oriental and/or occult beliefs, 166n256
Osborne copy of Eureka: xxxii, xxxiv
Ostrom, John Ward, ed.: Letters of Edgar Allan Poe, xxvi, 108, 134n71, 141n135, 173
Oversoul: 136n77, 166n256. See also Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Pagan fables: 31
Pallas: 80. See also Asteroid(s)
Pannekoek, Antonie: A History of Astronomy, 156n213, 166n242, 172
Parallax: 85, 155n209, 156n210
Parmenides of Elea: xii, xiii, 124n17
Parsons, William, third earl of Rosse: 157n213. See also Rosse, Lord
Particle(s): xxi, xxii; absolute particle, 42, 44, 48; light, 38, 137n84; Particle Proper, 25, 51-53; primordial Particle, 23-24, 129n44, 142nn151-53
Pascal, Blaise: Pensées, 21, 129n39, 172
Past: 61, 69, 136n77, 146n165, 147n166
Peculiarity: 40
Periodicity, law of: 103
Phenomena: 10
“Pinakidia”: 119n11, 132n58, 133n65, 145n162
Plato: xiii, xiv, 79, 152n191, 166n256
Plot (of God): xviin3, 89, 99, 139n114, 158-59n218
Poem: Eureka as, xii-xvi, xix, xxv, xxvi, 5
Poetry: xiv, 96. See also Beauty; Fancy; Instinct; Symmetry; Truth(s)
Pollin, Burton R. (BRP): xvn2, xviin3, xixn4, xxin5, xxin6, xxix, xxxi, 107, 117 n Preface, 117n7, 120n12, 122n13, 126n20, 128n31, 128n35, 130n50, 132n58, 132n62, 133n65, 134n65, 134n67, 134n71, 136n77, 137 m85 [[n85]], 138n90, 138n111, 138n114, 139n118, 139n122, 140n133, 142n149, 143n156, 144n159, 144n160, 145n162, 146n165, 147n169, 147n173, 149n178, 150n179, 150n180, 154n198, 155n203, 157n213, 157n214, 157n216, 158n217, 159n218, 161n220, 163n231, 164n232, 164n234, 167n266, 167n2
——, ed.: Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, xxix, 173; vol. 1, The Imaginary Voyages: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym/The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall/The Journal of Julius Rodman, 118n7, 142n149, 145n163, 150n179, 154n201, 156n213, 157n213, 161n223, 162n227, 165n238, 165n239; vol 2, The Brevities: Pinakidia/Marginalia/ Fifty Suggestions, 119n11, 120n11, 123n15, 124n18, 125n18, 125n19, 128n33, 129n40, 130n50, 132n58, 133n65, 134n71, 136n77, 139n114, 139n122, 145n162, 148n174, 157n216, 158n217, 160n220, 162n227; vol. 3, Writings in the Broadway Journal: Nonfictional Prose (text), 118 119, 128n35, 155n203, 163n230, 164n232; vol. 4, Writings in the Broadway Journal (annotations), 118n9, 128n35, 163n230, 164n232
——, on Poe: “Contemporary Reviews of Eureka: A Checklist,” xv, xxv, xxvi, 126-27n23, 135n75, 174; Dictionary of Names and Titles in Poe's Collected Works, xxiv, 120n11, 130n49, 132n58, 174; Discoveries in Poe, 117 n Preface, 121-22n13, 158n217, 174; “Empedocles in Poe: A Contribution of Bielfeld,” xxvi, 174; “ ‘MS. Found in a Bottle’ and Sir David Brewster's Letters: A Source,” 161n222, 174; Poe Creator of Words, xxxiii, 107, 118n9, 121n12, 122n13, 123n15, 123 m6, 126n20, 126n23, 128n26, 128n29, 128n37, 129n37, 130n45, 130n50, 131n53, 131n56, 133n65, 134n69, 135n73, 135n77, 136n77, 137n83, 137n87, 138n91, 139n118, 141n138, 141n140, 143n155, 144n157, 144n160, 146n163, 147n167, 147n171, 148n174, 149n178, 150n180, 151n191, 154n198, 159n219, 161n223, 64n232, 165n238, 167n259, 167n262, 167n263, 167n266, 174; “Poe's Use of Material from Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Etudes, “119n11, 174; “Politics and History in Poe's ‘Mellonta Tauta’: Two Allusions Explained,” 158n218, 174; Word Index to Poe's Fiction, xxxiii, 123n17, 134n67, 149n178, 166n245, 166n246, 166n247, 174
Pope, Alexander: “Epitaphs Intended for Sir Isaac Newton,” 143n152
Posey, Meredith Neill: “Notes on Poe's ‘Hans Pfaall,’ ” 118n7, 174
“Power of Words, The”: 131n57, 134n68, 147n173, 151n182, 166n243
“Prediction, A”: 108
“Premature Burial, The”: 165n237
Pritchard, Augustin (translator of Humboldt's Kosmos): 164n232
Psyche Zenobia: 134-35n71, 152n191. See also “How to Write a Blackwood Article”
Ptolemaeus, Claudius: 120n11
Ptolemy Chennos: 120n1l
Ptolemy Hephestion: 9, 119-20n11. See also Ptolemy Chennos
Pulkovo Observatory: 156n210. See also Struve, Otto
Pundit: 12, 124n18, 155n204. See also “Mellonta Tauta” (in Greek); Pundita
Pundita: 119n11, 121n12, 121n13, 122n14, 123n17, 126n22, 144n160, 155n204, 160n220. See also “Mellonta Tauta” (in Greek); Pundit
“Purloined Letter, The”: xv, 122n14, 133n65, 159n218
Putnam copy of Eureka: xxvi, xxxi, xxxii
Pythagoras: 152n191
Pythagoreans: 152n191
Quarterly Review: “The Universe and Its Author,” 140n133. See also St. Armaud, Barton Levi
Quinn, Arthur Hobson: Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography, 129n44, 174
Quinn, Patrick: ed., Edgar Allan Poe/ Poetry and Tales, 127n24, 157n213, 174
Rabelais, François: 129n39
Radiation: 34, 37-52, 71, 80, 89, 95, 100, 103, 137n87, 152n193, 155n202, irradiation 135n73
Ram(s): 11, 12, 14, 16, 127n23, 122n14
“Rationale of Verse, The”: xxvi, 145n162
Ravetz, Jerome R., and I. Grattan-Guiness: “Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourrier,” 159n220, 174
“Rëaction”: 25, 41, 43, 45, 48, 52, 62, 68, 95, 99, 103, 130n50
Reason: 18, 23, 33, 40, 51, 68, 90, 137n89
Reciprocity: xxi, 88, 89, 101, 157n216, 158n217, 159n218. See also Adaptation, Divine
Rees, Abraham: Cyclopaedia: or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literatures, 149n178, 167n2; Ree's Manufacturing Industry, 149n178
Relation(s): 8, 9, 24, 25, 32, 33, 35, 37, 39, 44, 45, 50, 51, 53, 56, 71, 92, 130-31n52. See also Multiplicity
“Remarkable letter”: 9-16, 119n11
Repulsion (repulsive force, influence, power, spirit): xxiii, xxiv, xxv, xxxiii, 26-29, 48, 53, 54, 62, 63, 64, 80, 101, 102, 131n54, 132n58. See also Attraction; Electricity
Robertson, John Parish: Solomon Seesaw, 128n27
Roget, Peter Mark: Animal and Vegetable Psychology, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, 140n133
Romantic movement: xxii
Romantics (authors of the Romantic movement): 161n222, 166n256, 167n259
Ronan, Colin A.: Astronomers Royal, 156n213,174
Rosetta Stone: 126n23
Rosse, Lord (William Parsons, Third Earl of Rosse): 67, 87, 93, 118n7, 145-46n163, 157n213. See also Parsons, William
Rossi Mountains: 118n7
Ross, Sir James Clark: 151n182. See also Erebus
Roughgarden, Jonathan: Theory of Population Genetics and Evolutionary Ecology: An Introduction, 158n217, 174
Satire (in Eureka): xvii, xviii, xix-xx, 118n9; attitudes toward Transcendentalism, 134-35n71, 143nn151-53; relation to “Bon-Bon,” 120n12; relation to “Mellonta Tauta,” 155n204, 161n222; relation to “Thingum Bob,” 139n122
Saturday Museum: 128n31
Saturn: 57, 58, 70, 73, 80, 83, 110, 114, 115, 142n147, 148-49n178, 152n193
Schemske, Douglas W.: “Limits to Specialization and Coevolution in Plant-Animal Mutualisms,” 158n217, 174
Schofield, Robert E.: Mechanism and Materialism: British Natural Philosophy in an Age of Reason, 132n57, 174
“Secondary Cause”: 7, 60, 163n230. See also “First Cause”; “First Thing”
Secret, the: 16, 40, 41, 43, 138n97
“Shadow”: 133n65
Shakespeare: 117 n Preface; quotation from Hamlet, 155n203
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: “A Defense of Poetry,” xxii, 122n14
Shew, Marie Louise: 128n29
Simms, William Gilmore: The Partisan, 115n203
Simplicity: 7, 22, 23, 24, 29, 34, 35, 36, 37, 50
Simplicius: xiii. See also Anaximander
Skylark: 119n11. See also “Mellonta Tauta” (in Greek)
Slough (telescope): 156n213
Sneezing: 120n12
Solomon Seadrift: 128n27. See also Folio Club
Solomon Seesaw: 16, 128n27. See also Robertson, John Parish
“Sonnet — to Science”: xvi, 118n9, 122n14
Sophocles: Antigone: Poe's quotation from, 148n174. See also “Mellonta Tauta” (in Greek)
Sorrow: 104. See also Injustice, Divine; Joy
Soul: xvi, xviin3, xxiii, xxiv, 10, 14, 15, 22, 28, 35, 54, 63, 77, 87, 89, 103, 104, 126n21, 128n29, 140n133, 166n243, 166n256, 167n259. See also Body
Southern Literary Messenger: 128n31, 140n133, 155n203
Space and Duration (space/time): 87, 157n214. See also One Specialization, xxii, xxiv
“Spectacles, The”: 151n182
Spirit: xii, xiii, xiv, xvii, xvii 113, xxiii, xxiv, 17, 22, 27, 77, 101, 104, 129n44, 130n45, 131n57, 138n111, 142n151-53, 166n243; Spirit Divine, 106, 167n266. See also Matter
Spirituality: xxiii, 99, 131n57, 142nn151-53, 166n243
St. Armand, Barton Levi: “ ‘Seemingly Intuitive Leaps’: Belief and Unbelief in Eureka,” 140n133, 154n194, 174
St. Augustine: Civitas Dei, on Anaximander, xiii
St. Bonaventure: 129n39
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, and George Woodberry: eds., The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, xxiii, xxiiin7, xxiv, xxvi, 107, 108, 132n58, 168n9, 168n12,173-74
Sticker, Bernhard: “Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander,” 163n231, 175
St. John, Henry, Viscount of Bolingbroke: 143n152. See also Nature
Stringham, Irving: 107-8, 132n58, 168n8, 168n9. See also Woodberry, George
Struve, Otto: 86, 156n210, 160n220
The Stylus [[Stylus, the]]: 135n75
Sun(s): 16, 32, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 63, 65, 70, 71, 73, 74, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 90, 92, 97, 98, 100, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 127n23, 138n90, 141n135, 141n140, 143n155, 146n163, 150n179, 151n190, 152n193, 154n201, 155n204, 156n210, 160n220, 161n221, 161n222, 163n231, 165n242, 167n2; non-luminous, 64, 91
Superstring theory: xxi
Swan, the (constellation): 86
Swedenborg, Emanuel: xxv, 135n77, 140n134
System-atoms: 72, 100, 166n246
Tales by Edgar A. Poe: 137n89, 173
Thingum Bob: 139n122, 142n149. See also “The Literary Life of Thingum Bob”
Thoreau, Henry David, Walden: xi, 125n19, 138n90, 138n97
Thought(s): xiii, 12, 18, 20, 28, 33, 35, 48, 101, 128n29, 131n57, 134n69, 151n185. See also Electricity; Infinity Titanic atoms, 72, 100, 148n174
Titans: 148n174
Titius, Johann Daniel: 153n193. See also Bode, Johann Elert; Bode, Law of
Transcendence: 166n256
Transcendentalism: xvi, xvii, xxiv, 36, 120n11, 135n77, 143nn151-53
Transcendentalist(s): 9, 14, 120n11, 134-35n71, 142nn151-53
Tribune (New York): 135n75, 135n76, 162n229
Triton: as Greek sea deity, 123n15; as satellite of Neptune, 141n140, 152n193
Trotter, W. F.: 129n39, 172. See also Pascal, Blaise, Pensées
Truth(s): xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, 5, 9, 10 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 30, 31, 35, 40, 45, 50, 51, 60, 65, 70, 93, 96, 103, 104, 117 n Preface, 120n11, 120n12, 122n14, 124n17, 127n23, 135n71, 137n89, 138n97, 141n135, 162n230. See also Poetry; Unity
“Tuclid”: 9, 120-21n12. See Euclid
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 140n133. See also Bridgewater Treatises, The
Twarog, Barbara: 152n193
Twarog, Bruce (Twarog): xxi, xxix, 107, 131-32n57, 133n62, 137n87, 145n163, 147n170, 147n172, 150n181, 151n182, 151n190, 151n191, 152n193, 153n193, 155n202, 155n205, 155n209, 156n209, 156n210, 157n214, 160n220, 165n236, 167n2
“Ulalume”: 140n133, 143n156, 147n173, 151n182
Unity: xiii, xiv, xvii 113, xx, xxi, xxii, 7, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31, 34, 35, 37, 40, 44, 45, 46, 48, 52, 53, 60, 70, 72, 77, 88, 93, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 129n44, 131n57, 135n71, 163n230, 164n232, 166n256. See also Atom(s); Multiplicity; Truth (s)
Universal Sphere: 53, 54, 71, 74, 100
Universe (s): xii, xiii, xiv, xvii, xix, xx, xxii, xxiii, xxv, xxvi, 7, 15, 16, 17, 21, 23, 25, 30, 32, 37, 41, 45, 53, 54, 71, 72, 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 83, 86, 87, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 124n17, 126n23, 131n57, 132n57, 134n68, 135n77, 137n87, 139n118, 140n134, 142n151, 142nn151-53, 146n165, 148n177, 150n181, 156n210, 156n213, 160n220, 163n230, 164n232, 164n234, 165n236, 166n243, 166n256, 167n266; material and spiritual principles of, 28; Poe's explanation of usage, 8; Poe's lecture on, 144n159; as plot of God, 89, 139n114; of Vacancy, 76
Universe of Stars: 8, 21, 37, 41, 54, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 79, 87, 105, 163n230. See also Universe(s)
“Universe, The” (lecture): 144n159
“Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall, The”: 118 117, 142n149, 150n179, 157n213, 158n217, 162n227, 165n238, 165n239
Uranus: 57, 60, 70, 80, 83, 110, 114, 115, 135n76, 141n140, 142n147, 142n149, 152n193
Utilitarianism: 138n111
Vacancy: 76, 155n202. See also Universe (s)
Valéry, Paul: “Au sujet d’Eureka” (quotation from Cowley translation), xi-xii, xx
Van Buren, Martin: 117 n Preface
Vankirk (character): 130n45. See also “Mesmeric Revelation”
Venus: 59, 63, 64, 80, 83, 110, 111, 114, 142n147, 143n156, 144n160, 152n193, 153n193, 168n6
Vesta: 80. See also Asteroid (s)
Vitalism, School of: 144n1.60, 157n214
Void(s): 23, 75, 76, 87, 150n181, 152n182
Volition/Divine Volition: 22, 26, 35, 42, 44, 48, 52, 53, 62, 68, 71, 103, 139n118, 142nn151-53, 135n76. See also God
“Von Kempelen and His Discovery”: 158n217
Walden: 138n90, 138n97. See also Thoreau, Henry David
Walker, I. M.: ed., Edgar Allan Poe: The Critical Heritage, xxv, 175
Weir, John A.: 158n217
Wheelwright, Philip: ed., The Presocratics, xiii, 124n17, 175
Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass, xi, xii
Will/Divine Will: 23, 25, 47, 103, 129n41, 131n52, 138n111. See also God
Williams, Henry Smith: The Great Astronomers, 156n213, 175
Willis, Nathaniel P.: 128n35
Wines, Enoch Cobb: xxv
Woodberry, George: See Stedman, Edmund Clarence, and George Woodberry, eds., The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Wordsworth, William: “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood,” 167n259
World-Reason: 104
World-spirit: 131n54, 136n77, 166n256. See also Oversoul; Transcendentalism
Y: 73, 74, 148-49n178. See also Galaxy
“Yaanek”: 151n182. See also Erebus
Youth: 103-5
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