{"id":4026,"date":"2014-04-09T09:11:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T13:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2014-04-09T09:11:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T13:11:19","slug":"when-humanities-and-natural-sciences-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2014\/04\/09\/when-humanities-and-natural-sciences-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"When Humanities and Natural Sciences Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.3villagecsd.k12.ny.us\/wmhs\/Departments\/Math\/OBrien\/euclid.gif\" width=\"290\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It can be strange to think sometimes of the humanities and sciences meeting. A poetic stanza has very little to do with a mathematical equation one would think; not Edna St. Vincent Millay. In this poem, &#8220;Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare&#8221;, the Father of Geometry can see what poets, those so attuned to pointing out the beauty of the world, cannot. Here is the text:<\/p>\n<p>Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.<br \/>\nLet all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,<br \/>\nAnd lay them prone upon the earth and cease<br \/>\nTo ponder on themselves, the while they stare<br \/>\nAt nothing, intricately drawn nowhere<br \/>\nIn shapes of shifting lineage; let geese<br \/>\nGabble and hiss, but heroes seek release<br \/>\nFrom dusty bondage into luminous air.<\/p>\n<p>O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day,<br \/>\nWhen first the shaft into his vision shone<br \/>\nOf light anatomized! Euclid alone<br \/>\nHas looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they<br \/>\nWho, though once only and then but far away,<br \/>\nHave heard her massive sandal set on stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be strange to think sometimes of the humanities and sciences meeting. A poetic stanza has very little to do with a mathematical equation one would think; not Edna St. Vincent Millay. In this poem, &#8220;Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare&#8221;, the Father of Geometry can see what poets, those so attuned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[244,3715],"tags":[48612,48611,3832,48558,3830,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4027,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions\/4027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}