Falling Upwards by Richard Holmes
Author:Richard Holmes [Richard Holmes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2013-03-10T16:00:00+00:00
The picture seems to carry an allegorical message, skilfully developed from that of the Times editorial: the Scientist presses the extreme limits of Nature at his peril. The well-ordered world of the Victorian scientific laboratory is transported into the hostile chaos of the upper atmosphere. Order and purpose become disorder and terror. The message may even have owed something to Charles Darwin’s new vision of Nature. But what is most fearful about this picture is the sense that death will come not by falling downwards, towards the familiar clouds and the earth seven miles beneath, but by falling upwards into the endless, empty, unknown blackness of space above.fn30
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