Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Byron , Baron George Gordon Byron (1807), The poetical works of Lord Byron, Retrieved on 2012-01-28Source Material [books.google.com]
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28 JAN 2012
The Age of New Inventions
This is the patent-age of new inventions
For killing bodies, and for saving souls,
All propagated with the best intentions;
Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals
Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions,
Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles,
Are ways to benefit mankind, as true,
Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.
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Lord Byron marvels at the scientific wonders of his age.
28 JAN 2012
What opposite discoveries we have seen!
What opposite discoveries we have seen!
(Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.)
One makes new noses, one a guillotine,
One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets;
But vaccination certainly has been
A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets, ... Folksonomies: poetry
Folksonomies: poetry
From science, bombs and immunizations, guillotines and life-saving surgery. A poem by Lord Byron.
28 JAN 2012
Newton, Adam, and the Apple
When Newton saw an apple fall, he found
In that slight startle from his contemplation—
'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground
For any sage's creed or calculation)—
A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round
In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation';
And this is the sole mortal who could grapple,
Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple. A poem by Lord Byron.
