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1. A N Whitehead addresses the British Association in 1916 - MacTutor…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/BA_1916_1/

   7 Mar 2023: An epic poem is a triumph of organisation, that is to say, it is a triumph in the unlikely event of it being a good epic poem. ... Science is the organisation of thought. But the example of the epic poem warns us that science is not any organisation of

2. Michael Scot (1175 - 1235) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Scot/

   20 Aug 2023: inferno in Dante Alighieri's epic poem, The Divine Comedy only to be "rescued" much later on in Sir Walter Scott's poem Lay of the Last Minstrel.

3. William Whewell (1794 - 1866) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Whewell/

   25 Sep 2023: poetic gifts since, in 1814, he won the Chancellor's prize for an epic poem he wrote entitled Boadicea.

4. On the origin of the Fibonacci Sequence T.C. Scotta, ... PDF (2194k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Publications/fibonacci.pdf

   4 Nov 2017: Although well viewed by the papal author-ities around 1227, he would acquire the sinister reputation of a wizard andwould be condemned in the inferno in Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, ... The Di-vine Comedy (albeit “rescued” much later on in Sir

5. Science at St Andrews - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Turnbull_science/

   7 Mar 2023: survives. William Wilkie, who succeeded Young, is one of the picturesque figures of his century: he is better known for his epic poem, the Epigoniad, than for his natural philosophy, but,