Willard Gibbs

Trespass and presumption

Susan Howe and Muriel Rukeyser

Sarah Dowling and Stefania Heim at Kelly Writers House, April 2013.
Sarah Dowling and Stefania Heim at Kelly Writers House, April 2013.

Muriel Rukeyser and Susan Howe tell the same anecdote about nineteenth-century mathematician, philosopher, and American Pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce. In it, Peirce has been tasked with defining — among many specialized terms of logic, philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy — the word “university” for the Century Dictionary.

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