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to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus

a combine harvester

In this brilliant new collection of poems

Physics John Gierach spindly figures gather outside aWritten in the fourth century BCE by Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, Physics set out to define the principles and causes of change, movement, and motion. For 2,000 years until discoveries by Galileo, Newton, and other scientists this treatise was the primary source for explanations of falling rocks, rising flames, the circulation of air, and other physical phenomena. Modern readers are required to bring a keen sense of criticism to these