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Chapter: The Mystery of the Missing Bang
Eureka is a 40,000-word prose poem written by American author, critic, essayist and poet Edgar Allan Poe in 1848, a year before he died. It describes in florid language a discovery that he considered to be profoundly important – how the universe began.