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Glossário Poético da Cosmologia

entries made of a definition, a poem and a scientific gloss · in progress

Provisional cover of the Glossário Poético da Cosmologia: the title in spaced capitals and the author’s name at the upper right, on a cream ground, and a large black arc, open at the top, around an orange dot.
Provisional cover.

Each entry of the glossary gathers, around a term of cosmology, a definition, in the manner of dictionaries, a poem that vouches for it, as a quotation vouches for the usage of a word, and a scientific gloss, which a physicist writes and signs in response to the poem. In progress since 2026, the project sets the poem and physics to work on the same entry and keeps the conversation between the two forms of knowledge without dissolving one into the other.

Anatomy of an entry

Term
a term of cosmology, n.
Definition
One line, in the manner of dictionaries.
Poem
The poem that vouches for the term
Gloss
The scientific gloss, written and signed by a physicist in response to the poem.

Threads allegorical scarcity · machine of the world