{"id":3166,"date":"2009-09-25T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T20:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2009-09-25T16:21:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T20:21:39","slug":"frye-the-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/09\/25\/frye-the-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye the Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3168\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/pluto.jpg\" alt=\"pluto\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/pluto.jpg 350w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/pluto-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/pluto-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><em>This might be of particular interest to Clayton Chrusch, Adam Bradley, and Trevor Losh-Johnson, among others.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frye on Form and Volume<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At school I was taught that substances keeping form &amp; volume were solids, those keeping volume but not form liquids, &amp; those keeping neither gas.\u00a0 Even then I could see that there ought to be a fourth class keeping form but not volume.\u00a0 And there is a tradition, though admittedly a very speculative one, which says that there is a fourth class of this kind, &amp; the one that includes all organisms or living beings.\u00a0 Also, that just as solids, liquids &amp; gases have a symbolic connexion with, respectively, earth, water &amp; air, so organisms, especially warm-blooded animals, are units of imprisoned fire. (<em>Northrop Frye\u2019s Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts<\/em>, CW 13, 208)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Frye on Geometry and Beauty<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I entered University in the old Pass Course I was neither wise nor experienced, being seventeen; but my cultural tastes were formed.\u00a0 I had always done well in English, liked history and languages, thought I could do philosophy, hated science, and loathed mathematics with an adolescent\u2019s fanaticism.\u00a0 However, I had to take math, so I sulkily bought a formidable treatise on \u201cAnalytic Geometry,\u201d by someone named De Lury, whom I had never heard of nor wanted to hear of, and proceeded to read the only part of it which it was possible to read, the Preface.\u00a0 At the end of the Preface I came across some such remark as this: \u201cThe student should get a sharp pencil &amp; a decent set of instruments, because without clear and accurate diagrams a great deal of the beauty of the subject will be lost.\u201d\u00a0 I stared at that sentence for a long time, and then thought, \u201cBy golly, that could be true.\u201d\u00a0 I never got further with mathematics, and never got the point of the subject, but from that day I have never doubted that there was a point to get, and that for those who know it mathematics is one of the major disciplines of beauty. (<em>Northrop Frye\u2019s Fiction and Miscellaneous Writings<\/em>, CW 25, 14)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Daniel Bertrand De Lury, a special lecturer in mathematics at the University of Toronto.\u00a0 <em>Analytic Geometry<\/em> seems not to be in the data base of any Canadian or U.S. library, although De Lury published several volumes on mathematics through the University of Toronto Press for the Ontario Research Foundation.]\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prophetic Genius: Frye the Astronomer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In one of his notebooks he records this fantasy: \u201cIn my childhood I dreamed of becoming a great astronomer &amp; discovering a new planet beyond Neptune that I was going to call Pluto.\u201d\u00a0 [<em>Pictured above<\/em>] \u00a0Frye calls this a \u201ccurious form of e.s.p. that he possesses,\u201d and with good reason, as Pluto wasn\u2019t actually discovered and so named until a decade later.\u00a0 (<em>Northrop Frye\u2019s Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts<\/em>, CW 13, 68)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 This might be of particular interest to Clayton Chrusch, Adam Bradley, and Trevor Losh-Johnson, among others. 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