(Chapter 7 - miniature - II)
I shall first take a fragment from Cyrano de Bergerac, which is quoted in a very fine article by Pierre-Maxime Schuhl; entitled Le thème de Gulliver et le postulat de Laplace. Here the author is led to accentuate the intellectualist nature of Cyrano de Bergerac's amused images in order to compare them with this astronomer-mathematician's ideas.
The Cyrano text is the following: "This apple is a little universe in itself, the seed of which, being hotter than the other parts, gives out the conserving heat of its globe; and this germ, in my opinion, is the little sun of this little world, that warms and ffed the vegetative salt of this little mass."
The Poetics of Space, The Classic Look at How We Experience Intimate Places, Gaston Bachelard
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