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Daydreams of science: the benzene Ouroboros and the Clapham omnibus
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Robert Moss
One of the most famous, and most controversial, dreams in the history of science is the vision of Ouroboros – the snake consuming its own tail – that revealed the shape of the benzene ring to German chemist Friedrich August Kekulé (1829-1896). Was it a sleep dream, a daydream or something else? I went back…
In the secret laboratory of dreams
By
Robert Moss
Quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli declared that dreams were his “secret library”. He recorded dreams and shared detailed reports with Jung over the quarter century before his premature death. Einstein, Niels Bohr, Kekule – and Newton in his own day, and Hypatia in hers – were all dreamers. They drew inspiration from sleep dreams and developed…
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