Robert Burns Woodward's publications exhibit a beauty and majesty infrequently seen in the scientific literature. Excerpts from Woodward's publications are presented along with a discussion of his literary personality and the effect of his writings on his contemporaries and on the style of the chemical literature that followed.

Sherrington's image of the mind-brain as an 'enchanted loom' has intrigued scientists for decades. Its origin, however, has been unclear. Here, we make a new suggestion as to where it may have come from. The article sheds light on the connections between literary and scientific similes and metaphors.

In this article, we describe some features of a rediscovered medical text written in old Persian (Farsi Dari) over one thousand years ago and discuss some of its significant attributes in relation to the historical background of the Iranian scientific and literary renaissance of that era.

in the books written on rhetorics, figures of speech, and literary terms one may find different non-systematic classifications of puns. some of these methods have been translated from the arabic literary texts. some other classifications are based on phonetics and phonology. in this research after surveying the common methods of classification, it has been tried to put forward certain new scien...

Evolutionary psychology has penetrated many disciplines, and space limitations unfortunately precluded inclusion of all of them. Asthese words are written , there are rapidly emerging new hybrid disciplines, such as evolutionary In the final analysis, all human behavior-including economic behavior, legal behavior, artistic behavior , and organizational behavior-is a product of evolved psycholog...

sociology of literature, on the one hand, is related to sociology and ,on the other hand, to literature.this approach mainly focuses on the structure and the content of the literary work and its relation to the society. it also scrutinizes the interaction between literature and the society as well as how the writer reflects social issues from intellectual, religious and social perspectives inth...

not all values of literary texts should be sought for in their artistic aspects . there have been many lower-ranked literary texts that have shed light on numerous scientific, historical, social, and cultural issues. although poetic views are involved while raising such issues, it needs to be taken into account that not all poets have perceived the scientific principles of the topics tackled in...

Literary fiction has seldom been seriously considered as a mode of science communication. Here, I review novels from the 19th century canon of English literature in which characters either have, or aspire to have, substantive professional scientific roles to see what insights they provide into the practice of science in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. They reflect the historical transition of...