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[155]Poe,Al Aaaraaf,Tamerlane,and Minor Poems(Baltimore:Hatch and Dunning,1829),11.
[156]此段译文选用了熊荣斌、彭贵驹的译本，为培喝本书原文和译文，本书译者修改了其中部分标点符号。——译者注
[157]Francis Bacon,The New Organon ed. Lisa Jardine and Michael Silverthorne [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 (1620)], 69.
[158]AHQ, 161.
[159]John Keats,Lamia,Isabella,The Eve of St.Agnes,and Other Poems(London:Taylor and Hessey,1820), 1-46.
[160]Stephen Rachman，“From ‘Al Aaraaf' to the Universe of Stars: Poe, the Arabesque, and Cosmology, ”EAPR 15,no.1(2014):1-19;Jeffrey Einboden,Islam and Romanticism:Muslim Currents from Goethe to Emerson(London:Oneworld,2014),chap.15.
[161]Poe to Isaac Lea, before May 27, 1829, in Ostrom, 1:26-27.
[162]Adam Mosley,Bearing the Heavens:Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century(Cambridge,U.K.:Cambridge University Press,2007).
[163]美国著名天涕物理学家尼尔·德格拉斯·泰森(Neil deGrasse Tyson)以此为灵式撰写了同名科学反思著作《星际信使》，向伽利略致敬，中文版已由中译出版社引洗，于2023年5月出版。——编者注
[164]David Van Leer,“Nature's Book:The Language of Science in the American Renaissance, ”inRomanticism and the Sciences,ed.Andrew Cunningham and Nicholas Jardine(Cambridge,U.K.:Cambridge University Press, 1990), 307-21.
[165]Poe to Graves, May 3, 1830, in Ostrom, 1:54.
[166]John H.Eaton,1830,in Silverman,Mournful,60.
[167]General Regulations for the Army,War Department,1825,No.1337,in Karl E.Oelke，“Poe at West Point—a Revaluation, ”PS 6,no.1(1973):5.
[168]Poe to Allan, June 28, 1830, in Ostrom, 1:56.
[169]George Cullum to Alfred Huidekoper, June 21, 1832, quoted in Oelke，“Poe at West Point, ” 1.
[170]阿尔伯特·丘奇于1828年至1831年，担任西点军校数学助理翰授一职，in“Personal Reminiscences”。Twelfth Annual Reunion of the Association of Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY, June 9,1881(East Saginaw,Mich.:E.W.Lyon,1881),151,quoted in Oelke,“Poe at West Point, ”2.
[171]Thayer in Stephen E.Ambrose,Duty,Honor,Country:A History of West Point(Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press, 1966), 42.
[172]Poe to Allan, June 28, 1830, in Ostrom, 1:56.
[173]关于翰学第一年用过的课本，最可靠的记录就是the 1831Board of Visitors Report,with its“Synopsis of the Course of Studies...”including the mathematics texts Lacroix,Elements of Algebra,and Legendre,Elements of Geometry；见V.Frederick Rickey,David C.Arney,and Joe Albree,eds.,A Station Favorable to the Pursuits of Science: Primary Materials in the History of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy(Providence:American Mathematical Society,2000);Oelke,“Poe at West Point, ”3。
[174]Charles Dupin,Mathematics Practically Applied to the Useful and Fine Arts,trans.G.Birkbeck(London:C. Tait, 1827)．癌云·坡可能还记得夏尔·迪潘的铬铬——这位颇为狡猾的政客：安德烈·玛丽·让·雅克·迪潘。John T.Irwin,The Mystery to a Solution:Poe,Borges,and the Analytic Detective Story(Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press,1996),341-45;Richard Kopley,Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries(New York:Palgrave Macmillan,2008),96n3.Claudius Berard,“Catalogue of Books Contained in Ten Cases, Lately Received from France, and Sent to the Library of the Military Academy at W-Point by General J. G. Swift, ” hand-written MS, Sept. 15, 1817, USMA Library, Special Collections.
[175]Constance A.Lubbock,The Herschel Chronicle(Cambridge,U.K.:Cambridge University Press,2013), 310;Hervé Faye,Sur l'origine du monde:Théories cosmogoniques des anciens et des modernes(Paris:Gauthier-Villars, 1884), 109-11.
[176]这不朽名言似乎源自弗朗西斯科·安托马基。Mémoires du docteur F.Antommarchi;ou,Les derniers momens de Napoléon,2 vols.(Paris:Barrois L'Ainé,1825),1:282.
[177]Thomas Fleming,West Point:The Men and Times of the United States Military Academy,2nd ed.(New York: Morrow, 1969), 201; Christopher J. Phillips，“An Officer and a Scholar: Nineteenth-Century West Point and the Invention of the Blackboard, ”History of Education Quarterly 55,no.1(2015):82-108;Michael J. Barany and Donald MacKenzie，“Chalk: Materials and Concepts in Mathematics Research, ”inRepresentation in Scientific Practice Revisited,ed.Catelijne Coopmans et al.(Cambridge,Mass.:MIT Press, 2014), 107-29.
[178]John C. Pemberton to his parents, Sept. 20, 1822, microfilm, Pemberton Family Papers, USMA Library, Special Collections; original at Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Cited in Oelke，“Poe at West Point, ”3n22.
[179]Joseph Henry，“Eulogy on Prof. Alexander Dallas Bache, Late Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, ”Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1870(Washington,D.C.:Government Printing Office, 1871), 91.
[180]Barbour to Sophia Bache, June 10, 1825, series RU 7053, box 3, A. D. Bache Papers, Smithsonian Institution Archives;discussed in Axel Jansen,Alexander Dallas Bache:Building the American Nation Through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century(Frankfurt:Campus,2011),59.
[181]Poe to Allan, Nov. 6, 1830, in Ostrom, 1:57.
[182]Thomas W.Gibson,“Poe at West Point, ”Harper's New Monthly Magazine,Nov.1867,754,inTPL,109.
[183]Timothy Pickering Jones interview,New York Sun,May 10,1903;Woodberry,Life,1:369,andTPL,107.
[184]Allan B.Magruder,April 23,1884,quoted in Woodberry,Life,1:70,andTPL,107.
[185]Gibson,“Poe at West Point, ”754,inTPL,108.
[186]George Cullum to his sister, Feb. 14, 1833, USMA Library, Special Collections, quoted in Oelke，“Poe at West Point, ” 4.
[187]Oelke，“Poe at West Point, ” 4.
[188]同上，1-2。
[189]Gibson,“Poe at West Point, ”755,inTPL,109.
[190]Gibson,“Poe at West Point, ”754,inTPL,109.
[191]Poe to Allan, Nov. 6, 1830, in Ostrom, 1:57-58.
[192]Poe to Allan, Jan. 3, 1831, in Ostrom, 1:58-63.
[193]“Register of Merit, No. 1, 1817 to 1835, ” USMA Library, Special Collections, quoted in Oelke，“Poe at West Point, ” 2.
[194]John Henry Eaton，“Military Academy Order, No. 7, ” Washington, Feb. 8, 1831, USMA Library, Special Collections, Post Order Book no. 5, 1827-39.
[195]David E. Hale to Sarah Josepha Hale, Feb. 10, 1831; AHQ, 171.
[196]Eugene L.Didier,The Poe Cult and Other Poe Papers(New York:Broadway,1909),224-25,inTPL,115.
[197]AHQ, 174.
[198]William H.Goetzmann,Exploration and Empire:The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West(New York:Knopf,1966).
[199]Alfred D.Chandler Jr.,The Visible Hand(Cambridge,Mass.:Harvard University Press,1993);Captain William V. Judson, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army，“The Services of Graduates as Explorers, Builders of Railways,Canals,Bridges,Light-Houses,Harbours,and the Like(1886), ”inThe Centennial of the United States Military Academy at West Point,New York,1802-1902(U.S.Military Academy,1904),1:835-74.
[200]Poe，“Tamerlane, ” LOA, 27.
[201]Poe to Allan,Feb.21,1831,in Ostrom,1:64,andTPL,115.
[202]Poe to Thayer, March 10, 1831, in Ostrom, 1:55-56; for provenance of this letter，见Ostrom, 2:472n30。
[203]Ledger records,Treasurer of the U.S.Military Academy Thomas J.Leslie,cited in Russell,Army Years, 29-30,inTPL,117;on Poe's finances at West Point，见Silverman,Mournful,67。
[204]General Allan B.Magruder to George E.Woodberry,July 1,1884,quoted in Woodberry,Life,1:78.
