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Thus, the young brilliant Newton and the old blind Milton were contemporaries during particularly creative periods of their professional lives. In these years Newton invented the calculus, conceptualized gravity, and performed the prism experiment separating light into individual colors which became the basis for his theory of colors and his book of 1704, Optiks. Newton's anni mirabiles, as he called them, his miracle years, extended from 1664 to 1666, when Milton was also finishing the first of his biblical epics. Poetic cosmologies are the meeting point of scientific and religious concepts, and Milton and Milosz's systems in their descriptions of the physical universe serve as bookends to the Newtonian phase of the scientific revolution. Despite differences in era and language, Milosz and Milton's cosmologies offer excellent counterpoints to each other.

formulated his system two hundred and fifty years earlier in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.

(1) His predecessor in the genre, Englishman John Milton. Oskar Milosz, France's contribution to cosmologic poetry, conceived his universe in the 1920s in the 'poems' Ars Magna and Les Arcanes.

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