2 papers
physics.soc-ph2023
"The greatest Poet that has [n]ever existed" -- A Narrative Networks Analysis of the Poems of Ossian
Ralph Kenna, Padraig MacCarron, Thierry Platini +2
Surprising as it may seem, applications of statistical methods to physics were inspired by the social sciences, which in turn are linked to the humanities. So perhaps it is not as…
physics.soc-ph2016
A Networks-Science Investigation into the Epic Poems of Ossian
Joseph Yose, Ralph Kenna, Pádraig MacCarron +2
In 1760 James Macpherson published the first volume of a series of epic poems which he claimed to have translated into English from ancient Scottish-Gaelic sources. The poems, whic…