Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift

• Hales, Stephen Catalog of the Scientific Community

Linguistics and Language

• notes abstracted from the book Bebop BYTES Back (An Unconventional Guide to Computers)
• (The Lagado Academy Text Machine) from Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, part 3, chapter 5 from the text machines text site
• A short introduction to glossopoiesis by Tommaso Donnarumma
• The Chomskybot - a kind of modern "literary engine"
• Ramon Lull's Ars Magna
• Natural versus artificial intelligence

Mathematics

• Math in Laputa
• Mathematical Quotations
• Math 8: The Mathematical Way of Thinking course at Brown University which includes discussion of the Travels.
• Historical, Literary, and Artistic Perspectives Geometry Updated, Brown University
  • Proportions and allometry by Jeremy Kahn
  • Historical, Literary, and Artistic Perspectives

Astronomy  

"They have likewise discovered two lesser Stars, or Satellites, which revolve about Mars..." (III:3;9)

• The Mysterious Moons of Mars
• Deimos: A Small Martian Moon NASA/ JPL Viking Project -- The existence of two Martian moons was predicted around 1610 by Johannes Kepler, the astronomer who derived the laws of planetary motion. In this case, Kepler's prediction was not based on scientific principles, but his writings and ideas were so influential that the two Martian moons are discussed in works of fiction such as Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", written in 1726, over 150 years before their actual discovery.
• Planet Mars in Popular Culture
• Desktop heavenly discoveries
• Hypothetical Planets -- Jonathan Swift in "Gulliver's Travels" wrote about two small moons orbiting Mars, known to the Lilliputian [sic] astronomers.
• The Moons of Mars: Hypothetical Planets

Health and Medicine

• Alzheimer's Disease: New Complexities and Some Insight from Molecular Genetic Investigations by Kenneth L. Garver, M.D., Ph.D. -- In 1726, Jonathan Swift wrote an excellent clinical description of AD in Gulliver's Travels. Swift described some of the natives as follows: "They have no remembrance of anything but what they learned and observed in their youth and middle age, and even that is very imperfect..."

Engineering

• Engine and Motor: Two closely-related words investigated
• Optical engineering comes to Lilliput

Psychology

• Freud's Interpretation of Dreams includes the following reference to the Travels

  Thus M. Simon tells of a dream in which he saw persons of gigantic stature[16] seated at a table, and heard distinctly the horrible clattering produced by the impact of their jaws as they chewed their food. On waking he heard the clatter of a horse's hooves as it galloped past his window. If in this case the sound of the horse's hooves had revived ideas from the memory-sphere of Gulliver's Travels, the sojourn with the giants of Brobdingnag, and the virtuous horse-like creatures- as I should perhaps interpret the dream without any assistance on the author's part- ought not the choice of a memory-sphere so alien to the stimulus to be further elucidated by other motives?

  16. Gigantic persons in a dream justify the assumption that the dream is dealing with a scene from the dreamer's childhood. This interpretation of the dream as a reminiscence of Gulliver's Travels is, by the way, a good example of how an interpretation should not be made. The dream-interpreter should not permit his own intelligence to operate in disregard of the dreamer's impressions.

• Interpretation of Dreams - other online edition
• Dr. Carl Gustav Jung and Swift's Gulliver's Travels J. Miller, English, U.S. Naval Academy

Other Sciences

• On Holy Wars And A Plea For Peace on computing's Big-Endian/Little-Endian schism