Watcher of the skies
David M. points to John Holbo waxing rhapsodic about chess as poetry last year; good stuff.
(I like pretty much every posting on that blog that I've read, and yet I don't read it regularly; so little time, so much to do! Speaking of which, I somehow missed until now the fact that Daniel Starr has a blog—although it's probably not what you would expect if your only exposure to Daniel has been "Why I Am Not Gorilla Girl"; it's a sort of three-in-one blog, with one piece of it being pretty political.)
Also spotted indirectly via David M.: Jonathan Vos Post in a brief aside on LiveJournal about why poetry is like mathematics.
All of which puts me in mind of one of my favorite sonnets, Keats's "On first looking into Chapman's Homer," which contains the following lines:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Which is my favorite example of a poet using science as a metaphor for the sense of wonder inspired by beautiful poetry.
One might be tempted to ramble on about the modern relevance or irrelevance of The Two Cultures, and about the quasi-rift between science fiction and fantasy, and so on. But then one might realize that it's long past time for dinner, and that one has other things one really ought to be doing. So one will refrain.