Edgar Allan Poe--Cosmologist? ... The treatise Eureka, which he published the year before his death in 1849, anticipates a surprising amount of modern science

Scientific American ^ | February 1, 2017 | René van Slooten

[Red Badger]

DNA is possibly THE MOST COMPLICATED MOLECULE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE, and we are supposed to believe that it ‘just happened’ to assemble itself out of an alphabet soup of chemicals that just happened to be in the same place at the same time. A molecule so fragile it starts to break down almost immediately.......................

[SunkenCiv]

The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Published in 1843 as “The Destruction of the World”
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tales_(Poe)/The_Conversation_of_Eiros_and_Charmion

A Descent into the Maelström
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tales_(Poe)/A_Descent_into_the_Maelstr%C3%B6m

and, some humor:

The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_the_Late_Edgar_Allan_Poe/Volume_1/The_Thousand-and-Second_Tale_of_Scheherazade