Poet Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be the first to solve Olber's paradox in a poem of 1848. Lord Kelvin came with the same argument 50-ish years later, however the solution would not be agreed upon until experimental verification in the 1920-1930s of a non-static universe.

Poet Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be the first to solve Olber's paradox in Eureka: A prose poem of 1848. Lord Kelvin came with the same argument 50-ish years later, however the solution would not be agreed upon until experimental verification in the 1920-1930s of a non-static universe.