Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural ScienceUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1 de nov. de 1995 - 232 páginas Thoreau was a poet, a naturalist, a major American writer. Was he also a scientist? He was, Laura Dassow Walls suggests. Her book, the first to consider Thoreau as a serious and committed scientist, will change the way we understand his accomplishment and the place of science in American culture. |
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... theologians built Baconian , inductive science into a bulwark protecting doctrinal purity and security , their own deliberate counterthrust against the eighteenth - century effort to portray science as Facts and Truth 29.
... Baconian . " Customarily this establishes a neat division between the old - fashioned or conservative " Baconians , " practicing the " normal " science of their day , and their romantic ( and doomed ) challengers . Baconian science ...
... Baconian science , such a thing must have existed . Susan Faye Cannon discusses , and dismisses , the label of " Baconian , " for as she says , Bacon was taught in the nineteenth century as an advocate of " a method of analysis ...
... Baconian " forms , and idealism's various all - embracing systems all relied on the foundational premise that objects in the real world manifest the thoughts of God . This key assumption underwrote both the concern for collection and ...
... Baconian " surveys , written , as Thoreau admits at the end , to serve the state's need for " complete catalogues of its natural riches , with such additional facts merely as would be directly useful " ( NHE 28 ) . This would not seem ...
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2 The Empire of Thought and the Republic of Particulars | 53 |
Thoreau and Humboldtian Science | 94 |
Knowing as Worlding | 131 |
5 A Plurality of Worlds | 167 |
6 Walking the Holy Land | 212 |
Notes | 255 |
Bibliography | 280 |
Index | 294 |
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