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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... Book Thoreau's Literary Notebook MW Maine Woods NHE Natural History Essays RP Reform Papers WA Walden WK A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson CW Collected Works JMN Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks ...
... Concord River , included in the opening chapter of A Week , and complete ... Concord Academy due to John's ill health . He spent the decade of the 1840s ... book titles he is " oppressed by an inevitable sadness " ( 1 : 337-38 ; 11 ...
... Concord and Merrimack Rivers , planned as his tribute to his brother John ... book and its aftermath , that Henry was so stricken that he too came down ... book that was to gather up his life's reading and writing , link it to the ...
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15 | |
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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