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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... observational sciences must make " slow , uncertain , and irregular " progress unless and until they too become susceptible to experiment ( 77-78 ) . Specialization and disciplinary boundaries ultimately prevailed because they created ...
... observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service . " And as Thoreau added , " Every man thus tracks himself through life , in all his hearing and reading and observation and travelling . His observations make a ...
... observation and induction , " and rests on nothing but the " terra firma of facts " -- that is , " the manifestation of reason within the narrow but luminous sphere of individual consciousness " ( 228 ) . History , according to Cousin ...
... observation , and inductive reasoning . 9 In the " new philosophy " which was being introduced to Thoreau through Cousin , Emerson , and Coleridge , objects of nature had no independent existence . They were the thoughts of God . Cousin ...
... observation , but his particulars are not just pieces in a preformed puzzle . They have their own wonder : Today I watched the amusing behaviour of the mussels , limpets , and crabs . What an amazing thing a living organism is ! How ...
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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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