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Seeing new worlds : Henry David Thoreau and nineteenth-century natural science / Laura Dassow Walls

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Walls, Laura Dassow
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Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, [1995]
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©1995
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1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages).
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English.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Facts and Truth: Transcendental Science from Cambridge to Concord -- Nominalists, Realists, Idealists: Harvard and After, 1837 -- Romantic Theologies -- Natural History before Walden -- 2. Empire of Thought and the Republic of Particulars -- Law as Logos -- Rational Holism -- Organic Machine: Making Matter Mind -- Emergent Laws -- Empirical Holism -- 3. Seeing New Worlds: Thoreau and Humboldtian Science -- Alexander von Humboldt, the "Napoleon of Science" -- Fronting Nature at Walden, 1845-1847 -- After Walden: Old Worlds and New -- 4. Cosmos: Knowing as Worlding -- Thoreau as Humboldtian -- Relational Knowing: Thoreau's Epistemology of Contact -- Writing the Cosmos: Walden -- 5. Plurality of Worlds -- Intentions of the Eye -- Worlds without End: The Dispersion of Seeds -- Transcendentalist at the Cattle Show: Thoreau's Ironic Science -- 6. Walking the Holy Land -- Contingent Wholes: A Few Herbs and Apples -- Chance and Necessity: The Laughter of the Loon -- "Walking, or the Wild" -- Conclusion: Disciplining Thoreau.
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0585081158 (electronic bk.)
9780585081151 (electronic bk.)
9780299147433 (electronic bk.)
0299147436 (electronic bk.)
1282424084
9781282424081
9786612424083
6612424087
0299147444 (pbk.)
9780299147402
0299147401
9780299147440
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-293) and index.
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