Walden′s Shore – Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth–Century Science
Autor Robert M. Thorsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2015
The story unfolds against the ferment of natural science in the nineteenth century, as Natural Theology gave way to modern secular science. That era saw one of the great blunders in the history of American science--the rejection of glacial theory. Thorson demonstrates just how close Thoreau came to discovering a "theory of everything" that could have explained most of the landscape he saw from the doorway of his cabin at Walden. At pivotal moments in his career, Thoreau encountered the work of the geologist Charles Lyell and that of his prot g Charles Darwin. Thorson concludes that the inevitable path of Thoreau's thought was descendental, not transcendental, as he worked his way downward through the complexity of life to its inorganic origin, the living rock.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780674088184
ISBN-10: 0674088182
Pagini: 440
Dimensiuni: 145 x 228 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Harvard University Press
ISBN-10: 0674088182
Pagini: 440
Dimensiuni: 145 x 228 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Harvard University Press
Descriere
Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of the "living rock" on which life's complexity depends-not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson's subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist, whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press.