Seeing New Worlds : Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Facts and Truth: Transcendental Science from Cambridge to Concord -- Nominalists, Realists, Idealists: Harvard and After, 1837 -- Romantic Theologies -- Natural History before Walden -- 2. The Empire of Thought and the Republic of Particulars -- Law as Logos -- Rational Holism -- The 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. A Plurality of Worlds -- Intentions of the Eye -- Worlds without End: The Dispersion of Seeds -- The 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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