Walls, Laura Dassow. <br/><br/>
Seeing New Worlds :  Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (317 pages) 
 - Science and Literature Series .
 - Science and Literature Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780299147433 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Thoreau, Henry David,-1817-1862-Knowledge and learning.<br/>Natural history.<br/>Science.<br/>Literature and science-United States-History-19th century.<br/>Natural history-United States-History-19th century.<br/>Science in literature.<br/>Nature in literature.<br/>United States-Intellectual life-19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3057