TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walls,Laura Dassow
TI  - Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science
T2  - Science and Literature Series
SN  - 9780299147433
AV  - PS3057 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Madison
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - Thoreau, Henry David,-1817-1862-Knowledge and learning
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Science
KW  - Literature and science-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Natural history-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Science in literature
KW  - Nature in literature
KW  - United States-Intellectual life-19th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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