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Considering Thoreau as a serious, committed scientist, this book offers an alternative understanding of his accomplishment and the place of science in American literature. It shows how Thoreau's experience reveals the interaction between Romanticism and the dynamic, law-seeking science of its day.

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“An excellent book, well-written, even eloquent. Walls is clearly the first scholar to read Thoreau thoroughly in the context both of the science of his own day and of the theory and philosophy of science in our day, in such a way as profoundly to call into question all previous work in this area and to open up questions about the very nature of science and scientific truth.” —Robert Sattelmeyer, Georgia State University

Seeing New Worlds Henry David Thoreau and

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    Publisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
    Publication Date: 10/31/1995 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780299147440, 978-0299147440
    ISBN10: 0299147444
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Considering Thoreau as a serious, committed scientist, this book offers an alternative understanding of his accomplishment and the place of science in American literature. It shows how Thoreau's experience reveals the interaction between Romanticism and the dynamic, law-seeking science of its day.

    Trade Review
    “An excellent book, well-written, even eloquent. Walls is clearly the first scholar to read Thoreau thoroughly in the context both of the science of his own day and of the theory and philosophy of science in our day, in such a way as profoundly to call into question all previous work in this area and to open up questions about the very nature of science and scientific truth.” —Robert Sattelmeyer, Georgia State University

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