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

by Laura Dassow Walls and Laura Dassow

Book Overview

Thoreau was a poet, a naturalist, a major American writer. Was he also a scientist? He was, Laura Dassow Walls suggests. Her book, the first to consider Thoreau as a serious and committed scientist, will change the way we understand his accomplishment and the place of science in American culture.
Walls reveals that the scientific texts of Thoreau's day deeply influenced his best work, from Walden to the Journal to the late natural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299147444
• ISBN13: 9780299147440
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"