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Emerson's life in science : the culture of truth /

"Ralph Waldo Emerson has traditionally been cast as a dreamer and a mystic, concerned with the ideals of transcendentalism rather than the realities of contemporary science and technology. In Laura Dassow Walls's view Emerson was a leader of the secular avant-garde in his day. He helped to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walls, Laura Dassow
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Sphinx at the crossroads
  • Converting the world: knowledge, science, power
  • Gnomic science: the body and the law
  • Global polarity and the single life
  • Truth against the world
  • The solar eye of science.