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Stone Breaker : The Poet James Gates Percival and the Beginning of Geology in New England /
"Percival probed the volcanic origins of rock via geology and the seething nature of his psyche via poetry. Stone Breaker is an in-depth, accessible biography of a true American polymath, James Gates Percival. A poet, linguist, and unstable savant Percival was also a brilliant geologist who wal...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Middletown, Connecticut :
Wesleyan University Press,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Percival probed the volcanic origins of rock via geology and the seething nature of his psyche via poetry. Stone Breaker is an in-depth, accessible biography of a true American polymath, James Gates Percival. A poet, linguist, and unstable savant Percival was also a brilliant geologist who walked thousands of miles crisscrossing first Connecticut and then Wisconsin to lay the foundation for the work of generations of Earth scientists. Exploring the confluences of literature, art, and geology, Kathleen L. Housley reveals how one of most famous poets of the 1820's became a renowned geologist with his groundbreaking 1843 work Report on the Geology of the State of Connecticut. 35 color images include historic photographs and paintings of the Connecticut landscape"-- "First biography of nineteenth-century poet, linguist, model for the main character in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," and brilliant geologist whose seven arduous years walking back and forth across the entire state of Connecticut lay the foundation for the work of generations of Earth scientists"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (206 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780819500298 |