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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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Autor principal: Housley, Kathleen L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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