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Emerson's Life in Science : The Culture of Truth /

"In Emerson's Life in Science, she makes the case that no study of literary history can be complete without embracing science as part of literature. Conversely, she maintains, no history of science is complete unless we consider the role played by writers of literature who helped to instal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walls, Laura Dassow
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.