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100 _aWalls, Laura Dassow
245 _aEmerson`s Life in Science
_b The Culture of Truth
260 _aIthaca, New York
_bCornell University Press
_c2003
300 _a280p
500 _aincludes index and biblioraphy
505 2 _a1. The sphinx at the Crossroads .........4 The sun of science ..................4 The culture of truth .............13 Metaphor: Towards a poetics of Science .........22 2. Converting the world : Knowledge, science, power ..........33 The representative scholar: Emerson and bacon..............33 Nature: The art of God .............42 Reading science ..............42 3. Gnomic Science: The body and law .........68 The light of the Eye: Emerson`s Early career .............68 The Future at the Bottom of the Heart: The early science lectures and nature .............84 The anatomy of Truth: Emerson`s Ecstatic Science ................105 4. Global Polarity and the single life .............127 One plus one equals one ..............127 Polar coordinates : Kant to Guyot..................128 The mind goes antagonizing on : Polarity in Emerson ................143 5. Truth Against the world ........166 From vesicle to cosmos: Theories of Evolution ........166 The dilemma of Race ..............176 Quetelet Fate ..............187 6. The solar eye of Science .........199 Where there is light there will be eyes ..............199 Emerson and the Culture of Truth ................203
650 _aKnowledge
650 _aScience
650 _aLiterature
700 1 _aWalls, Laura Dassow
902 _bSFS
942 _cBK
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