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KRIEGER, WILLIAM CARL.

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU AND THE LIMITATIONS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE (MASSACHUSETTS).

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Title/Author:	HENRY DAVID THOREAU AND THE LIMITATIONS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE (MASSACHUSETTS)./
Author:	KRIEGER, WILLIAM CARL.
Description:	241 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-06, Section: A, page: 2206.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International47-06A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8622001

HENRY DAVID THOREAU AND THE LIMITATIONS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE (MASSACHUSETTS).
KRIEGER, WILLIAM CARL.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU AND THE LIMITATIONS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE (MASSACHUSETTS). - 241 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-06, Section: A, page: 2206.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington State University, 1986.

This study examines the early works (1837-48) of Henry David Thoreau in order to determine the extent to which Thoreau was limited by the scientific thinking of his day. While he was generally attracted to science because it emphasized comprehension of the facts and phenomena of nature, he disliked the Baconian science popular in his lifetime because it followed this emphasis to the near-exclusion of any insight or "philosophy." The usual contention among Thoreau scholars is that Thoreau gradually but reluctantly left his poetic sentiments behind in favor of the rigors of science. However, this study maintains that he did not begin from an unscientific position nor was he opposed to science. Instead, he followed an old-fashioned scientific course set at least as early as his student years at Harvard and reinforced by his later eclectic reading. Along the resulting archaic lines he derived an approach through which he attempted to portray his paradoxical vision of nature: it is always changing yet it is completely unified. To describe this quality, he thought, would require a different sort of language and framework from that of the currently popular taxonomy and classification systems.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU AND THE LIMITATIONS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE (MASSACHUSETTS).
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520 $a Thus, in his early Journals he worked the language and imagery of alchemy and elemental philosophy toward full expression of his scientific view in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers where the physical characteristics and elemental principle of water, as understood by alchemists and elemental philosophers, served him well to portray nature as he saw it--changing yet constant. Finally in recognition of the sublimity of this paradox, he concluded A Week in emblematic silence but, as this study argues, also having reached a point in his thinking which amounted to a comprehensive view of nature.
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