Author: Matthew Henry BarkerPublisher:
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Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Floating Remembrances and Sketches of a Sea Life
Author: Matthew Henry BarkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Floating Remembrances and Sketches of a Sea Life
Author: Matthew Henry BarkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Dearden's Miscellany
Author: Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature: D-G
Author: Samuel HalkettPublisher:
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Catalogue of the Liverpool Free Public Library
Author: Liverpool (England). Free Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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The Age of Analogy
Author: Devin GriffithsPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421420775
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
How did literature shape nineteenth-century science? Erasmus Darwin and his grandson, Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Although their ideas and methods differed, both Darwins were prolific and inventive writers: Erasmus composed several epic poems and scientific treatises, while Charles is renowned both for his collected journals (now titled The Voyage of the Beagle) and for his masterpiece, The Origin of Species. In The Age of Analogy, Devin Griffiths argues that the Darwins’ writing style was profoundly influenced by the poets, novelists, and historians of their era. The Darwins, like other scientists of the time, labored to refashion contemporary literary models into a new mode of narrative analysis that could address the contingent world disclosed by contemporary natural science. By employing vivid language and experimenting with a variety of different genres, these writers gave rise to a new relational study of antiquity, or “comparative historicism,” that emerged outside of traditional histories. It flourished instead in literary forms like the realist novel and the elegy, as well as in natural histories that explored the continuity between past and present forms of life. Nurtured by imaginative cross-disciplinary descriptions of the past—from the historical fiction of Sir Walter Scott and George Eliot to the poetry of Alfred Tennyson—this novel understanding of history fashioned new theories of natural transformation, encouraged a fresh investment in social history, and explained our intuition that environment shapes daily life. Drawing on a wide range of archival evidence and contemporary models of scientific and literary networks, The Age of Analogy explores the critical role analogies play within historical and scientific thinking. Griffiths also presents readers with a new theory of analogy that emphasizes language's power to foster insight into nature and human society. The first comparative treatment of the Darwins’ theories of history and their profound contribution to the study of both natural and human systems, this book will fascinate students and scholars of nineteenth-century British literature and the history of science.
A Garden Walk
Author: Toni Poll-SorensenPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796027596
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
Along the way, I sowed both love and anger in those gardens. Sometimes, the garden was a place where I worked out my problems. And most of the times, I planted with love. I moved babies into new gardens, giving space to the mother plant or creating beautiful borders for more mature gardens. I always believed that I would be that little old lady of eighty or more years who took care of two to three acres of flower and vegetable gardens. However, as we all know, life takes strange turns. I now live in a tropical environment, and I garden in pots on my lanai. I enjoy the foliage on a protected dune, and I am still learning the names of new plant materials. I have learned about myself, my emotions, and my environment by gardening. I hope you will enjoy my reflections on life in and out of the garden.
The Publishers' Circular
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Floating Remembrances and Sketches of a Sea Life
Author: Old SailorPublisher:
ISBN: 9780371257715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
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