Stone Breaker (eBook)

The Poet James Gates Percival and the Beginning of Geology in New England

Kathleen L. Housley (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-0029-8 (ISBN)

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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 walked thousands of miles crisscrossing first Connecticut and then Wisconsin to lay the foundation for the work of generations of Earth scientists. Exploring the confluences of literature, art, and geology, Kathleen L. Housley reveals how one of most famous poets of the 1820's became a renowned geologist with his groundbreaking 1843 work Report on the Geology of the State of Connecticut. The book includes historic photographs and paintings of the Connecticut landscape.Publication of this book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.2023
• Reihe/Serie: The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books
• Reihe/Serie: The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Connecticut, New England history, biography, history, American history, 19th century history, 19th century literature, poetry history, Edgar Allen Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher, Earth science, renaissance man, literature, mental illness, fossils, renaissance man, polymath, Benjamin Silliman, Edward Hitchcock, eccentric, science, scientific history, scientist, geologist, research, Henry David Thoreau, natural history, mineralogy, metallurgy, Connecticut Valley, fieldwork, volcanic forces, religion, tra
• ISBN-10: 0-8195-0029-1 / 0819500291
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-0029-8 / 9780819500298