[PDF.27pq] The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and the Imagination

The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and the Imagination

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 | #1607945 in Books |  Eric G Wilson |  2009-11-17 |  2009-11-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.66 x5.50l,.85 | File type: PDF | 278 pages

 | The Spiritual History of Ice Romanticism Science and the Imagination

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Quest for the Poles as Romance and Imagination|By Roger D. Launius|For humanity the Earth's Poles have been mythological in both concept and fact. Our obsession with them has been discussed in several outstanding books that explore the place of the Arctic and Antarctica in the human imagination. An excellent place to start any investigation of this issue is Eric G. Wilson's "Th| ||"Like crystalline forms, this book is weird and wondrous . . .Wilson presents his wide-ranging and energetic research in gripping, narrative fashion." - Gothic Studies |"Wilson's account is intelligent and his style eloquent. . . . . [He] is particularly ins

At the end of the eighteenth century, scientists for the first time demonstrated what medieval and renaissance alchemists had long suspected; ice is not lifeless but vital, a crystalline revelation of vigorous powers. Studied in esoteric and exoterical representations of frozen phenomena, several Romantic figures - including Coleridge and Poe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emerson and Thoreau - challenged traditional notions of ice as waste and instead celebrated crystals, gla...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and the Imagination   |  E. Wilson. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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