CHRISTOPH IRMSCHER
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Emerson, Agassiz, and the Mind of God

June 5, 2013

Tags: Astronomy. Agassiz, Neptune, Jean Calvin, religion

Louis Agassiz and Harvard mathematician Benjamin Peirce contemplating the place of Cambridge, Mass., on the globe. Photograph by Antoine Sonel (Collection Christoph Irmscher).

For more on Agassiz's influence on Transcendentalism, see my new online essay on "The Reader's Almanac."

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