The Man Who Made Plants Write: Essays by Jagadish Chandra Bose - Couverture rigide

Bose, Jagadish Chandra

 
9780300278408: The Man Who Made Plants Write: Essays by Jagadish Chandra Bose
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ISBN 10 : 0300278403 ISBN 13 : 9780300278408
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2026

Synopsis

An internationally celebrated poet and critic translates Jagadish Chandra Bose’s revolutionary writings on plant sentience and communication Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) was a Bengali scientist and polymath who developed a theory of plant communication more than a century ago. Bose suggested that plants had their own vocabulary, an “unvoiced life” that he recorded as a “script” with a crescograph, a device that measured how plants respond to each other and their environments. Inviting readers into the “resounding silence of the green plant kingdom,” he described an underlying unity beneath the multiplicity of phenomena, and a world in which “endless music is sung everywhere.” Dismissed as idiosyncratic and unscientific when he was alive, Bose provocatively challenged the hierarchy of living beings, which relegated plants to the bottom, and created a mesmerizing body of work on nonhuman intelligence. Through her lyrical translations from Bose’s essay collection Abyakta (“The Unsaid”; 1922), Sumana Roy reveals the revolutionary character of his mind, as poetic and philosophical as it was scientific.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) was a pioneer in radio waves, electromagnetism, and plant science. His books published in English include Response in the Living and Non-Living (1902) and The Nervous Mechanism of Plants (1926). Sumana Roy is the author of three works of nonfiction, How I Became a Tree, Provincials, and Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal; Missing: A Novel; My Mother's Lover and Other Stories; and two collections of poems, Out of Syllabus and VIP: Very Important Plant.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300278403
ISBN 13 
9780300278408
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
144
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