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

Bose, Jagadish Chandra

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

Inhaltsangabe

An internationally celebrated poet and critic brings Jagadish Chandra Bose's revolutionary writings on plant sentience and communication to English readers for the first time

Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) was a Bengali scientist and polymath who developed a theory of plant communication more than a century before Western scientists began to explore such ideas. Bose suggested that plants had their own vocabulary, an "unvoiced life" that he recorded as a "script" with a crescograph and other devices he invented to measure 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 whose originality and significance we at last are able to appreciate today.

Through her lyrical translations and selections 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. Roy, the author of How I Became a Tree, shows how Bose's work can shape how we understand ourselves as a species living alongside and inside the plant world.

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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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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300278403
ISBN 13 
9780300278408
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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