He leaned into Le Voirs face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we who had provided the parameters would be fit within them. To hear him tell it, this classification of species was the hope of Man.
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About Claire Robertson, The Spiral House
Claire Robertson, The Spiral House.
Themes
- Science — Discovery, inquiry, and the wonders of the natural world