{"product_id":"the-spiritual-history-of-ice-romanticism-science-and-the-imagination-0230619711","title":"The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and the Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0230619711\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wilson, E.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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, glaciers, and the poles as special disclosures of a holistic principle of being. The Spiritual History of Ice explores this ecology of frozen shapes in fascinating detail, revealing not only a neglected current of the Romantic age but also a secret history and psychology of ice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51695002157344,"sku":"NEW0230619711","price":61.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/618caqZ7XXL.jpg?v=1779380401","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-spiritual-history-of-ice-romanticism-science-and-the-imagination-0230619711","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}