The Skillful Engineer
The Skillful Engineer
Thoreau made several surveys purely for the pleasure of experimentation. In addition to the surveys of Walden in 1846 and White Pond in 1851, Thoreau apparently made a recreational plan of the Old Marlborough Road sometime in the 1840s. During his paid surveying jobs in and around Concord, Thoreau often carried out “unnecessary” science, recording data that were of value only to himself as writer-naturalist. He often carried portable surveying instruments on his almost daily woodland excursions.
Keywords: scientific experiment, data recording, surveying instruments, pocket compass, recreational plan, land surveying
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