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An immersive reading of ‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer’ by Walt Whitman with reflection on ways of seeing and the art and science of medicine. 

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When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman

 When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

References

 Dao, Analeigh, "Emotional and Social Responses to Stargazing: What Does It Mean To Lose the Dark?" (2016). Honors Projects. 180.