{"product_id":"the-man-who-made-plants-write-essays-by-jagadish-chandra-bose-9780300278408","title":"The Man Who Made Plants Write: Essays by Jagadish Chandra Bose","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn internationally celebrated poet and critic translates Jagadish Chandra Bose's revolutionary writings on plant sentience and communication\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) was a Bengali scientist and polymath who developed a theory of plant communication more than a century ago. Bose suggested that plants had their own vocabulary, an \"unvoiced life\" that he recorded as a \"script\" with a crescograph, a device that measured how plants respond to each other and their environments. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInviting 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough her lyrical translations 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jagadish Chandra Bose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300278408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJagadish Chandra Bose\u003c\/b\u003e (1858-1937) was a pioneer in radio waves, electromagnetism, and plant science. His books published in English include \u003ci\u003eResponse in the Living and Non-Living\u003c\/i\u003e (1902) and \u003ci\u003eThe Nervous Mechanism of Plants\u003c\/i\u003e (1926). \u003cb\u003eSumana Roy\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eHow I Became a Tree\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProvincials\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePlant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Jagadish Chandra Bose \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47809150976157,"sku":"9780300278408","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_ef7a3ac4-59ea-4316-bf9b-45d83c9c3a66.jpg?v=1775557284","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-man-who-made-plants-write-essays-by-jagadish-chandra-bose-9780300278408","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}