WorkCharles Fourier

Théorie des Quatre Mouvements [Theory of the Four Movements]

InferredFuller names Fourier explicitly and quotes his cosmological claim about the moon being 'no better than carrion.' Charles Fourier's bizarre cosmological theories — including his idea that the moon was a dead, inert, unhealthy body ? appear in his Théorie des Quatre Mouvements (1808) and related manuscripts.

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Documented 1843

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Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“since Fourier has found out that the moon is dead, and "no better than carrion;”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller names Fourier explicitly and quotes his cosmological claim about the moon being 'no better than carrion.' Charles Fourier's bizarre cosmological theories — including his idea that the moon was a dead, inert, unhealthy body ? appear in his Théorie des Quatre Mouvements (1808) and related manuscripts.