Life Of Alexander Von Humboldt
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Life Of Alexander Von Humboldt
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Author : Julius Löwenberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Life Of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Julius Löwenberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Diplomats categories.
Life Of Alexander Von Humboldt
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Author : Carl Bruhns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Life Of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Carl Bruhns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Explorers categories.
Life Of Alexander Von Humboldt Vol I In Two Volumes
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Author : Julius Lowenberg
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Life Of Alexander Von Humboldt Vol I In Two Volumes written by Julius Lowenberg and has been published by Cosimo, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Charles Darwin called him "the greatest traveling scientist who ever lived." Thomas Jefferson considered him "the most important scientist whom I have met." He was German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), and when he died, the entire Western world mourned the loss of one of the most notable scientists and popularizers of science of his day. His five-volume masterwork, Kosmos, sought to unify humanity's understanding of the natural world in the mid 19th century, and brought a modern understanding of science to lay audiences for the first time. This was the first comprehensive biography of the man and his work, written to celebrate the centenary of his birth by German authors ALFRED DOVE (1844-1916), JULIUS L WENBERG (1800-1893), and ROBERT AV -LALLEMANT (1812-1884)-the latter himself an explorer-and first published in English 1873. Though its subject was a private man about whom some things shall never be known-he burned much of his personal correspondence-these two volumes draw on firsthand memories, von Humboldt's writings, and other primary sources to create a dazzlingly engrossing portrait of the man who built the foundations of modern science. Volume I covers von Humboldt's youth and young adulthood-from the significance of his name to his schooling and university years to his first employment in the mining industry-through his first travels in Russia and the New World, including his expedition to the Orinoco, his visit to Cuba, and his explorations in Mexico.
Life Of Alexander Von Humboldt
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Author : Carl Bruhns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Life Of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Carl Bruhns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Diplomats categories.
Life Of Alexander Von Humboldt
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Author : J. Löwenberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Life Of Alexander Von Humboldt written by J. Löwenberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Diplomats categories.
Humboldt
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Author : Helmut De Terra
language : en
Publisher: Octagon Press, Limited
Release Date : 1979
Humboldt written by Helmut De Terra and has been published by Octagon Press, Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Life Of Alexander Von Humboldt
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Author : J. Löwenberg
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-09-26
Life Of Alexander Von Humboldt written by J. Löwenberg and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-26 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
The Life Travels And Books Of Alexander Von Humboldt
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Author : Richard Henry Stoddard
language : en
Publisher: New York : Rudd & Carleton
Release Date : 1809
The Life Travels And Books Of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Richard Henry Stoddard and has been published by New York : Rudd & Carleton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1809 with Naturalists categories.
The Invention Of Nature
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Author : Andrea Wulf
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-09-15
The Invention Of Nature written by Andrea Wulf and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with Nature categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism. "Vivid and exciting.... Wulf’s pulsating account brings this dazzling figure back into a dazzling, much-deserved focus.” —The Boston Globe Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever changed the way we understand the natural world. Among his most revolutionary ideas was a radical conception of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. In North America, Humboldt’s name still graces towns, counties, parks, bays, lakes, mountains, and a river. And yet the man has been all but forgotten. In this illuminating biography, Andrea Wulf brings Humboldt’s extraordinary life back into focus: his prediction of human-induced climate change; his daring expeditions to the highest peaks of South America and to the anthrax-infected steppes of Siberia; his relationships with iconic figures, including Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson; and the lasting influence of his writings on Darwin, Wordsworth, Goethe, Muir, Thoreau, and many others. Brilliantly researched and stunningly written, The Invention of Nature reveals the myriad ways in which Humboldt’s ideas form the foundation of modern environmentalism—and reminds us why they are as prescient and vital as ever.
A Longing For Wide And Unknown Things
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Author : Maren Meinhardt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-01
A Longing For Wide And Unknown Things written by Maren Meinhardt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Alexander von Humboldt was the most admired scientist of his day. But the achievements for which he was most celebrated in his lifetime always fell short of perfection. When he climbed the Chimborazo, then believed to be the highest mountain in the world, he did not quite reach the top; he established the existence of the Casiquiare canal, between the great water systems of the Orinoco and the Amazon, but this had been well known to local people; and his magisterial work, Cosmos, was left unfinished. This was no coincidence. Humboldt's pursuit of an all-encompassing, immersive approach to science was a way of finding limits: of nature and of the scientist's own self. A Longing for Wide and Unknown Things portrays a scientific life lived in the era of German Romanticism - a time of radical change, where the focus on the individual placed a new value on feeling, and the pursuit of personal desires. As Humboldt himself admitted, he 'would have sailed to the remotest South Seas, even if it hadn't fulfilled any scientific purpose whatever'.
