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Address Delivered On The Centennial Anniversary Of The Birth Of Alexander Von Humboldt With An Account Of The Evening Reception
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Book Synopsis Address Delivered on the Centennial Anniversary of the Birth of Alexander Von Humboldt by : Louis Agassiz
Download or read book Address Delivered on the Centennial Anniversary of the Birth of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Louis Agassiz and published by Boston : Boston society of natural history. This book was released on 1869 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains poems and remarks by Holmes, Whittier, Emerson, and Howe.
Book Synopsis The Humboldt Current by : Aaron Sachs
Download or read book The Humboldt Current written by Aaron Sachs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterly and beautifully written account of the impact of Alexander von Humboldt on nineteenth-century American history and culture The naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) achieved unparalleled fame in his own time. Today, however, he and his enormous legacy to American thought are virtually unknown. In The Humboldt Current, Aaron Sachs traces Humboldt's pervasive influence on American history through examining the work of four explorers—J. N. Reynolds, Clarence King, George Wallace, and John Muir—who embraced Humboldt's idea of a "chain of connection" uniting all peoples and all environments. A skillful blend of narrative and interpretation that also discusses Humboldt's influence on Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Melville, and Poe, The Humboldt Current offers a colorful, passionate, and superbly written reinterpretation of nineteenth-century American history.
Book Synopsis The Passage to Cosmos by : Laura Dassow Walls
Download or read book The Passage to Cosmos written by Laura Dassow Walls and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humboldt offered the world a vision of humans & nature as integrated halves of a single whole. He espoused the idea that while the univerise of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty & order are human achievements. Laura Dassow Walls traces the emergence of this philosophy to Humboldt's 1799 journey to America.
Book Synopsis Address Delivered on the Centennial Anniversary of the Birth of Alexander Von Humboldt ... By Louis Agassiz, Etc by : Boston Society of Natural History (BOSTON, Massachusetts)
Download or read book Address Delivered on the Centennial Anniversary of the Birth of Alexander Von Humboldt ... By Louis Agassiz, Etc written by Boston Society of Natural History (BOSTON, Massachusetts) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Louis Agassiz by : Christoph Irmscher
Download or read book Louis Agassiz written by Christoph Irmscher and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is not just about a man of science but also about a scientific culture in the making—warts and all.” —The New York Times Book Review Charismatic and controversial Swiss immigrant Louis Agassiz took America by storm in the early nineteenth century, becoming a defining force in American science. Yet today, many don’t know the complex story behind this revolutionary figure. At a young age, Agassiz—zoologist, glaciologist, and paleontologist—was invited to deliver a series of lectures in Boston, and he never left. An obsessive pioneer in field research, Agassiz enlisted the American public in a vast campaign to send him natural specimens, dead or alive, for his ingeniously conceived museum of comparative zoology. As an educator of enduring impact, he trained a generation of American scientists and science teachers, men and women alike—and entered into collaboration with his brilliant wife, Elizabeth, a science writer in her own right and first president of Radcliffe College. But there was a dark side to his reputation as well. Biographer Christoph Irmscher reveals unflinching evidence of Agassiz’s racist impulses and shows how avidly Americans at the time looked to men of science to mediate race policy. He also explores Agassiz’s stubborn resistance to evolution, his battles with a student—renowned naturalist Henry James Clark—and how he became a source of endless bemusement for Charles Darwin and esteemed botanist Asa Gray. “A wonderful . . . biography,” both inspiring and cautionary, it is for anyone interested in the history of American ideas (The Christian Science Monitor). “A model of what a talented and erudite literary scholar can do with a scientific subject.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Book Synopsis Introduction to the Study of Natural History by : Louis Agassiz
Download or read book Introduction to the Study of Natural History written by Louis Agassiz and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features Louis Agassiz’s seminal lecture course in which the Swiss-American scientist, a self-styled “American Humboldt,” summarized the state of zoological knowledge in his time. Though Darwin’s theory of evolution would soon dismantle his idealist science, Agassiz’s lectures are nonetheless modern in their insistence on the social and cultural importance of the scientific enterprise. An extensive, well-illustrated introduction by Agassiz’s biographer, Christoph Irmscher, situates Agassiz’s lectures in the context of his life and nineteenth-century science, while also confronting the deeply problematic aspects of his legacy. Profusely annotated, this edition offers fascinating insights into the history of science and appeals to anyone with an interest in zoology and natural history. “Christoph Irmscher provides a scholarly and insightful analysis of the intentions and beliefs of Louis Agassiz, a larger-than-life scientist of the mid-19th century and fierce opponent of Charles Darwin. One of the foremost naturalists of his time, Agassiz’s encyclopedic knowledge and brash confidence sustained bold and often controversial theories, which contributed to extreme intellectual ferment at the dawn of contemporary evolutionary biology.” James Hanken, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Harvard University, USA
Book Synopsis American Authors, 1795-1895 by : Patrick Kevin Foley
Download or read book American Authors, 1795-1895 written by Patrick Kevin Foley and published by Boston : Printed for subscribers. This book was released on 1897 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Address Delivered On the Centennial Anniversary Of the Birth Of Alexander Von Humboldt, Under the Auspices Of the Boston Society Of Natural History, By Louis Agassiz. With an Account Of the Evening Reception by : Julia Ward Howe
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Book Synopsis On the Carboniferous Myriapods, Preserved in the Sigillarian Stumps of Nova Scotia by : Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Download or read book On the Carboniferous Myriapods, Preserved in the Sigillarian Stumps of Nova Scotia written by Samuel Hubbard Scudder and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs Read Before the Boston Society of Natural History by : Boston Society of Natural History
Download or read book Memoirs Read Before the Boston Society of Natural History written by Boston Society of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Embryology of Terebratulina by : Edward Sylvester Morse
Download or read book Embryology of Terebratulina written by Edward Sylvester Morse and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Climate Change on Mountains by : Olivier Dangles
Download or read book Climate Change on Mountains written by Olivier Dangles and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is warming up rapidly and this change is most noticeable in mountains with already observable consequences on flora and fauna. This book presents concepts, methodologies and major achievements of recent research in climate change ecology in mountains by placing this research in a historical perspective, that of travelers and naturalists of the Romantic era, and first of all Alexander von Humboldt. There is now a renewed interest, both in academia and beyond, in Humboldt, his writings and his view of nature. But how can we actually make use of his writings? How can we put his philosophy into practice? How can we still learn from past scientific figures and do a better science today? In this book, the author presents how it is possible to succeed in modern science by returning to sources, by renewing the tradition of past polymaths such as Humboldt, and by having a fully humanistic approach in science. He illustrates his point based on his 15-year experience in the study of the ecological effects of climate change in the tropical Andes, showing how he has incorporated approaches from other disciplines, from different branches of science, from history and the arts to achieve a more comprehensive view of his scientific field. Alongside hard data, discoveries by past naturalists build our understanding of the world but appealing to our emotions makes us want to understand it. In the author’s view this is a productive and enjoyable way of doing science that speaks to our humanity and also increases our knowledge about nature. This academic cross-over book appeals to a broad audience of students, scientists or, supported by attractive illustrations, to anyone interested in the adventure or making of science, but not necessarily with a scientific background.
Book Synopsis Prodrome of a Monograph of the Tabanidae of the United States by : Carl Robert Osten-Sacken
Download or read book Prodrome of a Monograph of the Tabanidae of the United States written by Carl Robert Osten-Sacken and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Boston Medical and Surgical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anniversary Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History by : Boston Society of Natural History
Download or read book Anniversary Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History written by Boston Society of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
