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Author : Douglas Botting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Humboldt and the Cosmos written by Douglas Botting and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Dassow Walls
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226871835
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
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.
Author : Gerard Helferich
Publisher : Tantor eBooks
ISBN 13 : 1618030108
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Humboldt's Cosmos written by Gerard Helferich and published by Tantor eBooks. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1799 to 1804, German naturalist and adventurer Alexander von Humboldt conducted the first extensive scientific exploration of Latin America. At the completion of his arduous 6,000-mile journey, he was feted by Thomas Jefferson, presented to Napoleon and, after the publication of his findings, hailed as the greatest scientific genius of his age. Humboldt’s Cosmos tells the story of this extraordinary man who was equal parts Einstein and Livingstone, and of the adventure that defined his life. Gerard Helferich vividly recounts Humboldt’s expedition through the Amazon, over the Andes, and across Mexico and Cuba, highlighting his paradigm-changing discoveries along the way. During the course of the expedition, Humboldt cataloged more than 60,000 plants, set an altitude record climbing the volcano Chimborazo, and introduced millions of Europeans and Americans to the great cultures of the Inca and the Aztecs. In the process, he also revolutionized geology and laid the groundwork for modern sciences such as climatology, oceanography, and geography. His contributions would profoundly influence future greats such as Charles Darwin and shape the course of science for centuries to come. Humboldt’s Cosmos is a dramatic tribute to one of history’s most audacious adventurers, who, as Stephen Jay Gould noted, "may well have been the world’s most famous and influential intellectual."
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Cosmos written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cosmos written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleanor Jones Harvey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691200807
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States written by Eleanor Jones Harvey and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politics Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was one of the most influential scientists and thinkers of his age. A Prussian-born geographer, naturalist, explorer, and illustrator, he was a prolific writer whose books graced the shelves of American artists, scientists, philosophers, and politicians. Humboldt visited the United States for six weeks in 1804, engaging in a lively exchange of ideas with such figures as Thomas Jefferson and the painter Charles Willson Peale. It was perhaps the most consequential visit by a European traveler in the young nation's history, one that helped to shape an emerging American identity grounded in the natural world. In this beautifully illustrated book, Eleanor Jones Harvey examines how Humboldt left a lasting impression on American visual arts, sciences, literature, and politics. She shows how he inspired a network of like-minded individuals who would go on to embrace the spirit of exploration, decry slavery, advocate for the welfare of Native Americans, and extol America's wilderness as a signature component of the nation's sense of self. Harvey traces how Humboldt's ideas influenced the transcendentalists and the landscape painters of the Hudson River School, and laid the foundations for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sierra Club, and the National Park Service. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States looks at paintings, sculptures, maps, and artifacts, and features works by leading American artists such as Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Frederic Church, and Samuel F. B. Morse. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC September 18, 2020–January 3, 2021
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cosmos written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752308028
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Cosmos written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Cosmos by Alexander von Humboldt
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cosmos written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrea Wulf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345806298
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Nature written by Andrea Wulf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
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Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cosmos written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226360687
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Essay on the Geography of Plants written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799–1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aimé Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth century, and inspired such essayists and artists as Emerson, Goethe, Thoreau, Poe, and Church. The chronicles of the expedition were published in Paris after Humboldt’s return, and first among them was the 1807 “Essay on the Geography of Plants.” Among the most cited writings in natural history, after the works of Darwin and Wallace, this work appears here for the first time in a complete English-language translation. Covering far more than its title implies, it represents the first articulation of an integrative “science of the earth, ” encompassing most of today’s environmental sciences. Ecologist Stephen T. Jackson introduces the treatise and explains its enduring significance two centuries after its publication.
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108013635
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Cosmos written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the relationship between the 'general and the special' in nature, Humboldt's Cosmos constitutes an original contribution to modern science.
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Views of Nature written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
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Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cosmos v.5, 1884 written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aaron Sachs
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101201614
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
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.
Author : Sandra Rebok
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813935709
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Humboldt and Jefferson written by Sandra Rebok and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humboldt and Jefferson explores the relationship between two fascinating personalities: the Prussian explorer, scientist, and geographer Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) and the American statesman, architect, and naturalist Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). In the wake of his famous expedition through the Spanish colonies in the spring of 1804, Humboldt visited the United States, where he met several times with then-president Jefferson. A warm and fruitful friendship resulted, and the two men corresponded a good deal over the years, speculating together on topics of mutual interest, including natural history, geography, and the formation of an international scientific network. Living in revolutionary societies, both were deeply concerned with the human condition, and each vested hope in the new American nation as a possible answer to many of the deficiencies characterizing European societies at the time. The intellectual exchange between the two over the next twenty-one years touched on the pivotal events of those times, such as the independence movement in Latin America and the applicability of the democratic model to that region, the relationship between America and Europe, and the latest developments in scientific research and various technological projects. Humboldt and Jefferson explores the world in which these two Enlightenment figures lived and the ways their lives on opposite sides of the Atlantic defined their respective convictions.
