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Author : Jesús Tortoza Acevedo
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105555569
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Humboldt y Bonpland written by Jesús Tortoza Acevedo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 262 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vera M Kutzinski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317977505
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Alexander von Humboldt's Transatlantic Personae written by Vera M Kutzinski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Alexander von Humboldt? Was he really a lone genius? Was he another European apologist for colonialism in the Americas or the father of Latin American independence? Was he a roving Romanticist, or did his sensibilities belong to the Enlightenment? Naturalist, philosopher, historian, and proto-sociologist--to name just some of the fields to which he contributed--, Humboldt is impossible to contain in a single identity or definition. His voluminous writings range across so many different fields of knowledge that his scholarly-scientific personae multiplied even during his lifetime, and they have continued to proliferate since his death in 1859. A household word throughout the nineteenth century, Humboldt was eventually eclipsed by Charles Darwin (whose own travels had been motivated by Humboldt’s) and disappeared from view for much of the twentieth century, notably in the United States. The essays in this collection testify to the renewed interest that Alexander von Humboldt’s multi-faceted work is inspiring in the twenty-first century, especially among cultural and literary historians from both sides of the Atlantic. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.
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Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804 by Alexander Von Humboldt and Aime Bonpland Written in French by Alexander Von Humboldt written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Bell
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804774277
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book A Life in Shadow written by Stephen Bell and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked alongside Alexander von Humboldt as the latter carried out his celebrated research in northern South America, but he later returned to conduct his own research farther south. A Life in Shadow accounts for the entire span of Bonpland's remarkable and diverse career in South America—in Argentina, Paraguay (where he was imprisoned for nearly a decade), Uruguay, and southernmost Brazil—based on extensive archival material. The study reconnects Bonpland's divided records in Europe and South America and delves into his studies of rural resources in interior regions of South America, including experimental cultivation techniques. This is a fascinating account of a man—a doctor, farmer, rancher, scientific explorer, and political conspirator—who interacted in many revealing ways with the evolving societies and institutions of South America.
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 : Andrea Wulf
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1524747378
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Andrea Wulf and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five year expedition in South America. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, but his most revolutionary idea was a radical vision of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. His theories and ideas were profoundly influenced by a five-year exploration of South America. Now Andrea Wulf partners with artist Lillian Melcher to bring this daring expedition to life, complete with excerpts from Humboldt's own diaries, atlases, and publications. She gives us an intimate portrait of the man who predicted human-induced climate change, fashioned poetic narrative out of scientific observation, and influenced iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, and John Muir. This gorgeous account of the expedition not only shows how Humboldt honed his groundbreaking understanding of the natural world but also illuminates the man and his passions.
Author : Mark Thurner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000814505
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Humboldt written by Mark Thurner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths about Alexander von Humboldt and his world. Rather than ‘follow in Humboldt’s footsteps,’ this book outlines the new critical horizon of post-Humboldtian Humboldt studies: the archaeology of all that lies buried under the Baron’s epistemological footprint. Contrary to the popular image of Humboldt as a solitary ‘adventurer’ and ‘hero of science’ surrounded by New World nature, The Invention of Humboldt demonstrates that the Baron’s opus and practice was largely derivative of the knowledge communities and archives of the Hispanic world. Although Humboldtian writing has invented a powerful cult that has served to erase the sources of his knowledge and practice, in truth Humboldt did not ‘invent nature,’ nor did he pioneer global science: he was the beneficiary of Iberian natural science and globalization. Nor was Humboldt a pioneering, ‘postcolonial’ cultural relativist. Instead, his anthropological views of the Americas were Orientalist and historicist and, in most ways, were less enlightened than those of his Creole contemporaries. This book will reshape the landscape of Humboldt scholarship. It is essential reading for all those interested in Alexander von Humboldt, the Hispanic American enlightenment, and the global history of science and knowledge.
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804 written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander von Humboldt's account of his monumental scientific expedition to South America and Cuba. Originally published in French between 1814 and 1825, this is the first edition in English ... This classic of scientific exploration was based on the researches of Humboldt and his companion, Aimé Bonpland, during their five-year excursion in South and Central America from 1799 to 1804. The volumes describe the voyage from Spain and the stop in the Canaries; Tobago and the first steps in South America; explorations along the Orinoco; Colombia and the area around Caracas; explorations in the northern Andes; and a visit to Cuba. "Humboldt and Bonpland traveled widely through South and Central America, studying meteorological phenomena and exploring wild and uninhabited country. At Callao, Humboldt measured the temperatures of the ocean current which came to bear his name ..."--Hill.
Author : Georgia Riley De Havenon
Publisher : Kerber Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783866789395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Unity of Nature written by Georgia Riley De Havenon and published by Kerber Verlag. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alexander von Humboldt is known for his botanical expeditions that took place between 1799 to 1804, and for the multi-volume Voyage aux regions équinoxiales du nouveau continent he subsequently produced. The exhibition catalogue traces the breadth and import of Humboldt’s influence through paintings and varied artifacts from the nineteenth century to the present. Included are essays by notable scholars, as well as an interview with Mark Dion that touches upon the actuality of the enlightened European voyager in contemporary global art."--
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Travels and Researchs of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Travels and Researches of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 396 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
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Travels and Researches of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Kehlmann
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307496759
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Measuring the World written by Daniel Kehlmann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene. Young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann’s brilliant comic novel revolves around the meeting of two colossal geniuses of the Enlightenment. Late in the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the aristocratic naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, negotiates jungles, voyages down the Orinoco River, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to man, counts head lice, and explores and measures every cave and hill he comes across. The other, the reclusive and barely socialized mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, can prove that space is curved without leaving his home. Terrifyingly famous and wildly eccentric, these two polar opposites finally meet in Berlin in 1828, and are immediately embroiled in the turmoil of the post-Napolean world.
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:
