The Correspondence Between Albrecht Von Haller And Horace Benedict De Saussure

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The Correspondence Between Albrecht Von Haller and Horace-Bénédict de Saussure

Author : Albrecht von Haller
Publisher : Hogrefe & Huber Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
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Download or read book The Correspondence Between Albrecht Von Haller and Horace-Bénédict de Saussure written by Albrecht von Haller and published by Hogrefe & Huber Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents Haller's relations with Bonnet's nephew Horace-Benedict de Saussure. Spanning the years 1760-77, it brings out the fascination with the Alps that formed a bond between the celebrated Bernese physician and polymath and the much younger Saussure, who later gained renown for his "Voyages dans les Alpes". Along with glimpses of Haller's personal and family life, the letters afford illustrations of his remarkable learning and productivity. They also contain some revealing passages about contemporary society, and regular assessments of Voltaire, Rousseau, Linnaeus, Buffon, and other luminaries. The correspondence is most valuable, perhaps for the light it sheds on the relatively little studied life and thought of Saussure. The texts of the letters are in French; the notes and the introduction are in English.

Peak Pursuits

Author : Caroline Schaumann
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030025282X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Peak Pursuits written by Caroline Schaumann and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary cultural history of exploration and mountaineering in the nineteenth century European forays to mountain summits began in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with the search for plants and minerals and the study of geology and glaciers. Yet scientists were soon captivated by the enterprise of climbing itself, enthralled with the views and the prospect of “conquering” alpine summits. Inspired by Romantic notions of nature, early mountaineers idealized their endeavors as sublime experiences, all the while deliberately measuring what they saw. As increased leisure time and advances in infrastructure and equipment opened up once formidable mountain regions to those seeking adventure and sport, new models of masculinity emerged that were fraught with tensions. This book examines how written and artistic depictions of nineteenth-century exploration and mountaineering in the Andes, the Alps, and the Sierra Nevada shaped cultural understandings of nature and wilderness in the Anthropocene.

The Life of Horace Benedict de Saussure

Author : Douglas William Freshfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Current Catalog

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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The correspondence between Albrecht von Haller and Charles Bonnet

Author : Albrecht von Haller
Publisher : Hogrefe & Huber Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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The Moral Authority of Nature

Author : Lorraine Daston
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226136806
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Authority of Nature written by Lorraine Daston and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify. The Moral Authority of Nature offers a wide-ranging account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful, just, or valuable. The eighteen essays cover a diverse array of topics, including the connection of cosmic and human orders in ancient Greece, medieval notions of sexual disorder, early modern contexts for categorizing individuals and judging acts as "against nature," race and the origin of humans, ecological economics, and radical feminism. The essays also range widely in time and place, from archaic Greece to early twentieth-century China, medieval Europe to contemporary America. Scholars from a wide variety of fields will welcome The Moral Authority of Nature, which provides the first sustained historical survey of its topic. Contributors: Danielle Allen, Joan Cadden, Lorraine Daston, Fa-ti Fan, Eckhardt Fuchs, Valentin Groebner, Abigail J. Lustig, Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy, Katharine Park, Matt Price, Robert N. Proctor, Helmut Puff, Robert J. Richards, Londa Schiebinger, Laura Slatkin, Julia Adeney Thomas, Fernando Vidal

Road to Egdon Heath

Author : Richard W. Bevis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773518001
Total Pages : 442 pages
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The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists: Abbe to Leavitt

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
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The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Curé

Author : R.L. Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401154902
Total Pages : 491 pages
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The Copepodologist's Cabinet

Author : David M. Damkaer
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692405
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Daniel Solander

Author : Daniel Charles Solander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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A History of Switzerland

Author : James Murray Luck
Publisher : Society for the Promotion of Science & Scholarship, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A History of Switzerland written by James Murray Luck and published by Society for the Promotion of Science & Scholarship, Incorporated. This book was released on 1985 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British Mountaineering, 1850-1914

Author : Peter Holger Hansen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
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Switzerland U.S.A.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Switzerland U.S.A. written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Books in Print

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2132 pages
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Subject Guide to Books in Print

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2476 pages
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Download or read book Subject Guide to Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 2476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Reader in Edo Period Travel

Author : Herbert E. Plutschow
Publisher : Global Oriental
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
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Download or read book A Reader in Edo Period Travel written by Herbert E. Plutschow and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely ignored hitherto by Western scholars, Plutschow's Edo Period Travel provides the first in-depth study of the subject which is centred on fifteen of the period's most notable travellers. This important research on how the Japanese discovered their own country and cultural identity has considerable interdisciplinary appeal.