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The Literary Ambitions And Achievements Of Alexander Von Humboldt
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Author :Robert Van Dusen Publisher :Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers ISBN 13 :9783261000514 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (5 download)
Book Synopsis The Literary Ambitions and Achievements of Alexander Von Humboldt by : Robert Van Dusen
Download or read book The Literary Ambitions and Achievements of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Robert Van Dusen and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the centennial commemorating the death of Alexander von Humboldt will be observed in 1959, it is appropriate that his literary achievements, heretofore scarcely studied, should now be critically examined and interpreted. The author undertakes to analyze his writings for their literary value and the particular intellectual milieu in which they were written.
Book Synopsis The literary ambitions and achievements of Alexander von Humboldt by : Robert LaBranche Van Dusen
Download or read book The literary ambitions and achievements of Alexander von Humboldt written by Robert LaBranche Van Dusen and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis THE LITERARY AMBITIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. BY ROBERT VAN DUSEN. by : ROBERT DUSEN
Download or read book THE LITERARY AMBITIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. BY ROBERT VAN DUSEN. written by ROBERT DUSEN and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Literary Ambitions and Achievements of Alexander Von Humboldt by : Robert Van Dusen
Download or read book The Literary Ambitions and Achievements of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Robert Van Dusen and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Humboldt Current by : Aaron Sachs
Download or read book The Humboldt Current written by Aaron Sachs and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornell University history and American studies professor Aaron Sachs offers a masterly intellectual history of the impact of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American culture and science.
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 Alexander von Humboldt by : F. A. Schwarzenberg
Download or read book Alexander von Humboldt written by F. A. Schwarzenberg and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Book Synopsis The Invention of Nature by : Andrea Wulf
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.
Book Synopsis A Longing for Wide and Unknown Things by : Maren Meinhardt
Download or read book A Longing for Wide and Unknown Things written by Maren Meinhardt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'.
Book Synopsis The Life, Travels and Books of Alexander Von Humboldt by : Richard Henry Stoddard
Download or read book The Life, Travels and Books of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Richard Henry Stoddard and published by New York : Rudd & Carleton. This book was released on 1809 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He [Humboldt] has always been thought of ashomosexual, with the first rumors having begun with the suspicion that he and Bonpland were lovers" Greif, "Book of Days", p. 161.
Book Synopsis Die Wende Von Der Aufklärung Zur Romantik 1760-1820 by : Horst Albert Glaser
Download or read book Die Wende Von Der Aufklärung Zur Romantik 1760-1820 written by Horst Albert Glaser and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the twelfth to date in a series of works in French or English presenting the epochs and movements of a Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (Histoire Comparée des Littératures de Langues Européennes). The original intention of the editors was to publish a four-volume history of European literature from 1760-1820, and the first of these volumes, Des Lumières au Romantisme. Genres en Vers, appeared as long ago as 1982. The volumes Genres en Prose and Théâtre are still awaited. In their absence the present volume, Epoche im _berblick, attempts a more comprehensive and rigorous treatment of the period and its historiographical problems than was initially planned, providing the reader with an overview of sixty eventful years of European literary history years in which German Classicism coincided with the birth, initially in Germany and England, of Romanticism. And at the centre of this turbulent period of European intellectual and literary history stands the French Revolution.
Book Synopsis Alexander Von Humboldt by : Nicolaas A. Rupke
Download or read book Alexander Von Humboldt written by Nicolaas A. Rupke and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander von Humboldt is one of the most celebrated figures of late-modern science, famous for his work in physical geography, botanical geography and climatology. This volume traces Humboldt's biographical identities through Germany's collective past to shed light on the historical instability of our scientific heroes.
Book Synopsis The Life and Travels of Alexander Von Humboldt by : Richard Henry Stoddard
Download or read book The Life and Travels of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Richard Henry Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Seeing New Worlds by : Laura Dassow Walls
Download or read book Seeing New Worlds written by Laura Dassow Walls and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoreau was a poet, a naturalist, a major American writer. Was he also a scientist? He was, Laura Dassow Walls suggests. Her book, the first to consider Thoreau as a serious and committed scientist, will change the way we understand his accomplishment and the place of science in American culture. Walls reveals that the scientific texts of Thoreau’s day deeply influenced his best work, from Walden to the Journal to the late natural history essays. Here we see how, just when literature and science were splitting into the “two cultures” we know now, Thoreau attempted to heal the growing rift. Walls shows how his commitment to Alexander von Humboldt’s scientific approach resulted in not only his “marriage” of poetry and science but also his distinctively patterned nature studies. In the first critical study of his “The Dispersion of Seeds” since its publication in 1993, she exposes evidence that Thoreau was using Darwinian modes of reasoning years before the appearance of Origin of Species. This book offers a powerful argument against the critical tradition that opposes a dry, mechanistic science to a warm, “organic” Romanticism. Instead, Thoreau’s experience reveals the complex interaction between Romanticism and the dynamic, law-seeking science of its day. Drawing on recent work in the theory and philosophy of science as well as literary history and theory, Seeing New Worlds bridges today’s “two cultures” in hopes of stimulating a fuller consideration of representations of nature.
Book Synopsis Green Universe by : Edward F Dolan, Jr.
Download or read book Green Universe written by Edward F Dolan, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story Of Alexander Von Humboldt, Scientist, Explorer, Author, Humanitarian.
Book Synopsis Life of Alexander Von Humboldt by : Julius Löwenberg
Download or read book Life of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Julius Löwenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in English translation in 1873, this is a detailed biography of the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt.
Book Synopsis The Island of Cuba by : Alexander von Humboldt
Download or read book The Island of Cuba written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
