The invention of nature Alexander von Humboldt's new world
"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. Alexander von Humboldt (1769 -- 1859) was an intrepid explorer...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Departure: Emerging ideas. Beginnings
- Imagination and nature: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Humboldt
- In search of a destination.
- Part 2. Arrival: Collecting ideas. South America
- The Llanos and the Orinoco
- Across the Andes
- Chimborazo
- Politics and nature: Thomas Jefferson and Humboldt.
- Part 3. Return: Sorting ideas. Europe
- Berlin
- Paris
- Revolutions and nature: Simon Bolivar and Humboldt
- London
- Going in circles: Maladie Centrifuge
- Part 4. Influence: Spreading ideas. Return to Berlin
- Russia
- Evolution and nature: Charles Darwin and Humboldt
- Humbolt's Cosmos
- Poetry, science and nature: Henry David Thoreau and Humboldt
- Part 5. New worlds: Evolving ideas. The greatest man since the deluge
- Man and nature: George Perkins Marsh and Humboldt
- Art, ecology and nature: Ernst Haeckel and Humboldt
- Preservation and nature: John Muir and Humboldt.
