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Cosmos Humboldt Alexander von Paperback Polymath Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), a self-described 'scientific traveller', was one of the most respected scientists of his time. and Russia, and his…
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Cosmos Humboldt Alexander von Paperback
Polymath Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), a self-described 'scientific traveller', was one of the most respected scientists of his time. and Russia, and his voyages and observations resulted in the discovery of many species previously unknown to Europeans. Humboldt's wanderlust led him across Europe and to South America, Mexico, the U.S.
As Humboldt writes, 'I ever desired to discern physical phenomena in their widest mutual connection, and to comprehend Nature as a whole, animated and moved by inward forces'. Originating as lectures delivered in Berlin and Paris (1827-1828), his two-volume Cosmos: Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe (1845-1860) represented the culmination of his lifelong interest in understanding the physical world. Volume 2 (1848) reviews poetic descriptions of nature as well as landscape painting from antiquity through to modernity, before using the
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Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt