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题名/责任者:

The invention of nature : Alexander von Humboldt's new world / Andrea Wulf.

版本说明:

First American edition.

出版发行项:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

ISBN:

9780385350662 (hbk.) :

载体形态项:

xix, 473 p., 8 p. of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles, maps (some color) ; 25 cm.

变异题名:

Invention of nature.

变异题名:

Alexander von Humboldt's new world.

个人责任者:

Wulf, Andrea, author.

个人名称主题:

Humboldt, Alexander von,-1769-1859.

论题主题:

Scientists-Germany-Biography.

论题主题:

Naturalists-Germany-Biography.

论题主题:

Biographies.

中图法分类号:

K835.16

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

内容附注:

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.

摘要附注:

A portrait of the German naturalist reveals his ongoing influence on humanity's relationship with the natural world today, discussing such topics as his views on climate change, conservation, and nature as a resource for all life.

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