The invention of nature : Alexander von Humboldt's new world

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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wulf, Andrea (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Subjects:
Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859.
Scientists > Germany > Biography.
Naturalists > Germany > Biography.
Holy Cross Note:Copy 2 is eighteenth printing (August 2016).
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Departure : emerging ideas. Beginnings ; Imagination and nature : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Humboldt ; In search of a destination
  • Part II. Arrival : collecting ideas. South America ; The llanos and the Orinoco ; Across the Andes ; Chimborazo ; Politics and nature : Thomas Jefferson and Humboldt
  • Part III. Return : sorting Ideas. Europe ; Berlin ; Paris ; Revolutions and nature : Simón Bolívar and Humboldt ; London ; Going in circles : maladie centrifuge
  • Part IV. Influence : spreading ideas. Return to Berlin ; Russia ; Evolution and nature : Charles Darwin and Humboldt ; Humboldt's Cosmos ; Poetry, science and nature : Henry David Thoreau and Humboldt
  • Part V. 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.

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