Ebook {Epub PDF} Views of Nature by Alexander von Humboldt

 · The Legacy of the Man Who Changed Our View of Nature. The 19th-century German scientist Alexander von Humboldt popularized the concept that the natural world is interconnected. In a Yale e interview, biographer Andrea Wulf explains how Humboldt’s vision helped create modern environmentalism. By Diane Toomey • Decem. Views of Nature, or Ansichten der Natur, was Humboldt’s best-known and most influential work—and his personal favorite. While the essays that comprise it are themselves remarkable as innovative, early pieces of nature writing—they were cited by Thoreau as a model for his own work—the book’s extensive endnotes incorporate some of Humboldt’s most beautiful prose and mature thinking on vegetation Cited by: Views of nature; by Humboldt, Alexander von, ; Otté, E. C. (Elise C.) tr; Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), , tr. Publication date Topics Science, Physical geography, Plant morphology Publisher London, H. G. Bohn Collection americana User Interaction Count: K.

Views of nature, or, Contemplations on the sublime phenomena of creation: with scientific illustrations by Humboldt, Alexander von, ; Otté, E. C. (Elise C.); Bohn, Henry George, Publication date Topics Science, Natural history, Physical geography Publisher. Views of nature; by Humboldt, Alexander von, ; Otté, E. C. (Elise C.) tr; Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), , tr. Publication date Topics Science, Physical geography, Plant morphology Publisher London, H. G. Bohn Collection americana Digitizing sponsor Google Book from the collections of. Cosmic Views of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt. Posted in Inside our Collections, Plant Science on June 2, , by Stephen Sinon. Stephen Sinon is the William B. O'Connor Curator of Special Collections, Research and Archives, in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden.

Humboldt’s Vision of Nature. An artist’s imagining of young Humboldt at work in , by Friedrich Georg Weitsch (Wikipedia) Our ecological imagination—our sense of nature as a global, interconnected and sacred whole—has roots in many sources. A relatively unfamiliar one is the work of Alexander von Humboldt (), a manic, prolific explorer and naturalist of the German Romantic era. Views of Nature, or Ansichten der Natur, was Humboldt’s best-known and most influential work—and his personal favorite. While the essays that comprise it are themselves remarkable as innovative, early pieces of nature writing—they were cited by Thoreau as a model for his own work—the book’s extensive endnotes incorporate some of Humboldt’s most beautiful prose and mature thinking on vegetation structure, its origins in climate patterns, and its implications for the arts. Views of Nature. by. Alexander von Humboldt, Stephen T. Jackson (Editor), Laura Dassow Walls (Editor), Mark W. Person (Editor) · Rating details · 74 ratings · 8 reviews. While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (–) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists.