The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander Von Humboldt and the Shaping of America, Walls Laura Dassow

Автор: Von Humboldt Alexander
Название: Views of Nature
ISBN: 0226923185 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226923185
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Описание: The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aime Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth century. This book features his influential work - and his personal favorite.

Автор: Jones Alexander
Название: A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, a Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World
ISBN: 019973934X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199739349
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The Antikythera Mechanism, now 82 small fragments of corroded bronze, was an ancient Greek machine simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it. Reflecting the most recent researches, A Portable Cosmos presents it as a gateway to Greek astronomy and technology and their place in Greco-Roman society and thought.

Автор: Von Humboldt Alexander
Название: Views of Nature
ISBN: 022642247X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226422473
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Описание: While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists. Humboldt's 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aim Bonpland not only set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth century, but also served as the raw material for his many volumes--works of both scientific rigor and aesthetic beauty that inspired such essayists and artists as Emerson, Goethe, Thoreau, Poe, and Frederic Edwin Church.

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. Written for both a literary and a scientific audience, Views of Nature was translated into English (twice), Spanish, and French in the nineteenth century, and it was read widely in Europe and the Americas. But in contrast to many of Humboldt's more technical works, Views of Nature has been unavailable in English for more than one hundred years. Largely neglected in the United States during the twentieth century, Humboldt's contributions to the humanities and the sciences are now undergoing a revival to which this new translation will be a critical contribution.

Автор: Humboldt
Название: Views of Nature
ISBN: 1108037356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108037358
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This is a selection of Alexander von Humboldt`s favourite essays on natural science. The remarkable breadth of coverage (including geology, geography and biology) is typical of the author, as is the precise and engaging style. This English translation of the third and final German edition (1849) was published in 1850.