The invention of nature : the adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science
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BIOGRAPHY: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story: Humboldt explored deep into the rainforest, climbed the world's highest volcanoes and inspired princes and presidents, scientists and poets alike. Napoleon was jealous of him; Simon Bolivar's revolution was fuelled by his ideas; Darwin set sail on the Beagle because of Humboldt; and Jules Verne's Captain Nemo owned all his many books. He simply was, as one contemporary put it, 'the greatest man since the Deluge'.
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The invention of nature : the adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science, Andrea Wulf
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Andrea Wulf
- Verlag
- John Murray
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
- Einband
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 1848548982
- ISBN13
- 9781848548985
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Geschichte, Wissenschaft & Mathematik, Natur, Wissenschaft, Ökologische Thematik, Ökologie, Naturbeobachtung, Biografien von Frauen
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- BIOGRAPHY: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story: Humboldt explored deep into the rainforest, climbed the world's highest volcanoes and inspired princes and presidents, scientists and poets alike. Napoleon was jealous of him; Simon Bolivar's revolution was fuelled by his ideas; Darwin set sail on the Beagle because of Humboldt; and Jules Verne's Captain Nemo owned all his many books. He simply was, as one contemporary put it, 'the greatest man since the Deluge'.