The Passage to Cosmos : Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

by Laura Dassow Walls

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10 0226871827

ISBN-13 9780226871820

Publisher The University of Chicago Press

Imprint University of Chicago Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 1st, 2009

Print length 424 Pages

Weight 680 grams

Dimensions 2.40 x 1.60 x 0.30 cms

Product Classification: History of science Geographical discovery & exploration

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Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. This title traces Humboldt's ideas for "Cosmos" to his 1799 journey to the Americas, where he first experienced the diversity of nature and of the world's people.

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