Abstract: 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'.
Titel / Autor: The invention of nature : the adventures of Alexander von Humbold, the lost hero of science / Andrea Wulf
Veröffentlichung: London : Penguin, 2016
Physische Beschreibung: 473 S. : Ill. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781848549005
Datum:2016
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Zitate
APA:Wulf, A..(2016). The *invention of nature the adventures of Alexander von Humbold, the lost hero of science Penguin.
MLA:Wulf, Andrea, . The *invention of nature the adventures of Alexander von Humbold, the lost hero of science London : Penguin.2016.
Chicago:Wulf, Andrea, . (2016). The *invention of nature the adventures of Alexander von Humbold, the lost hero of science London : Penguin.
Harvard:Wulf, A..(2016). The *invention of nature the adventures of Alexander von Humbold, the lost hero of science London : Penguin.
