2015年11月7日 星期六

Alexander von Humboldt 1769~1859


Alexander von Humboldt had an insatiable curiosity for the natural world, a "perpetual drive" for knowledge that felt as if he was being chased by "10,000 pigs". Andrea Wulf's new book argues that he was the greatest scientist of the 19th century
Why a Prussian scientific visionary should be studied afresh
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“I have always admired him," said Charles Darwin, "now I worship him.” Alexander von Humboldt, who pioneered the science now used to study climate change, was born on September 14th 1769. From the archive: http://econ.st/1KakPQ4



AMID this year's flurry of scientific jubilees, one seems to have passed largely unnoticed. On May 6th admirers celebrated the 150th anniversary of the death of...
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Naturalist and geographer Alexander von Humboldt was born‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1769. Here's a drawing of him from the collectionhttp://ow.ly/B3LJV

Naturalist and geographer Alexander von Humboldt was born #onthisday in 1769. Here's a drawing of him from the collection http://ow.ly/B3LJV
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (About this sound listen ; September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was a Prussian geographernaturalist, and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt(1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography.
Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time from a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. He was one of the first to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular). Later, his five-volume work, Kosmos(1845), attempted to unify the various branches of scientific knowledge. Humboldt supported and worked with other scientists, including Joseph-Louis Gay-LussacJustus von LiebigLouis AgassizMatthew Fontaine MauryGeorg von Neumayer, and most notably, Aimé Bonpland, with whom he conducted much of his scientific exploration.


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