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The German naturalist and explorer chronicles his 1799 expedition to Central and South America in this classic work of natural history.
While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769â1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists. Humboldtâs 1799â1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist AimĂ© 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 volumesâworks 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 Humboldtâs best-known and most influential workâand his personal favorite. While the essays that comprise it are themselves remarkable as innovative, early pieces of nature writingâthey were cited by Thoreau as a model for his own workâthe bookâs extensive endnotes incorporate some of Humboldtâs 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 Humboldtâs 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, Humboldtâs contributions to the humanities and the sciences are now undergoing a revival to which this new translation will be a critical contribution.
Praise for Views of Nature
âAlexander von Humboldtâs wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Personâs stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present.â âDaniel Walker Howe, author of the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning What Hath God Wrought
âFrom the plains of Venezuela to volcanoes and waterfalls, von Humboldt combines observations with travel narratives and philosophical musings. Annotations really help provide a context to the essays; this work also includes an index, conversions for von Humboldtâs various measurement units, an introduction, and preface. This excellent translation of one of von Humboldtâs most important works should introduce this great naturalist to an entirely new audience.â âEdward J. Valauskas, curator of Rare Books, Library, Chicago Botanic Garden, Current Books on Gardening and Botany
© 2014 The University of Chicago Press (E-bog): 9780226923192
OversĂŠttere: Mark W. Person
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E-bog: 17. juli 2014
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