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0226871843
9780226871844
0226871827
9780226871820
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The passage to Cosmos :
[Book]
Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America /
Laura Dassow Walls.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
1 online resource (xv, 404 pages) :
illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: Humboldt's bridge -- Confluences -- Passage to America, 1799-1804 -- Manifest destinies -- Interchapter: Finally shall come the poet -- "All are alike designed for freedom": Humboldt on race and slavery -- The community of Cosmos -- The face of planet America -- Epilogue: recalling Cosmos.
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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. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a single whole. In it, Humboldt espoused the idea that, while the universe of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty and order, the very idea of the whole it composes, are human achievements: cosmos comes into being in the dance of world and mind, subject and object, science and poetry. Humboldt'
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Passage to Cosmos.
9780226871820
Humboldt, Alexander von,1769-1859-- Influence-- United States.
Humboldt, Alexander von,1769-1859-- Political and social views.
Humboldt, Alexander von,1769-1859., Kosmos.
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
Humboldt, Alexander von,1769-1859.
Humboldt, Alexander{von.
University of South Alabama
Kosmos (Humboldt, Alexander von)
Kosmos.
Science-- History-- 19th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Science & Technology.
Entstehung
Forschungsreise
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life.
Intellektuella-- Förenta staterna-- 1800-talet.
NATURE-- Essays.
NATURE-- Reference.
Political and social views.
Rezeption
Science.
TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Ecotourism.
Vetenskap-- historia-- Förenta staterna-- 1800-talet.
United States, Intellectual life, 19th century.
Amerika
United States.
USA.
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