عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
Q143.H9 D388 2009eb
Q143
.
H9
D388
2009eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0226871843
(Number (ISBN
9780226871844
Erroneous ISBN
0226871827
Erroneous ISBN
9780226871820
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b758258
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The passage to Cosmos :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America /
First Statement of Responsibility
Laura Dassow Walls.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xv, 404 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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'
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
MIL
Stock Number
242250
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Passage to Cosmos.
International Standard Book Number
9780226871820
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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.
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
University of South Alabama
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Kosmos (Humboldt, Alexander von)
Kosmos.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, Intellectual life, 19th century.
Amerika
United States.
USA.
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7
7
7
(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
BIO-- 015000
NAT-- 024000
NAT-- 027000
TRV-- 026020
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
508
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092
B
Number
B
Edition
22
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
Q143
.
H9
Book number
D388
2009eb
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
15
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85
Class number
15
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88
Class number
30
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01
Class number
7
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26
Class number
AK
16700
System Code
bcl
System Code
bcl
System Code
bcl
System Code
ssgn
System Code
rvk
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Walls, Laura Dassow.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201204181820.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
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ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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