The passage to Cosmos : Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America /

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 his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a single whole. In it,...

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Main Author: Walls, Laura Dassow
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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USA

Siena College

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RPI

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USMA West Point

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