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The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
The Passage to Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
Author: Laura Dassow Walls
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, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226871837
ISBN-10: 0226871835
Publication Date: 11/15/2011
Pages: 424
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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