Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors’ Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Styling Science
- 2 Dispute and Dissociation: John Black’s Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain (1811)
- 3 ‘A Colossal Literary and Scientific Task’: Helen Maria Williams and the Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent (1814–1829)
- 4 ‘A Plain and Unassuming Style’: Thomasina Ross and Humboldt’s Travels (1852–1853)
- 5 The Poetry of Geography: The Ansichten der Natur in English Translation
- 6 Cosmos: The Universe Translated
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors’ Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Styling Science
- 2 Dispute and Dissociation: John Black’s Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain (1811)
- 3 ‘A Colossal Literary and Scientific Task’: Helen Maria Williams and the Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent (1814–1829)
- 4 ‘A Plain and Unassuming Style’: Thomasina Ross and Humboldt’s Travels (1852–1853)
- 5 The Poetry of Geography: The Ansichten der Natur in English Translation
- 6 Cosmos: The Universe Translated
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Nature TranslatedAlexander von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain, pp. i - ivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2018