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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2013
Print publication year:
2012
First published in:
1828
Online ISBN:
9781139381383
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139381383
Subjects:
History of Science, Geography, Historical Geography, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest, General Science
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived' according to Darwin, made groundbreaking contributions to the fields of geography, oceanography, climatology and ecology. In 1804, he returned from a five-year exploration of Latin America with an incredible wealth of specimens and data which provided the foundations for his theories on the natural order. He expounds them in this book, which was printed in German in 1808 before being translated by the geographer Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès (1767–1846) and published in French in 1828. Humboldt does more than provide descriptions of the great features and phenomena of the Earth, ranging from the geological character of immense plains and steppes to the structure and action of volcanoes. He combines a rigorous scientific approach with his emotional and aesthetic responses to the natural world, thereby constructing a true 'philosophy of nature'.

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