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1 online resource |
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Cover -- ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT -- Title -- Copyright -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: CULTURAL IMPACT -- 1 Indiana Reads Alexander von Humboldt -- 2 Alexander von Humboldt: Between Enlightenment Vitalism and Romantic Naturphilosophie -- 3 Alexander von Humboldt and Peter Schlemihl: The Image of the Scientific Explorer in Early Nineteenth-Century German Literature -- 4 The Meeting of Two Alexanders: Causes and Consequences of Humboldt's and Pushkin's Mutual Admiration -- PART II: ON NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT -- 5 Alexander von Humboldt's Environmental Holism |
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6 Alexander von Humboldt's Lonely Parrot in Views of Nature -- 7 Re-Rivering New Spain: Transatlantic Politics of Knowledge and Water in Alexander von Humboldt -- PART III: HUMBOLDT FROM ART TO SCIENCE AND SCIENCE AS ART -- 8 Beseelte Natur: Alexander von Humboldt and Data-Driven Paradigm Segues -- 9 Alexander von Humboldt beyond Planet Earth: Exploring the Infinite and Unreachable in Kosmos -- 10 Art and Aesthetics in Alexander von Humboldt: The Subterranean Tree and Other Images -- Biographies of Contributors -- Index |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 25, 2023) |
| Subject |
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859. fast (OCoLC)fst00054219 |
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Science -- History -- 18th century
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Science.
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Electronic books
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History.
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Electronic book
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Allert, Beate, 1954- editor.
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Clason, Christopher R., editor.
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Peach, Niall A., editor
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Quintana Vallejo, Ricardo, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781612498317 |
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1612498310 |
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