![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And yet the man has been all but forgotten. In North America, Humboldt’s name still graces towns, counties, parks, bays, lakes, mountains, and a river. ![]() Among his most revolutionary ideas was a radical conception of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. Wulf’s pulsating account brings this dazzling figure back into a dazzling, much-deserved focus.” - The Boston GlobeĪlexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever changed the way we understand the natural world. From the acclaimed author of Magnificent Rebels.A biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world-and in the process created modern environmentalism. ![]()
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