Polymath Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1859), a self-described
'scientific traveller', was one of the most respected scientists of
his time. Humboldt's wanderlust led him across Europe and to South
America, Mexico, the U.S. and Russia, and his voyages and
observations resulted in the discovery of many species previously
unknown to Europeans. Originating as lectures delivered in Berlin
and Paris (1827 1828), his two-volume Cosmos: Sketch of a Physical
Description of the Universe (1845 1860) represented the culmination
of his lifelong interest in understanding the physical world. As
Humboldt writes, 'I ever desired to discern physical phenomena in
their widest mutual connection, and to comprehend Nature as a
whole, animated and moved by inward forces'. Volume 2 (1848)
reviews poetic descriptions of nature as well as landscape painting
from antiquity through to modernity, before using the same
time-span to examine a 'History of the Physical Contemplation of
the Universe'.
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