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Views of Nature (Paperback)
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While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1859) looms
large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the
field notebooks of naturalists. Von Humboldt's 1799 1804 research
expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aime Bonpland
not only set the course for the great scientific surveys of the
nineteenth century, but also served as the raw material for his
many volumes works of both scientific rigor and aesthetic beauty
that inspired such essayists and artists as Emerson, Goethe,
Thoreau, Poe, and Frederic Edwin Church. Views of Nature, or
Ansichten der Natur, was von Humboldt's best-known and most
influential work and his personal favorite. While the essays that
comprise it are themselves remarkable as innovative, early pieces
of nature writing they were cited by Thoreau as a model for his own
work the book's extensive endnotes incorporate some of von
Humboldt's most beautiful prose and mature thinking on vegetation
structure, its origins in climate patterns, and its implications
for the arts. Written for both a literary and a scientific
audience, Views of Nature was translated into English (twice),
Spanish, and French in the nineteenth century, and it was read
widely in Europe and the Americas. But in contrast to many of von
Humboldt's more technical works, Views of Nature has been
unavailable in English for more than one hundred years. Largely
neglected in the United States during the twentieth century, von
Humboldt's contributions to the humanities and the sciences are now
undergoing a revival to which this new translation will be a
critical contribution.
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