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A Longing for Wide and Unknown Things - The Life of Alexander von Humboldt (Hardcover)
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A Longing for Wide and Unknown Things - The Life of Alexander von Humboldt (Hardcover)
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Alexander von Humboldt was the most admired scientist of his day.
But the achievements for which he was most celebrated in his
lifetime always fell short of perfection. When he climbed the
Chimborazo, then believed to be the highest mountain in the world,
he did not quite reach the top; he established the existence of the
Casiquiare canal, between the great water systems of the Orinoco
and the Amazon, but this had been well known to local people; and
his magisterial work, Cosmos, was left unfinished. This was no
coincidence. Humboldt's pursuit of an all-encompassing, immersive
approach to science was a way of finding limits: of nature and of
the scientist's own self. A Longing for Wide and Unknown Things
portrays a scientific life lived in the era of German Romanticism
-- a time of radical change, where the focus on the individual
placed a new value on feeling, and the pursuit of personal desires.
As Humboldt himself admitted, he 'would have sailed to the remotest
South Seas, even if it hadn't fulfilled any scientific purpose
whatever'.
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