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THE PASSAGE TO COSMOS
THE PASSAGE TO COSMOS
Subtitle:
Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
Book Category:
Biography & Autobiography > General
Author:
Walls, Laura Dassow
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780226871820?
Price:
USD 35.00
Publication Year:
2009

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Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a single whole.

 

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