Views of Nature - Or Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation

Klappentext This 1850 English translation presents engaging popular essays on geography and science, originally published 1808, in their third, 1849, edition. Zusammenfassung This is a selection of Alexander von Humboldt's favourite essays on natural science. The remarkable breadth of coverage (including geology! geography and biology) is typical of the author! as is the precise and engaging style. This English translation of the third and final German edition (1849) was published in 1850. Inhaltsverzeichnis Publisher's preface; Author's preface to the first edition; Author's preface to the second and third editions; Summary of contents; Steppes and deserts; Cataracts of the Orinoco; Nocturnal life of animals in the primeval forest; Ideas for a physiognomy of plants; On the structure and mode of action of volcanos in different parts of the Earth; Vital force, or the Rhodian genius; The plateau of Caxamarca, the ancient capital of the Inca Atahuallpa, and first view of the Pacific from the ridge of the Andes; Index.

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• Authors: Alexander von Humboldt, Alexander von Humboldt
• Assisted by: Henry George Bohn (Translation), Elise C. Ott (Translation), Elise C. Otte (Translation), Elise C. Otté (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.12.2011
• EAN: 9781108037358
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03735-8
• No. of pages: 490
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); NATURE / General, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, natural history, History of Science, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Biogeography