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Journal articles on the topic "1769-1859"

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Moser, Christian. "Éditorial : Alexander von Humboldt, précurseur et visionnaire (1769 – 1859)." Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie 159, no. 1 (2019): 4–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/globe.2019.7740.

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Norder, Sietze J. "Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859): Connecting geodiversity, biodiversity and society." Journal of Biogeography 46, no. 8 (2019): 1627–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13500.

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ConCiencia, Revista. "La Obsesión por el Cosmos: Alexander Von Humboldt (1769-1859)." ConCiencia, no. 6 (February 26, 2005): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.14409/cc.v1i6.2047.

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Berland, A. J., S. E. Metcalfe, and G. H. Endfield. "Documentary-derived chronologies of rainfall variability in Antigua, Lesser Antilles, 1770–1890." Climate of the Past Discussions 9, no. 2 (2013): 1535–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cpd-9-1535-2013.

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Abstract. This paper presents the first extensive reconstruction of precipitation variability in the Lesser Antilles using historical documentary sources. Over 13 250 items of documentation pertaining to Antigua from the period 1769–1890 were consulted, including missionary, plantation and governmental papers as well as contemporary scholarly publications. Based on the predominant meteorological conditions observed throughout the island, each "rain-year" (December–November) was assigned one of five classifications (very wet, wet, "normal", dry and very dry). Local weather references relating t
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Berland, A. J., S. E. Metcalfe, and G. H. Endfield. "Documentary-derived chronologies of rainfall variability in Antigua, Lesser Antilles, 1770–1890." Climate of the Past 9, no. 3 (2013): 1331–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-1331-2013.

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Abstract. This paper presents the first extensive reconstruction of precipitation variability in the Lesser Antilles using historical documentary sources. Over 13 250 items of documentation pertaining to Antigua from the period 1769–1890 were consulted, including missionary, plantation and governmental papers as well as contemporary scholarly publications. Based on the predominant meteorological conditions observed throughout the island, each "rain-year" (December–November) was assigned one of five classifications (very wet, wet, "normal", dry and very dry). Local weather references relating t
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West, John B. "Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859): early high-altitude explorer and renowned plant naturalist." American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology 320, no. 4 (2021): L583—L589. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajplung.00404.2020.

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Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was one of the most distinguished German scientists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His fame came chiefly from his extensive explorations in South America and his eminence as a plant naturalist. He attempted to climb the inactive volcano Chimborazo in Ecuador, which was thought to be the highest mountain in the world at the time, and he reached an altitude of about 5,543 m, which was a record height for humans. During the climb, he had typical symptoms of acute mountain sickness, which he correctly attributed to the low level of oxygen, and he was
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Lubrich, Oliver. "Dossier: Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859).: Zum 150. Todestag des Naturforschers und Reiseschriftstellers." Zeitschrift für Germanistik 19, no. 2 (2009): 396–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/92125_396.

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BUTTIMER, ANNE. "RENAISSANCE AND RE-MEMBERING GEOGRAPHY: PIONEERING IDEAS OF ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT 1769–1859." South African Geographical Journal 85, no. 2 (2003): 125–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2003.9713792.

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Verges, João Vitor Gobis, and Fabrício Pedroso Bauab. "A TRANDISCIPLINARIDADE DA CIÊNCIA DE ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT (1769-1859): INTERSECÇÕES JUNTO AOS DEBATES CONTEMPORÂNEOS SOBRE O CONHECIMENTO." Boletim de Geografia 33, no. 3 (2016): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4025/bolgeogr.v33i3.21475.

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A partir das bases da epistemologia em Geografia, busca-se com este artigo vincular as construções científicas de Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) aos debates contemporâneos sobre o conhecimento transdisciplinar. Neste sentido, propõe-se entender que as formulações humboldtianas, conectando espírito humano e empiria, fundamentam-se enquanto bases profícuas e como exemplo concreto de uma ciência superadora da fragmentação disciplinar. Para isso, a partir da revisão bibliográfica, expõe-se a construção da diferenciação da realidade em qualidades primárias e secundárias nos interstícios do adve
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LUBRICH, OLIVER. "Die Entdeckung des Entdeckers. : Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) zum 250. Geburtstag.Bestandsaufnahme und Aussichten." Zeitschrift für Germanistik 29, no. 2 (2019): 375–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/92165_375.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "1769-1859"

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Castrillón, Alberto. "Alexandre de Humboldt et la géographie des plantes : le développement d'un nouveau concept du milieu." Paris, EHESS, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995EHES0308.

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L'emergence de la geographie des plantes en tant que science tient compte a la fois d'une conception esthetique qui rend possible une vision de la nature en tableaux differencies, et d'une conception de la science qui vise a mettre en rapport les sciences naturelles afin de comprendre la distribution geographique des vegetaux. Une nouvelle approche de la nature apparait au debut du xix siecle quand humboldt redefinit la relation sujet-objet, non comme une opposition mais comme une position du sujet dont la competence scientifique est associee a une comprehension esthetique qui permet de trouve
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Verges, João Vitor Gobis. "O projeto de ciência de Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859): introdução às dimensões transdisciplinares nas obras "quadros da natureza" e "cosmos"." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Parana, 2013. http://tede.unioeste.br:8080/tede/handle/tede/15.

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Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-12T14:41:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_Joao_Vitor_Gobis_Verges.pdf: 1569512 bytes, checksum: 254e1281708a64ffe715c98aeb941ee2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-29<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>This paper seeks to interweave science formulated by Alexander von Humboldt with the names and extend the findings to the contemporary science that aims to overcome the crisis of reason then verified fragmentary. In this case, from references that indicate the Newtonian-Cartesian rationalism as no proponent of effect
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Silveira, Roberison Wittgenstein Dias da 1982. "As influencias da filosofia kantiana e do movimento romantico na Genese da Geografia Moderna : os conceitos de espaço, natureza e morfologia em Alexander von Humboldt." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/287366.

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Orientador: Antonio Carlos Vitte<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociencias<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T20:57:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silveira_RoberisonWittgensteinDiasda_M.pdf: 1468779 bytes, checksum: 40fc5760f4a36c7140e5094d58c33157 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008<br>Resumo: A dissertação de mestrado que apresentamos toma forma na análise da Gênese da Geografia Moderna a partir dos conceitos de espaço, natureza e morfologia. Estes conceitos, fundamentais na construção do saber geográfico moderno em Alexander von Humboldt,
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Oliveira, Flavia Preto de Godoy. "Entre o fabuloso e o verossimil = cronicas e epistemologia no processo de cognição da America." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/278748.

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Orientador: Leandro Karnal<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T11:46:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_FlaviaPretodeGodoy_M.pdf: 1501708 bytes, checksum: 8bb64f164e17c683ef088683459c0260 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010<br>Resumo: O objetivo central desse trabalho é analisar como a percepção da natureza americana foi construída nas crônicas escritas nas décadas que sucederam a chegada dos primeiros europeus à América e como foi reelaborada em períodos posteriores a partir da l
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Springer, Kalina Salaib 1979. "A Frühromantik e as concepções de natureza, ciência, arte e sociedade em Alexander Von Humboldt." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/287365.

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Orientador: Antonio Carlos Vitte<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T00:18:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Springer_KalinaSalaib_D.pdf: 2543424 bytes, checksum: cb621b713b59545db1d7899d34529b9d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013<br>Resumo: Reconhecendo a complexidade das concepções e as diferenças entre as várias expressões que se inscrevem no conjunto das manifestações e idéias contempladas pelo Romantismo, neste trabalho, nos interessa destacar alguns traços que vão influenciar de modo marcante os trabalho
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Santos, Josevan Dutra dos 1968. "Uma discussão sobre a filogênese Kant-Goethe-Schopenhauer na constituição do conceito forma-paisagem e o seu impacto na geografia humboldtiana." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/287386.

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Orientador: Antonio Carlos Vitte<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T02:34:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santos_JosevanDutrados_M.pdf: 1573021 bytes, checksum: 170d4158a80bae5100aadc29c6c0b314 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012<br>Resumo: A proposta de investigação deste trabalho envolve uma temática que possui embasamento teórico envolvendo discursos histórico-filosóficos e naturalistas atribuídos ao longo do tempo às transfomações do termo forma. Para tanto, buscamos organizar um texto em que os ar
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Barbosa, Túlio [UNESP]. "Estética romântica germânica e a paisagem em Humboldt: percurso da geografia." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/105014.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:33:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-04-15Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:25:15Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 barbosa_t_dr_prud.pdf: 1833394 bytes, checksum: f15b58808366e115e594d8f49d673627 (MD5)<br>Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>Partimos da tese que o romantismo germânico influenciou, decisivamente, a reelaboração das ciências humanas, neste caso, estudamos especificamente a ciência geográfica e sua constituição a parti
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Silveira, Roberison Wittgenstein Dias da 1982. "Filosofia, arte e ciência = a paisagem na geografia de Alexander Von Humboldt." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/287378.

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Orientador: Antonio Carlos Vitte<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T04:58:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silveira_RoberisonWittgensteinDiasda_D.pdf: 4231278 bytes, checksum: 7618a5ec10784fd8dfa0a911c5f81cdb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012<br>Resumo: Humboldt incorpora muitos legados do seu contexto científico, estético e filosófico. Aparentemente contraditórias, na verdade excludentes, essas vias não podem sem qualquer dificuldade serem aproximadas, na medida em que partem de noções cosmológicas distint
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Cheirif, Wolosky Alejandro. "La représentation du voyage comme interruption historique : du monde de Christoferens au monde d'Alexander von Humboldt." Paris, EHESS, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EHES0111.

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Notre thèse est une investigation historique sur deux "mondes" détachés par une «interruption historique »: d'une part, le monde de "Christoferens" -Christophe Colomb, un marchand et navigateur de la fin du Moyen Age, d'autre part, le monde d'Alexander von Humboldt, l'explorateur paradigmatique de la fin du siècle des Lumières. L'axe méthodologique de l'investigation est la notion d'une « histoire interrompue ». Le concept d'interruption est prolifique dans la critique littéraire et dans le théâtre, ainsi que dans la musicologie et le cinéma. Toute en étant une technique narrative, il s'agit a
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Nour, Sckell Soraya. "La justice cosmopolite : histoire des principes et enjeux contemporains." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 10, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA100194.

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La justice cosmopolite présuppose la justice dans l’ordre interne d’un État ainsi que la justice internationale, en se différenciant aussi bien de l’une que de l’autre pour s’interroger sur le juste et l’injuste qui porte sur l’être humain en tant que tel et en tant qu’individu singulier, au-delà de son statut en tant que habitant, ressortissant ou citoyen d’un État, prenant ainsi aussi en compte les générations futures et l’environnement. Être cosmopolite est une condition à dimension individuelle et collective, liée à la construction de soi (un soi cosmopolite), à la manière de penser et de
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Books on the topic "1769-1859"

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James, Ward. James Ward 1769-1859. Fitzwilliam Museum, 1991.

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James, Ward. James Ward R.A., 1769-1859. Fitzwilliam Museum, 1991.

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Botting, Douglas. Humboldt, 1769-1859: Un savant démocrate. Belin, 1988.

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1769-1859, Ward James, and Walpole Society (Great Britain), eds. James Ward, RA (1769-1859): Papers and patrons. Produced for the for the Walpole Society by the Charlesworth Group, 2013.

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Sebastian, Panwitz, Schwarz Ingo, Knobloch Eberhard, Moses Mendelssohn-Zentrum für Europäisch-Jüdische Studien, and Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR. Alexander-von-Humboldt-Forschungsstelle, eds. Alexander von Humboldt - Familie Mendelssohn, Briefwechsel. Akademie Verlag, 2011.

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Ulrike, Leitner, ed. Alexander von Humboldts Schriften: Bibliographie der selbständig erschienenen Werke. Akademie Verlag, 2000.

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Beckett, Oliver. The life and work of James Ward, R.A., 1769-1859: The forgotten genius. Book Guild, 1995.

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Lubrich, Oliver, and Rex Clark. Transatlantic echoes: Alexander von Humboldt in world literature. Berghahn Books, 2012.

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Humboldt, Alexander von. Alexander von Humboldt, August Böckh, Briefwechsel. Akademie Verlag, 2011.

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Humboldt, Alexander von. Letters of Alexander von Humboldt: Written between the years 1827 and 1858, to Varnhagen von Ense : together with extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters from Varnhagen and others to Humboldt. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "1769-1859"

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Jahn, Ilse. "Humboldt, Alexander von (1769–1859)." In Goethe Handbuch. J.B. Metzler, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-03655-1_164.

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Kraft, Tobias. "von Humboldt, Alexander (1769–1859)." In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.61218-7.

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Rupke, Nicolaas A. "Alexander von Humboldt 1769–1859." In Key Thinkers on The Environment. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315543659-15.

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Kaulicke, Peter. "La vida y obra de Friedrich Max Uhle. Recientes logros, problemas y perspectivas." In Max Uhle (1856-1944): evaluaciones de sus investigaciones y obras. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.18800/9789972429293.001.

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A inicios del siglo XIX, entre 1799 y 1804, Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) emprendió su gran viaje a las «régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent», como reza el título de su obra publicada entre 1807 y 1839. La expedición le llevó a los modernos estados de Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, México y Estados Unidos (para el itinerario véase Yudilevich, 2004, pp. 18-19). Visitó el Perú por unos seis meses en 1802 (Thiemer-Sachse et al., 1993; Astuhuamán, 1999; Kindt, 1999; Núñez &amp; Petersen, 2002; Yudilevich, 2004). La obra de Humboldt es extraordinariamente vasta, diversificada y compleja, fruto de una larga vida dedicada enteramente a la investigación.
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Tylus, Piotr. "L’Isle de Cube ou l’Île de Cuba – note sur l’édition critique du texte et la langue d’Alexandre de Humboldt." In Essays in the History of Languages and Linguistics: Dedicated to Marek Stachowski on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/9788376388618.45.

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L’article contient certaines idées concernant les façons de procéder dans le cas de l’édition critique des écrits français d’Alexandre de Humboldt (1769–1859) – auteur allemand et auteur français par excellence, qui parfois rentre difficilement dans la norme linguistique de son temps, mais tout ce qui paraît être erreur à première vue, ne l’est pas. Comment l’éditer ? Corriger trop vite, à outrance, en posant un regard sévère, ainsi que l’on faisait dans les éditions allemandes d’autrefois, ou bien essayer de faire une distinction entre les solutions inhabituelles dues à la hâte et celles qui permettent de supposer un choix conscient de l’Auteur ? Humboldt archaïse souvent, de plus, il joue avec la langue et n’hésite pas à inventer, à créer, il pense la langue. Dans l’article il est question d’un cas particulier, celui du manuscrit d’Isle de Cube. Antilles en général, disponible dans une partie du patrimoine d’Alexandre de Humboldt, conservé dans le fonds « Berlinois » à la Bibliothèque Jagellonne de Cracovie. L’édition diplomatique et critique du texte, à l’établissement de laquelle P. Tylus a pris récemment une part active, vient de voir le jour (sur le site de l’Académie des Sciences de Berlin-Brandebourg).
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Gratzer, Walter. "Shocking experiment." In Eurekas and euphorias. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192804037.003.0135.

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Abstract Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was born into the Prussian nobility, a milieu in which a military career was all but foreordained. But the young Alexander developed an unaccountable and to his family wholly aberrant interest in science. Persisting in the face of stern disapproval, he entered the Mining Academy in Freiburg and returned to Prussia as an Inspector of Mines. He developed modified versions of Humphry Davy’s famous safety lamp and invented a breathing apparatus for miners. At the same time he was summoned to undertake diplomatic missions in an unsettled Europe. He somehow found time to establish his own Free Royal Mining School, where miners were taught about such subjects as geology. But Humboldt had set his heart all along on a life of science and exploration. He became possessed by a consuming fascination with geology, the Earth’s magnetic field and, above all, ‘animal magnetism’, for Galvani’s work on twitching frog muscles [58] had recently appeared. Humboldt developed a theory of his own: the metal electrodes, he decided, were not the cause of the twitches, they merely intensified an innate property of the muscle. He began a series of experiments on animal muscles and plants and then proceeded to test his ideas on himself.
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Morgan, Philip D. "Introduction." In Sea and Land. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197555446.003.0001.

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Abstract The introduction features German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), who visited the circum-Caribbean region for a number of years at the turn of the nineteenth century and wrote about it for the rest of his life. His observations and wide-ranging interests—especially his recognition of the binaries of land and sea, humans and animals, bewitching beauty and nightmarish horrors, exuberance and menace, utopian visions and dystopian realities, health and sickness—prefigure many of the themes of this book. His view of nature, confirmed and elaborated by his tropical sojourn, was that it was a web, in which all elements were connected. It was a living whole, a unified ecosystem, always prone to the dangers of environmental destruction, deforestation, and climatic shocks. The introduction then raises and provisionally answers the four key questions that animate this book: why focus on this part of the world, specifically? Who are the pioneers of Caribbean environmental history? How is the region defined geographically? Finally, what are the important chronological markers? The introduction emphasizes the mixing, movement, and displacement of peoples that led to intense sociocultural interaction and hybridity. The term for this moving and mixing is creole, which designates any person or thing born or created in the Caribbean, with an ancestry external to the region. The rest of the book elaborates on the emergence of this creole ecology resulting from the constant arrival, dispersal, and mingling of peoples, plants, pathogens, and products.
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Henderson, Andrew. "Palm Collectors, Palm Botanists, and Species Concepts." In The Palms The Amazon. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195083118.003.0005.

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Abstract The starting point of modern botanical systematics, the classification of plants, was 1753, the year in which Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) published his Species Plantarum.There he began the practice of using a binomial system to name species and of placing supposedly related species in groups. Linnaeus knew few palms and included only nine species in his work, one of which was a cycad and none of which were from the New World. He at least recognized, however, that palms formed a natural group, the Palmae. Linnaeus’s son Carl (1741-1783) was the first botanist to use the binomial system to describe an Amazon palm. In 1781, he published Mauritia flexuosa.He was also, unwittingly, the first botanist to emphasize the importance of field work in palm systematics. He did not see Mauritiain the field, and described it as having almost no leaves: “Valde singularis haec arbor fere aphylla” (This tree is alone in being nearly leafless) (Linnaeus, 1781). The first botanists actually to collect Amazon palms, at least those from the northern fringe of the region, were Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and Aime Bonpland (1773-1858).* These celebrated naturalists traveled in the New World between 1799 and 1804. They reached San Carlos de Rio Negro in southern Venezuela and investigated the Rio Casiquiare, which links the Orinoco with the Amazon. Humboldt was greatly impressed by palms. Unlike Linnaeus’s son, he saw Mauritia flexuosagrowing in the wild and wrote of the dependence of Indian tribes on it: “The benefits of It is possible that the first botanist to collect Amazon palms may have been Alexandre Ferreira (1756-1815). He traveled extensively in the Amazon region of Brazil between 1783 and 1792, 10 years before Humboldt and Bonpland (Ferreira, 1972; see also Prance, 1971). To be both patriotic and pedantic, however, I should point out that Sir Walter Ralegh collected a fruit of Mauritia flexuosafrom South America and brought it back to England in 1595 (Humboldt, 1850).
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"Die wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit LA kann in Deutschland auf eine lange Geschichte zurückblicken. Gerne wird in diesem Zusammenhang auf Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) verwiesen, der vor Ort ..." In Lateinamerika, edited by Günther Maihold, Hartmut Sangmeister, and Nikolaus Werz. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845294278-89.

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