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    Alexander von Humboldt. By L. Kellner. Pp. 247. Oxford University Press, 1963. £1 5s.Herbert Dingle - 1964 - British Journal for the History of Science 2 (2):171-171.
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    A ‘Temple of Liberty’? Alexander von Humboldt and the French Revolution.Andreas W. Daum - forthcoming - Annals of Science.
    This article sheds new light on Alexander von Humboldt’s political position in the revolutionary decade between 1789 and 1799. The young naturalist interacted with both supporters and opponents of the revolution. In July 1790, he even participated in the preparations for the Festival of the Federation in Paris together with Georg Forster. However, Humboldt remained detached from Europe’s polarized politics. He avoided taking a firm stance and distanced himself from revolutionary violence. Continuous emotional and physical crises, in (...)
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    Alexander von Humboldt;, Aimé Bonpland. Essay on the Geography of Plants. Edited by, Stephen T. Jackson. Translated by, Sylvie Romanowski. xx + 274 pp., illus., tables, bibl. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. $45. [REVIEW]Andreas W. Daum - 2011 - Isis 102 (4):781-782.
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    Alexander von Humboldt's invention of the natural landscape.Chunglin Kwa - 2005 - The European Legacy 10 (2):149-162.
    Landscape took on a new meaning through the new science of plant geography of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1857). In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, “landscape” was foremost a painterly genre. Slowly, painted landscapes came to bear on natural surroundings, but by 1800 it was still not common to designate sites as “landscapes.” Humboldt looked at plant vegetation with a painterly gaze. Artists, according to him, could suggest in their work that an abstract unity lay hidden underneath observable (...)
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    Humboldtian science: Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland: Essay on the geography of plants. Edited with an introduction by Stephen T. Jackson and translated by Sylvie Romanowski. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, xv+274pp, $45.00 HB.David Oldroyd - 2010 - Metascience 20 (3):581-584.
    Humboldtian science Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s11016-010-9480-6 Authors David Oldroyd, School of History and Philosophy, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052 Australia Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
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    Alexander Von humboldt, cosmos: A sketch of the physical description of the universe, translated by Elise C. otté, 2 vols. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins university press, 1997. Pp. 375 and 367. Isbn 0-8018-5502-0, £13.00, $15.95 ; 0-8018-5503-9, £13.00, $15.95. [REVIEW]Thomas Rohkrämer - 1999 - British Journal for the History of Science 32 (3):363-378.
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    Pilgrimage Journeying in Matsuo Bashō and Alexander von Humboldt.Thomas Heyd - 2019 - Journal of World Philosophies 4 (1):23-35.
    In this paper I argue that the concept of pilgrimage provides a unifying trope for the otherwise seemingly unfocused travel accounts of Bashō’s Narrow Road to the Interior and Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland’s Voyage aux régions equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent. I begin with a brief description of debates regarding the notion of pilgrimage. After that I show how pilgrimage as trope may be applied to the texts of these authors. This is followed by an application of (...)
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    Die Finanzbeziehungen zwischen Alexander von Humboldt und den Mendelssohns.Sebastian Panwitz - 2010 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 62 (3):248-260.
    The continuous substantial and flexible material support of the bankers Joseph and Alexander Mendelssohn were of essential importance for Alexander von Humboldt's outstanding scientific expeditions and his work as a publicist, coordinator and supporter of fellow scientist and scientific projects in Berlin for decades. New sources present this support of Humboldt by the Mendelssohns in all its depth and variety. At the same time, the enduring funding of one of Prussia's most important Bildungsbürger clearly illustrates that (...)
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    Alexander von Humboldt. Views of Nature. Edited by Stephen T. Jackson and Laura Dassow Walls. Translated by Mark W. Person. viii + 313 pp., tables, index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. $45. [REVIEW]Alison E. Martin - 2015 - Isis 106 (4):939-940.
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    Mining as the Working World of Alexander von Humboldt’s Plant Geography and Vertical Cartography.Patrick Anthony - 2018 - Isis 109 (1):28-55.
    By resituating Alexander von Humboldt in the “working world” of mining, this essay offers a case study of the way in which industry has shaped practice and theory in the history of science. While Humboldt’s experience as a miner in Saxony and Prussia provided him a venue in which to study fossilized vegetation, revealing a fundamental link between the migrations of plants and of peoples, industrial concerns about miners’ safety inspired a study of the interplay between plants (...)
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    Alexander von Humboldt. Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: A Critical Edition. Edited by, Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette. Translated by, J. Ryan Poynter. xxxv + 618 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2012. $65. [REVIEW]Nicolaas Rupke - 2014 - Isis 105 (1):233-234.
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    Alexander von Humboldt. Political Essay on the Island of Cuba: A Critical Edition. Edited by, Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette. Translated by, J. Bradford Anderson, Vera M. Kutzinski, and Anja Becker. xxvi + 519 pp., tables, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2011. $65. [REVIEW]Pedro Pruna-Goodgall - 2012 - Isis 103 (4):799-800.
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    New Observations on a Geological Hotspot Track:Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo(1825) by Mrs T. Edward Bowdich.Mary Orr - 2014 - Centaurus 56 (3):135-166.
    This paper works with the modern concept of the geological hotspot track – the building processes and movements of volcanic island chains – applied strategically to one of its illustrative formations, the Madeira Archipelago. By analogy, however, the concept works equally well to describe the important early 19th-century scientific knowledge-building activity that produced Charles Lyell's On the Geology of Some Parts of Madeira (1854). A central section of the paper uncovers the contributions to knowledge of this geology before Lyell's, and (...)
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  14. LA CONOSCIBILITÀ DEL MONDO SECONDO ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT: L’ESPERIENZA DEL PAESAGGIO.Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo - 2015 - Rivista Geografica Italiana 122:1-14.
    The cognizability of the world according to Alexander von Humboldt: the experience of landscape. According to Alexander von Humboldt, geography ought to aim to go beyond the modern attitude of seeing knowledge as being the result of a spatial and temporal abstraction from the real world. Von Humboldt wishes to create a new theory of knowledge, one that instead of just simplifying, schematizing, and categorizing reality is able to highlight its multiple meanings, its diversity of (...)
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    The ultimate "other": Post-colonialism and Alexander Von humboldt's ecological relationship with nature.Aaron Sachs - 2003 - History and Theory 42 (4):111–135.
    This article is a meditation on the overlaps between environmentalism, post-colonial theory, and the practice of history. It takes as a case study the writings of the explorer-scientist-abolitionist Alexander von Humboldt , the founder of a humane, socially conscious ecology. The post-colonial critique has provided a necessary corrective to the global environmental movement, by focusing it on enduring colonialist power dynamics, but at the same time it has crippled the field of environmental history, by dooming us to a (...)
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    Nature's Interpreter: The Life and Times of Alexander von Humboldt. By Donald McCrory.Stanley Shostak - 2012 - The European Legacy 17 (7):960-961.
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    Ein ‘Diplomat aus den Wäldern des Orinoko.’ Alexander von Humboldt als Mittler zwischen Preußen und Frankreich - by Ulrich Päßler.Nicolaas Rupke - 2010 - Centaurus 52 (2):157-158.
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    From William Hyde Wollaston to Alexander von Humboldt - Star Spectra and Celestial Landscape.Jürgen Teichmann & Arthur Stinner - 2014 - Annals of Science 71 (1):27-60.
    SummaryThe discovery of dark lines in the spectrum of the sun as well as in some fixed stars since 1802 by William Hyde Wollaston, Joseph Fraunhofer and Johann Lamont is a relatively isolated phenomenon in the history of astronomy of the first half of the 19th century. Wollaston's representation of the sun's spectrum of 1802 can be seen as a simplification and reduction of the phenomenon by way of a seemingly clear connection with contemporary knowledge. Fraunhofer's famous colour etching of (...)
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    Transzendenz und Immanenz: Philosophie und Theologie in der veränderten Welt: internat. Zusammenarbeit im Grenzbereich von Philosophie u. Theologie: Tagungsbeitr. e. Symposiums d. Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Bonn-Bad Godesberg, veranst. vom 12. bis 17. Oktober 1976 in Ludwigsburg.Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (ed.) - 1977 - Mainz: Kohlhammer.
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    (2 other versions)Ideen zu einer Physiognomik der Gewächse.Alexander von Humboldt - 2016 - Zeitschrift Fuer Medien Und Kulturforschung 2016 (2):77-84.
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  21. Book notices-cosmos. A sketch of a physical description of the universe.Alexander von Humboldt - 1998 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 20 (3):376.
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  22. Epigenesis. Wilhelm von Humboldt Und Die Naturphilosophie.Helmut H. Muller-Sievers - 1990 - Dissertation, Stanford University
    The following study tries to elucidate the connection between the discourse of natural philosophy in the late eighteenth century and Wilhelm von Humboldt's anthropological, aesthetic and linguistic writings. The concepts of force, organism and, most significantly, of generation, as they were developed in the natural sciences, are shown to have strongly influenced Humboldt's philosophy. ;The first chapter reconstructs the scientific discussion about biological generation in the 18th century. At the end of the century, the widely accepted theory of (...)
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    Humanist Without Portfolio; An Anthology of the Writings of Wilhelm Von Humboldt. Translated From the German With an Introd. by Marianne Cowan.Wilhelm Freiherr von Humboldt - 1963 - Detroit,: Wayne State University Press. Edited by Marianne Cowan.
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    Further Notes on the Text of Seneca's De Beneficiis.W. H. Alexander - 1937 - Classical Quarterly 31 (1):55-60.
    These suggestions for the betterment and elucidation of the text of the De Beneficiis are additional to those already published in the Classical Quarterly in January, 1934. They are based on a conviction much deepened since that time that Buck1 is right when he says: N allein, und zwar ohne seine Ueberarbeitungen von späteren Händen, darf die Grundlage des Textes von de beneficiis bilden. Préchac3, the latest critical editor in this field, substantially confirms Buck's sweeping conclusion by an independent survey (...)
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  25. Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Further Information: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Jean-Paul-Straße 12 D-53173 Bonn.Forschungsstipendien der, Humboldt-Stiftung An, Hochqualifizierte Promovierte, Wissenschaftler Aller Fachgebiete, Biszu Im Alter, Jahren Für Einen & In Deutschland - forthcoming - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie.
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    Max Weber on Science: Reception and Perspectives.Alexander Yu Antonovski & Raisa E. Barash - 2018 - Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 55 (4):174-188.
    The article is devoted to social problems of modern science (as it were interpreted Max Weber) considered in the context of the system-communicative approach by N. Luhmann. In contrast to the modern work of art, the modern science, as M. Weber believes, is associated with the fundamental unattainability of “true being”, and, as a result, with the transitory character of any scientific achievement. The specialty of modern science, as Weber noted, is determinated, on the one hand by its self-understanding, due (...)
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    Humboldtian Science and Humboldt’s science.Andreas W. Daum - forthcoming - History of Science.
    This article investigates why Humboldtian Science, as a heuristic concept, has gained prominence in the historiography of science and requires clarification. It offers an ideal-type model of comparative research and exact measurements across vast spaces, which Susan F. Cannon and others tied to Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859). Yet, he himself was less “Humboldtian” than this concept suggests. The article proposes to disentangle Humboldtian Science from Humboldt’s science, which constituted a set of individual research practices that defied the (...)
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    “My Reputation is at Stake.” Humboldt's Mountain Plant Geography in the Making (1803–1825).Susanne S. Renner, Ulrich Päßler & Pierre Moret - 2023 - Journal of the History of Biology 56 (1):97-124.
    Alexander von Humboldt’s depictions of mountain vegetation are among the most iconic nineteenth century illustrations in the biological sciences. Here we analyse the contemporary context and empirical data for all these depictions, namely the _Tableau physique des Andes_ (1803, 1807), the _Geographiae plantarum lineamenta_ (1815), the _Tableau physique des Îles Canaries_ (1817), and the _Esquisse de la Géographie des plantes dans les Andes de Quito_ (1824/1825). We show that the Tableau physique des Andes does not reflect Humboldt (...)
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    Alexander von Humboldt und die Berufung Jacob Jacobis an die Wiener Universität.Herbert Pieper - 2005 - NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 13 (3):137-155.
    On February 5, 1850, the Austrian emperor Franz Josef appointed C.G. Jacob Jacobi to the position of full professor at the University of Vienna. Thanks to the efforts of Alexander von Humboldt, however, the world-famous Prussian mathematician remained in Berlin and continued in his position as a salaried member of the Academy of Sciences.This paper describes the history of Jacobi’s appointment in Vienna and his ultimate rejection of it.
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    Alexander von Humboldt, Humboldtian Science and the Origins of the Study of Vegetation.Malcolm Nicolson - 1987 - History of Science 25 (2):167-194.
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    Immanuel Kant und Alexander von Humboldt.Paul von Lind - 1897 - Erlangen,: Buchdr. von F. Junge (Junge & sohn).
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    Humboldt, Darwin, and theory of evolution.Bogdana Stamenković - 2022 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 44 (4):1-29.
    Numerous authors have examined the influence of other thinkers on Darwin’s formulation of some of the key concepts of the theory of evolution. Amongst those, Alexander von Humboldt often stands out – a scholar who, following his intention to explain the interconnection of various parts of the natural system, seems to tackle the question of evolution but does not offer an explicit answer. In this article, I examine Humboldt’s thoughts on evolution and the origin of species and (...)
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    Alexander von Humboldt.Ottmar Ette - 2018 - Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 55 (1):136-154.
    The long-term scientific interests of Alexander von Humboldt ranged from anthropology and ancient American studies to geology and geography, climatology and cultural theory, physics and plant geography to language history, volcanology and zoology. As a scientist, he crossed different disciplines and explored new paths of knowledge. Humboldt developed a transdisciplinary and, in the widest sense, nomadic knowledge as a traveller through the sciences. Like a nomad, he did not seek to possess or destroy a territory (of knowledge): (...)
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    The Prussian Mining Official Alexander von Humboldt.Ursula Klein - 2012 - Annals of Science 69 (1):27-68.
    Summary From summer 1792 until spring 1797, Alexander von Humboldt was a mining official in the Franconian parts of Prussia. He visited mines, inspected smelting works, calculated budgets, wrote official reports, founded a mining school, performed technological experiments, and invented a miners’ lamp and respirator. At the same time he also participated in the Republic of Letters, corresponded with savants in all Europe, and was a member of the Leopoldine Carolinian Academy and the Berlin Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde. He (...)
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    Alexander von Humboldt?The Explorer and the Scientist.Eberhard Knobloch - 2007 - Centaurus 49 (1):3-14.
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  36. Alexander von Humboldts 'Kosmos' und die Naturwissenschaft heute.J. Meurers - 1979 - Philosophia Naturalis 17 (4):424.
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  37. Alexander von Humboldts Beziehungen zu Karol Forster.Roman Jaskuła - 1997 - Berlin: Alexander-von-Humboldt-Forschungsstelle.
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  38. Alexander von Humboldt , Gedenkschrift zur 100. Wiederkehr seines Todestages.M. Klein - 1960 - Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 13 (2):156-157.
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  39. Alexander von Humboldt and Monism.Nicolaas Rupke - 2012 - In Todd H. Weir (ed.), Monism: science, philosophy, religion, and the history of a worldview. New York, N.Y.: Palgrave-Macmillan.
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  40. Alexander von Humboldt on Evolution of Natural Species.Bogdana Stamenković - 2021 - In Thomas McCloughlin (ed.), The Nature of Science in Biology: A Resource for Educators. pp. 205-214.
    The aim of this paper is to analyse Alexander von Humboldt's views on the theory of evolution and tackle the following question: Can Humboldt be considered an evolutionist? I seek to show that Humboldt acknowledges three essential Darwinian elements of the theory of evolution: fossil records, the geographical distribution of species and the struggle for survival. Further, Humboldt recognises a special relation between the natural environment and organic life, and understands it in light of his (...)
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    Alexander von Humboldt: His Portraits and Their Artists; A Documentary Iconography. Halina Nelken.Ilse Andrews - 1981 - Isis 72 (4):687-688.
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    Alexander von Humboldt: Counternarrative of a dissenter? : Laura Dassow Walls: The passage to cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, xv+404pp, US$35.00 HB. [REVIEW]Andreas W. Daum - 2010 - Metascience 20 (3):577-579.
    Alexander von Humboldt: Counternarrative of a dissenter? Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s11016-010-9514-0 Authors Andreas W. Daum, History Department, 570 Park Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
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    Alexander von Humboldt. Erschliesser einer neuen WeltEwald Banse.Helmut de Terra - 1960 - Isis 51 (2):217-218.
  44. Alexander von Humboldt-Carl Ritter, Briefwechsel, hrsg. von Ulrich Päßler.Isabella Ferron - 2011 - Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 66 (3):599.
     
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  45. Alexander Von humboldt and revolution: A geography of reception of the varnhagen Von ense correspondence.Nicolaas Rupke - 2005 - In David N. Livingstone & Charles W. J. Withers (eds.), Geography and revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
     
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    Alexander von Humboldt as Historian of Science in Latin America.C. Browne - 1944 - Isis 35:134-139.
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    Alexander von Humboldt und Spanien im 19. Jahrhundert: Analyse eines wechselseitigen Wahrnehmungsprozesses.Sandra Rebok - 2006 - Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert.
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    Alexander von Humboldt und seinKosmos.Petra Werner - 2003 - NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 11 (1):47-53.
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    Alexander Von Humboldt on Slavery in America.Philip S. Foner - 1983 - Science and Society 47 (3):330 - 342.
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    (1 other version)Alexander Von humboldt (†1859) und condorcet.E. F. Podach - 1958 - Kant Studien 50 (1-4):403-404.
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