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Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin in Prussia on 14 September 1769. [19] He was baptized as a baby in the Lutheran faith, with the Duke of Brunswick serving as godfather. [20] His father, Alexander Georg von Humboldt (1720-1779), belonged to a prominent German noble family from Pomerania.
Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe (in German Kosmos – Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung) is an influential treatise on science and nature written by German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt.
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World is a nonfiction book released in 2015, by the historian Andrea Wulf about the Prussian naturalist, explorer and geographer Alexander von Humboldt. The book follows Humboldt from his early childhood and travels through Europe as a young man to his journey through Latin America and his ...
Late 1790s/early 1800s: Humboldtian science by Alexander von Humboldt [80] 1834: Humboldt penguin by Franz Meyen, after its initial discovery by Alexander von Humboldt [81] 1835: Cell division by Hugo von Mohl [82] 1835: Discovery and description of mitosis by Hugo von Mohl [83]
Alexander von Humboldt's Latin American expedition. Between 1799 and 1804, Baron Alexander von Humboldt a German naturalist and explorer, traveled extensively in Spanish America, under the protection of king Charles IV of Spain. Humboldt intended to investigate how the forces of nature interact with one another and find out about the unity of ...
Alexander von Humboldt died in 1859, while working on the fifth volume of Kosmos. [4] Through his travels to South America and his observational records in An Essay on the Geography of Plants as well as Kosmos, an important trend emerged through his techniques of observation, scientific instruments used and unique perspective on nature ...
Alexander von Humboldt and Karl Möbius then contributed with the notion of biocoenosis. Eugenius Warming 's work with ecological plant geography led to the founding of ecology as a discipline. [ 6 ] Charles Darwin 's work also contributed to the science of ecology, and Darwin is often attributed with progressing the discipline more than anyone ...
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (2015) is a nonfiction book about the Prussian naturalist, explorer and geographer Alexander von Humboldt.Wulf makes the case that Humboldt synthesised knowledge from many different fields to form a vision of nature as one interconnected system, that would go on to influence scientists, activists and the public.