Did Alexander von Humboldt Invent Nature?

Did Alexander von Humboldt Invent Nature?

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World  Andrea Wulf, Deckle Edge, September 15, 2015

http://www.amazon.com/dp/038535066X

A brief excerpt from Andrea Wulf’s new book about Alexander von Humboldt

Stephanie Bastek, American Scholar, 22 September 2015

https://theamericanscholar.org/the-invention-of-nature/

‘The Invention of Nature,’ by Andrea Wulf

Colin Thubron, New York Times, 25 September 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/books/review/the-invention-of-nature-by-andrea-wulf.html?_r=0

The Invention of Nature finds science’s lost hero

Culture Lab, New Scientist, 2 September 2015

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22730371-300-the-invention-of-nature-finds-sciences-lost-hero/

The Very Great Alexander von Humboldt

Nathaniel Rich, New York review of books, 22 October 2015

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/oct/22/very-great-alexander-von-humboldt/

Did Alexander von Humboldt Invent Environmentalism?

Humboldt’s Gift

He was once the most celebrated naturalist in the world. What happened to him?

Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 October 2015

Humboldt’s Gifts

Countless places bear Alexander von Humboldt’s name. So do 300 plants, and 100 animals. Who was he?

Jenny Uglow, Wall Street Journal, 4 September 2015

http://www.wsj.com/articles/humboldts-gifts-1441400580

Alexander von Humboldt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt

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How Derivative was Humboldt? 

Microcosmic Nature Narratives in Early Modern Spanish America and the (Other) Origins of Humboldt's Ecological Sensibilities

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

Associate Professor of History, University at Buffalo/ 

https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Workshop%20II%20papers/Canizares_paper.doc.pdf

Alexander von Humboldt's invention of the natural landscape

Chunglin Kwa, The European Legacy 04/2005; 10:149-162. DOI: 10.1080/1084877052000330084

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/232949515_Alexander_von_Humboldt's_invention_of_the_natural_landscape

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