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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Meinhardt, Maren, author.     Subjects     Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.     Scientists -- Germany -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Meinhardt, Maren, author.       by title:      Alexander von Humbol...         MARC Display

Alexander von Humboldt : how the most famous scientist of the Romantic Age found the soul of nature / Maren Meinhardt. by Meinhardt, Maren, author. New York : BlueBridge, 2019. Subjects Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.   Scientists -- Germany -- Biography. ISBN:  9781629190198 (hardcover) : 1629190195 (hardcover) Description:  274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous scientist and explorer of his day. "I view him as one of the greatest ornaments of the age," wrote Thomas Jefferson, and he received Humboldt in the White House in 1804. Ralph Waldo Emerson celebrated Humboldt as "one of those wonders of the world," and John Muir exclaimed, "How intensely I desire to be a Humboldt!" The great German poet Goethe was Humboldt's friend, and after reading Humboldt's work, Charles Darwin yearned to travel to distant lands. From Humboldt Redwoods State Park in California to Humboldthain park in Berlin, from South America's Humboldt Current to Greenland's Humboldt Glacier, numerous places, plants, and animals around the world are named after him. Born in Berlin in 1769, the young Alexander von Humboldt moved in the circles of Romantic writers and thinkers, studied mining, and worked as an inspector of mines before his "longing for wide and unknown things" made him resign and begin his great scientific expedition. For five years, from 1799 to 1804, Humboldt traveled through Central and South America. He and his collaborator, the French botanist Aimé Bonpland, journeyed on foot, by boat, and with mules through grasslands and forests, on rivers and across mountain ranges, and when Humboldt returned to Europe his coffers were full of scientific treasures. His legacy includes a sprawling body of knowledge, from the charge found in electric eels to the distribution of plants across different climate zones, and from the bioluminescence of jellyfish to the composition of falling stars.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 509.2 Humboldt Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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