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Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859, author.
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Natural history.
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Physical geography.
South America -- Description and travel.
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Views of nature / Al...
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Views of nature / Alexander von Humboldt ; translated by Mark W. Person ; edited by Stephen T. Jackson and Laura Dassow Walls.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859, author.
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016, c2014.
Subjects
Natural history.
Science.
Physical geography.
South America -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
9780226422473 (pbk.) :
022642247X (pbk.)
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viii, 313 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
Editor's note -- Introduction: reclaiming consilience -- Translator's note -- Hamboldt's Ansichten der Natur measurement units -- Views of Nature -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second and third editions -- Concerning the steppes and deserts -- Concerning the waterfalls of the Orinoco near Atures and Maypures -- The nocturnal wildlife of the primeval forest -- Hypsometric addenda -- Ideas for a physiognomy of plants -- Concerning the structure and action of volcanoes in various regions of the Earth -- The life force, or the Rhodian genius -- The plateau of Cajamarca, the old residential city of the Inca Atahualpa; first sight of the Pacific from the ridge of the Andes chain -- Annotations and additions.
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