TY  - GEN
T1  - Nature's interpreter : the life and times of Alexander von Humboldt
A1  - McCrory, Donald
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge, UK
PB  - Lutterworth Press
YR  - 2010
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1350416685
AB  - Inspired by the life and times of Alexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859 , this biography follows Humboldt, who is considered the father of the Natural Sciences and in his day was as well known as Napoleon, and traces his childhood in what was then Prussia, his education at various Universities his training as a mining engineer and how he progressed into the sciences. Duringing the Age of Enlightenment, Humboldt's journey to South America between 1799 and 1804 with Aime Bonpland, changed the course of both their lives and during this period of exploration, they sent back to Paris and Berlin some 6000 samples of new species, minerals and animals. En route the scientists collected a mass of detailed information - cartographical, geological, astronomical, botanical, anthropological and linguistic - that took a life time to decipher.
OP  - 243
CN  - Q143.H9
SN  - 9780718897000
SN  - 0718897005
SN  - 9780718892319
SN  - 0718892313
KW  - Humboldt, Alexander von, : 1769-1859.
KW  - Humboldt, Alexander von, : 1769-1859
KW  - Naturalists : Germany : Biography.
KW  - Naturalistes : Allemagne : Biographies.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
KW  - Naturalists
KW  - Germany
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Biographies
ER  -