Views of nature / Alexander von Humboldt ; translated by Mark W. Person ; edited by Stephen T. Jackson and Laura Dassow Walls.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Ansichten der Natur. English
Main Author: Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 (Author)
Other Authors: Jackson, Stephen T., 1955-
Walls, Laura Dassow
Person, Mark W.
Language:English
Language of the Original:
German
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Natural history.
Science.
Physical geography.
Travel.
South America > Description and travel.
Physical Description:viii, 313 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.