The Invention of Nature

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Andrea Wulf
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Knopf 2015-9-15 Hardcover 9780385350662

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ANDREA WULF was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She lives in London, where she trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art. She is the author of Chasing Venus, Founding Gardeners, and The Brother Gardeners, which was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and awarded the American Horticultural Society Book Award. She has written for The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. She appears regularly on radio and TV, and in 2014 copresented British Gardens in Time, a four-part series on BBC television.

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The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism.

Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. In North America, his name still graces four counties, thirteen towns, a river, parks, bays, lakes, and mountains. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether he was climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infected Siberia or translating his research into bestselling publications that changed science and thinking. Among Humboldt’s most revolutionary ideas was a radical vision of nature, that it is a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone.

Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his daring expeditions and investigation of wild environments around the world and his discoveries of similarities between climate and vegetation zones on different continents. She also discusses his prediction of human-induced climate change, his remarkable ability to fashion poetic narrative out of scientific observation, and his relationships with iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson. Wulf examines how Humboldt’s writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Darwin, Wordsworth, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt’s influence that led John Muir to his ideas of natural preservation and that shaped Thoreau’s Walden.

With this brilliantly researched and compellingly written book, Andrea Wulf shows the myriad fundamental ways in which Humboldt created our understanding of the natural world, and she champions a renewed interest in this vital and lost player in environmental history and science.

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##The book provides a comprehensive account of Humboldt’s work and his scientific spirit that influenced and inspired two generations of scientists, poets and writers, which compensates for a regrettable lack of intellectual depth and rigor, though it may very well be that a more intellectually challenging work was not what she set out to achieve.

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安德烈亞 武爾夫的發現自然,講述瞭亞曆山大 馮 洪堡的科學發展之旅。以旅行與思想的格式編排瞭整本書的架構,按照齣發:新生的想法,到達:收集想法,歸途:整理想法,影響:傳播想法,新世界:想法的演化架構瞭整本書。這個結構自己很是喜歡,仿佛人生就是自然,思想以及人的...  

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洪堡是西方近現代最後一位通纔,興趣廣泛筆耕不輟,他的熱血都獻給瞭冒險和研究。作者聰明之處在於行文貫徹瞭主人公所信奉的整體論和萬物互聯的觀點,所以這本書不僅僅迴顧瞭這位德國博學傢的傳奇一生(在正文三分之二的地方洪堡就死瞭),還穿插著他對前輩(歌德)、同輩人(例如玻利瓦爾)和後來者(例如達爾文、梭羅、約翰·繆爾)的深遠影響。作者對於洪堡的性取嚮處理相對模糊,但從給齣的信息來分析,應該是柏拉圖式的同性戀者或是精神偏好男性的無性戀者。

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