The passage to Cosmos : Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America / Laura Dassow Walls.

The passage to Cosmos : Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America /

Humboldt offered the world a vision of humans & nature as integrated halves of a single whole. He espoused the idea that while the univerise of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty & order are human achievements. Laura Dassow Walls traces the emergence of this philosophy to Hum...

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Main Author: Walls, Laura Dassow
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Edition:Paperback ed.
Subjects:
Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859 > Influence.
Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859. > Kosmos.
Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859 > Political and social views.
Science > History > 19th century.
United States > Intellectual life > 19th century.

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Call Number: 509.2 .H86wal 2011
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