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A portrait of the German naturalist reveals his ongoing influence on humanity's relationship with the natural world today, discussing such topics as his views on climate change, conservation, and nature as a resource for all life.
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. In North America, his name still graces counties, towns, a river, parks, bays, lakes, and mountains. His restless life...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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[2018]
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English
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"Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman explores the extraordinary life and scientific discoveries of Maria Merian, who discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented the science behind the mystery in this visual biography that features many original paintings by Maria herself."--
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Harcourt
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[2007]
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English
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Before Darwin, before Audubon, there was Maria Sibylla Merian.
An artist turned naturalist known for her botanical illustrations, Merian was born just sixteen years after Galileo proclaimed that the earth orbited the sun. But at the age of fifty, she sailed from Europe to the New World on a solo scientific expedition to study insect metamorphosis-an unheard-of journey for any naturalist at that time, much less a woman.
When she returned, she...
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The Experiment
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"A richly illustrated middle-grade narrative biography about the life and adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the late eighteenth-, early nineteenth-century Prussian polymath-explorer, lost hero of science, and source of inspiration for Charles Darwin and Henry David Thoreau"--
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John Murray
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2015.
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English
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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story: Humboldt explored deep into the rainforest, climbed the world's highest volcanoes and inspired...
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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[2018]
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English
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In 1660, at the age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) began her study of butterfly metamorphosis years before any other scientist published an accurate description of the process. Later, Merian and her daughter ventured thousands of miles from their home in the Netherlands into the rainforests of South America seeking new and amazing insects to observe and illustrate.
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Naturforschende Gesellschaft Zürich. Neujahrsblatt volume Stück 168
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Kommissionsverlag Leemann
Pub. Date
1966.
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Deutsch
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Clavis Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Young Alexander von Humboldt's pockets are always full of treasures from the forest: stones, insects, plants, and fossils. In the second half of the nineteenth century, he grows up to become a science-adventurer and climate genius. His expeditions take him all over the world and lead to many new discoveries."--Amazon.
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Wydawnictwo Poznańskie
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[2023]
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Polish
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"Na jego cześć nazwano miasta, rzeki, pasma górskie, prąd oceaniczny, pingwina, gigantyczną kałamarnicę, a nawet morze na Księżycu. Barwne życie Alexandra von Humboldta jest jak żywcem wyjęte z powieści przygodowej: zapuścił się w lasy deszczowe, wspiął na najwyższe wulkany świata, był podziwiany przez władców i prezydentów, uczonych i poetów. Inspirował Napoleona, Darwina, Bolívara, a nawet kapitana Nemo z powieści Juliusza...
17) Where the sea breaks its back: the epic story of a pioneer naturalist and the discovery of Alaska
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1966.
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English
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Taschen
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and doctor who spent his life researching flora and fauna from the highest mountaintops to the deepest ocean. A vociferous supporter and developer of Darwin's theories of evolution, he denounced religious dogma, authored philosophical treatises, gained a doctorate in zoology, and coined scientific terms which have passed into common usage, including...
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