Cosmos: a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe

Alexander Von Humboldt

ISBN 10: 0371461014 / ISBN 13: 9780371461013

Edité par HardPress Limited, 2018

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• Titre: Cosmos: a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe
• Éditeur: HardPress Limited
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0371461014
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780371461013
• Reliure: PAP
• État de l'article: New
• Poids: 356 grammes

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À propos de l?auteur

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.[5] He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835).[6][7][8] Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. Humboldt's advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring.[9][10] Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in the Americas, exploring and describing them for the first time from a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in several volumes over 21 years. Humboldt was one of the first people to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular). Humboldt resurrected the use of the word cosmos from the ancient Greek and assigned it to his multivolume treatise, Kosmos, in which he sought to unify diverse branches of scientific knowledge and culture. This important work also motivated a holistic perception of the universe as one interacting entity.[11] He was the first person to describe the phenomenon and cause of human-induced climate change, in 1800 and again in 1831, based on observations generated during his travels.