Part I. Departure : emerging ideas. Beginnings ; Imagination and nature : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Humboldt ; In search of a destination -- Part II. Arrival : collecting ideas. South America ; ...

The Invention of Nature brings remarkable scientist Alexander von Humboldt back to life ...

In The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt the Lost Hero of Science, Andrea Wulf sets out to restore Humboldt’s reputation in the English-speaking world, and suggests two ...

On September 14, 2019 a full moon of extraordinary brilliance shown round the world as if the entire cosmos had joined in a celebration. It was the 250th anniversary of the birth of Alexander von ...

Who has a Brazilian river, Mexican mountain, glacier in Greenland, and crater on the Moon named after him—although today, he’s largely forgotten? Meet globe-trekking explorer, scientist, and ...

LONDON (AP) -- A biography of German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt has been named science book of the year. Andrea Wulf’s “The Invention of Nature” was awarded the 25,000-pound ...

In “Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self,” Andrea Wulf explores how a group of writers and philosophers in a small German town in the late 18th century formulated very ...

More than 200 years ago, a German scientist Alexander von Humboldt spent five years traveling across the South American continent, making revolutionary discoveries about the workings of the natural ...

How did we forget about Alexander von Humboldt? Learn all about the polymath who helped shape our understanding of the natural world. This August, the SciFri Book Club is reading The Invention of ...