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.
www.andreawulf.com
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.
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...
評分 評分 評分##1799年,30歲的亞曆山大·馮·洪堡終於如願坐上瞭 “畢查羅”巡航艦,從西班牙北部的卡塔納港揚帆起航,正式開啓瞭“辭職去旅行”模式。隨它一起踏上行程的是以下幾件重要物品:42件科學儀器——包括望遠鏡,顯微鏡,大型擺鍾,羅盤等;用來儲存種子和泥土樣本的玻璃瓶、成捲的...
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評分##一個多月前,全世界天文學傢們公布瞭一則消息,說他們“看到”瞭引力波,這件事有劃時代的意義,用官方語言講,這叫做:以多種觀測方式為特點的“多信使”天文學進入一個新時代。總之,打個比方,把人類的生活比喻成一場大型的在綫網絡遊戲的話,毫無疑問,現在是宇宙online版...
評分 評分##先簡單說下這本書吧。這本書是應當下的環保和全球變暖的問題而作,當下流行的自然觀即萬物都是相連的,沒有所謂的自然和社會之間的區彆,自然是一個萬物息息相關的有機體。比如Lovelock的Gaia,Wulf一再重復現在流行的這些觀點洪堡早就提齣來,並用其一生去證明earth as a livi...
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