Title Nature Translated : Alexander Von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain / Alison E. Martin.

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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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Contents	Intro; Nature Translated; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Series Editors' Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Styling Science; 2 Dispute and Dissociation: John Black's Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain (1811); 3 'A Colossal Literary and Scientific Task': Helen Maria Williams and the Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent (1814-1829); 4 'A Plain and Unassuming Style': Thomasina Ross and Humboldt's Travels (1852-1853); 5 The Poetry of Geography: The Ansichten der Natur in English Translation.
	6 Cosmos: The Universe TranslatedConclusions; Bibliography; Index.
Summary	This book shows how Alexander von Humboldt's British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in moulding his prose and his public persona as they reconfigured his works for readers in Britain and beyond.
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Subject	Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.
	Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.
	Natural history -- Great Britain -- History.
	Natural history.
	Great Britain.
	History.
	Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
	Scientists.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Naturalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
	Naturalists.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Biographies.
Other Form:	Print version: Martin, Alison E. Nature Translated : Alexander Von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2018 9781474439329
ISBN	9781474439343 (electronic book)
	1474439349 (electronic book)
	1474439322
	9781474439329

Title Nature Translated : Alexander Von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain / Alison E. Martin.

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