| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 404 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Humboldt's bridge -- Confluences -- Passage to America, 1799-1804 -- Manifest destinies -- Interchapter: Finally shall come the poet -- "All are alike designed for freedom": Humboldt on race and slavery -- The community of Cosmos -- The face of planet America -- Epilogue: recalling Cosmos. |
| Summary |
Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a single whole. In it, Humboldt espoused the idea that, while the universe of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty and order, the very idea of the whole it composes, are human achievements: cosmos comes into being in the dance of world and mind, subject and object, science and poetry. Humboldt' |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 -- Influence -- United States.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859. Kosmos.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 -- Political and social views.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859. |
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Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859. |
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Kosmos (Humboldt, Alexander von) |
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Science -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books -- Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Walls, Laura Dassow. Passage to Cosmos. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2009 9780226871820 (DLC) 2009003099 (OCoLC)300982360 |
| ISBN |
0226871843 (electronic bk.) |
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9780226871844 (electronic bk.) |
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9780226871820 (alk. paper) |
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0226871827 (alk. paper) |
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