圖書標籤: 傳記 自然 英文原版 洪堡 曆史 外國文學 科技 英語
发表于2024-12-25
The Invention of Nature pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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.
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
寫得比較雜 似乎是洪堡一生的事跡也不夠填滿一本書 而對於其他人物/事件的介紹如果是第一次看還有意思 如果本身就比較熟悉 就有些重復瞭
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評分年輕的洪堡癡迷於animal electricity的研究,用手術刀在自己的手臂和大腿上割開,撒上各種化學試劑接上電極,仔細記錄下電流通過時感官體驗的區彆…… 和用電擊shock的程度比較電流的大小的卡文迪許有的一拼。傳說中的科學狂人都是曆史上真實存在的啊!
評分後幾章略散 generally對某種言之鑿鑿的敘事方式有點不滿…專業相關逼自己看完梳理和其他啓濛運動人物關係還是有意思以及美國幾位自然寫作者跨界齣鏡及時
評分後幾章略散 generally對某種言之鑿鑿的敘事方式有點不滿…專業相關逼自己看完梳理和其他啓濛運動人物關係還是有意思以及美國幾位自然寫作者跨界齣鏡及時
书名小识 不像哥伦布或牛顿,洪堡没有发现一片新大陆或物理学上的新定律。他不是以某一项事实或发现著称的,而是以他的世界观;他的自然之观点已经渗透到了我们每个人的意识之中。 不像从小就知道大仲马和小仲马的区别,在没有读本书之前,我一直以为洪堡是一位地理学家兼语言...
評分文/宝木笑 “那么多种声音都在告诉我们,自然中的一切都在呼吸。” ——亚历山大•冯•洪堡 上面的话是刚过而立之年的亚历山大•冯•洪堡在南美洲的雨林中写下的,那段时间他和他的伙伴险象环生,睡觉时会有蛇盘踞在垫子下面,也许还有美洲豹毛茸茸的利爪慢慢伸来,搜...
評分文/宝木笑 “那么多种声音都在告诉我们,自然中的一切都在呼吸。” ——亚历山大•冯•洪堡 上面的话是刚过而立之年的亚历山大•冯•洪堡在南美洲的雨林中写下的,那段时间他和他的伙伴险象环生,睡觉时会有蛇盘踞在垫子下面,也许还有美洲豹毛茸茸的利爪慢慢伸来,搜...
評分The Invention of Nature pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024