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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/300982360 Title: The passage to Cosmos : Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America Author: Laura Dassow Walls Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN/ISSN: 9780226871820 0226871827 OCLC:300982360

  
  

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The passage to Cosmos : Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America

Author:	Laura Dassow Walls
Publisher:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Edition/Format:	Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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. This title traces Humboldt's ideas for "Cosmos" to his 1799 journey to the Americas, where he first experienced the diversity of nature and of the world's people.  Read more...
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Subjects	Humboldt, Alexander von, -- 1769-1859 -- Influence -- United States. Humboldt, Alexander von, -- 1769-1859. -- Kosmos. Humboldt, Alexander von, -- 1769-1859 -- Political and social views. View all subjects
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