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I am almost finished with a book about Humboldt (Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf). It's been a fantastic read, and I was surprised/ashamed that I hadn't know
by Aaronstotle 5y ago
I am almost finished with a book about Humboldt (Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf). It's been a fantastic read, and I was surprised/ashamed that I hadn't known anything about Humboldt until earlier this year.
- artpi 5y agoThat's where all quotes in this article come from! Fantastic book.
- NelsonMinar 5y agoHumboldt is strangely forgotten these days. He was an enormous figure in his time and soon after, in the 19th century. An ideal heir to the Age of Enlightenment. There's places named for him all over the world. But now his name mostly gets a confused shrug.
- carapace 5y agoIIRC this was addressed in that book: his repute was tarnished by the wave of anti-German sentiment stemming from WWI.
- tagami 5y ago+1 on Wulf's book. A good weekend read!