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100 1 $aWulf, Andrea,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe invention of nature :$bthe adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science /$cAndrea Wulf.
246 3 $aAdventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science
264 1 $aLondon :$bJohn Murray,$c2016.
264 4 $c©2015.
300 $axxi, 473 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some colour), portraits ;$c20 cm.
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500 $a"Winner of the 2015 Costa biography Award"--Cover.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aBIOGRAPHY: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story: Humboldt explored deep into the rainforest, climbed the world's highest volcanoes and inspired princes and presidents, scientists and poets alike. Napoleon was jealous of him; Simon Bolivar's revolution was fuelled by his ideas; Darwin set sail on the Beagle because of Humboldt; and Jules Verne's Captain Nemo owned all his many books. He simply was, as one contemporary put it, 'the greatest man since the Deluge'.
505 2 $aDeparture: emerging ideas -- Arrival: collecting ideas -- Return: sorting ideas -- Influence: spreading ideas -- New worlds: evolving ideas.
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