Cosmos
Cosmos

Author: Alexander von Humboldt

Publisher:

Published: 1845

Total Pages: 160

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COSMOS
COSMOS

Author: ALEXANDER VON. HUMBOLDT

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781033233580

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Cosmos
Cosmos

Author: Alexander von Humboldt

Publisher:

Published: 1852

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13:

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Humboldt's Cosmos
Humboldt's Cosmos

Author: Gerard Helferich

Publisher: Tantor eBooks

Published: 2011-08-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1618030108

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From 1799 to 1804, German naturalist and adventurer Alexander von Humboldt conducted the first extensive scientific exploration of Latin America. At the completion of his arduous 6,000-mile journey, he was feted by Thomas Jefferson, presented to Napoleon and, after the publication of his findings, hailed as the greatest scientific genius of his age. Humboldt’s Cosmos tells the story of this extraordinary man who was equal parts Einstein and Livingstone, and of the adventure that defined his life. Gerard Helferich vividly recounts Humboldt’s expedition through the Amazon, over the Andes, and across Mexico and Cuba, highlighting his paradigm-changing discoveries along the way. During the course of the expedition, Humboldt cataloged more than 60,000 plants, set an altitude record climbing the volcano Chimborazo, and introduced millions of Europeans and Americans to the great cultures of the Inca and the Aztecs. In the process, he also revolutionized geology and laid the groundwork for modern sciences such as climatology, oceanography, and geography. His contributions would profoundly influence future greats such as Charles Darwin and shape the course of science for centuries to come. Humboldt’s Cosmos is a dramatic tribute to one of history’s most audacious adventurers, who, as Stephen Jay Gould noted, "may well have been the world’s most famous and influential intellectual."

Conceptions of Cosmos
Conceptions of Cosmos

Author: Helge Kragh

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0199209162

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This book is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythical and later in a scientific context. Starting with the creation stories of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the book covers all the major events in theoretical and observational cosmology, from Aristotle's cosmos over the Copernican revolution to the discovery of the accelerating universe in the late 1990s. It presents cosmology as asubject including scientific as well as non-scientific dimensions, and tells the story of how it developed into a true science of the heavens. Contrary to most other books in the history of cosmology, it offers an integrated account of the development with emphasis on the modern Einsteinian andpost-Einsteinian period. Starting in the pre-literary era, it carries the story onwards to the early years of the 21st century.

Calibrating the Cosmos
Calibrating the Cosmos

Author: Frank Levin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-04-05

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0387497684

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This book explains in clear, non-mathematical language the measurements and the interpretation of the resulting data that have led to the current understanding of the origin, evolution and properties of our expanding Big Bang universe. Theoretical concepts are emphasized, but no other book for the layman explains how model universes are generated, and how they function as the templates against which ours is compared and analyzed. Background material is provided in the first four chapters; the current picture and how it was attained are discussed in the next four chapters; and some unsolved problems and conjectured solutions are explored in the final chapter.

Geographia Literaria: Studies in Earth, Ethics, and Literature
Geographia Literaria: Studies in Earth, Ethics, and Literature

Author: Jagannath Sarkar, Jayjit Basu

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 383821580X

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By sensing the fundamental ideas of earth and the earth-thought, this collection seeks to negotiate with and react to the underlying semasiological or psycho-geographical principle of geopoetics that cuts across varied and at times conflicting schools. From reading some geopoetical texts to understanding the idea of earth in Humboldt and Marx-Engels, topolitics in Tintin, reef-thinking, geopoet(h)ics and Asiabodh, the volume tries to perceive how we poetically exist with the earth. Isn’t literature, taking a cue from Hölderlin, a symptom of the way “man lives poetically on the earth”? How is our body and psyche integral parts of the earth-thought? How does literature deal with the concepts of space and place? How literature enables us to comprehend the underlying principle of geopoetics — the principle of finding art in earth? These are some of the critical questions which this volume seeks to explore. Literature exemplifies a geographical consciousness — an “intimate and subjective” experience of the earth. This book is an attempt to conceive this eclectic infusion of art and earth, so that we are able to ensure that the world of the art always remains in touch with the earth of the world. Let us, through this book, un-earth this deep-rooted spatiality and geographicality in literature. Let us imitate earth through art, as this is the only place where we can live.

COSMOS
COSMOS

Author: Alexander Von 1769-1859 Humboldt

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-25

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781361552056

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