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A visionary, renaissance man, scientist and humanist, von Humboldt epitomizes my desire to provide a base of support for a distinguished scholar to simulate a synthetic, integrative approach to geography. It is my wish that the von Humboldt Chairholder also use the interest from the fund for research, student support, materials acquisitions and ...
Sep 9, 2019 · Exploring Spanish America. From 1799 until 1804, Alexander von Humboldt and his traveling companion Aime Bonpland journeyed through today's Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and the ...
In 1805 Humboldt and Bonpland published this plant geography map, which Humboldt called his Naturgemälde or “picture of nature.”. It combines illusionistic watercolor with a cutaway diagram labeled with the plants he and Bonpland observed in South America, shown at the altitudes where they found them. This map affirmed his belief that the ...
In this article we will discuss about the contribution of Carl Ritter to the development of modern geography. Carl Ritter exercised a much more direct influence on the development and growth of geography in Germany than did Humboldt. Ritter was born in Quedlinburg in 1779. His father was a physician and when he died his widow lacked any means ...
May 30, 2013 · The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799–1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aimé Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth century, and inspired such essayists and artists as Emerson, Goethe, Thoreau, Poe, and Church.
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General (systematic) geography treats the whole world as a unit. Regional geography on the other hand deals with the description of particular regions or spatial units. After Alexander Varenius, von Humboldt, founder of modern geography continued the tradition of dichotomy between regional and systematic geography.
For this letter and Humboldt’s two successive letters to Parlatore, which are reproduced here, the author had purposely omitted any note of criticism or scientific BOTANICAL GEOGRAPHY CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT AND FILIPPO PARLATORE (1851-1852) comment, stating that he wished to leave “attentive scientific analysis to a ...
