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One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and se
A follow-up to Andrea Wulf's award-winning and critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is the story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shap
On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. United by this momentous occasion, scientists from around the globe came
On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the Earth and the Sun in more than a century. Through that observation, astronomers could calculate the size of the solar system--but only if they could
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MERLIN SHELDRAKE WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill Bryson 'Dazzling' Literary Review 'Brilliant' Sunday Express &#
'A witty, gossipy, sparkling history, full of bright jewels of anecdote... Magnificent Rebels is a triumph' THE TIMES, Book of the Week 'Extraordinary... A thrilling intellectual history that reads like a racy, intelligent novel, with a cast o
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) er den største videnskabsmand ingen kender til. Dette forsøger "The Invention of Nature" at lave om på. Selvom de fleste ikke rigtig ved, hvem Humboldt er, er flere ting i verden navngivet efter ham end nogen a
A fascinating look at the men who made Britain the center of the botanical world--from the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. "Wulf's flair for storytelling is combined with scholarship, brio, and
In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the mind. The rulers of Europe had ordered their peoples how
Der Weltbestseller - die große Biografie eines Universalgenies Er war seiner Zeit weit voraus: Alexander von Humboldt, Universalgelehrter, unermüdlicher Naturforscher, der »zweite Kolumbus« und »Wiederentdecker Amerikas«. Wie kein anderer Wissenschaftler
>Fabelhafte Rebellen Um 1800 galt die Idee vom freien Individuum als brandgefährlich. Und doch wagte es eine Gruppe von Denkern in der Universitätsstadt Jena, das Ich in den Mittelpunkt ihres Denkens, Schreibens und Lebens zu stellen. Zu diesen fabelhafte
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world-and in the process created modern environmentalism. NATIONAL BEST SELLER
Bogen fortæller historien om den tyske naturvidenskabsmand og forskningsrejsende Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) og om, hvordan han grundlagde den måde, vi forstår og beskriver naturen på i dag. Humboldt var den mest berømte videnskabsmand i sin samtid
A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five year expedition in South America. Al
Chosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in The Times, The Spectator, Prospect, Sunday Times, Economist, New Statesman, Telegraph, Financial Times, TLS, New York Times , and Washington Post . 'This is ridiculous. No book about German philosophy has any right to b
From the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature , a fascinating look at the Founding Fathers like none you've seen before. "Illuminating and engrossing.... The reader relives the first decades of the Republic ... through the words of the s
Prægtige rebeller er historien om en bemærkelsesværdig gruppe unge oprørere, som gennem deres uenigheder, gensidige støtte, lidenskabelige kærlighedshistorier, hjerteskærende sorg og radikale ideer lancerede Romantikken og inspirerede en ny tids tænkning.
Das außergewöhnlichste Buch zum Humboldt-Jahr von der Bestsellerautorin Zum 250. Geburtstag des größten deutschen Naturforschers am 14. September 2019 legt die preisgekrönte Humboldtexpertin Andrea Wulf ein farbenprächtiges, opulent illustriertes Buch übe
>Fabelhafte Rebellen Seit wann genau kreist unser Denken und Handeln um uns selbst, um unser Ich? Seit wann erwarten wir, dass wir allein über unser Leben bestimmen? Ende der 1790er Jahre - als die meisten Staaten in Europa noch im eisernen Griff absoluti
'Andrea Wulf belongs to the small, splendid canon of writers unafraid to render fact with feeling' Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian and author of Figuring An inspiring biography of the remarkable naturalist, explorer and revolutionary, by