圖書標籤: 傳記 自然 英文原版 洪堡 曆史 外國文學 科技 英語
发表于2024-05-13
The Invention of Nature pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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.
Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. In North America, his name still graces four counties, thirteen towns, a river, parks, bays, lakes, and mountains. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether he was climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infected Siberia or translating his research into bestselling publications that changed science and thinking. Among Humboldt’s most revolutionary ideas was a radical vision of nature, that it is a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone.
Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his daring expeditions and investigation of wild environments around the world and his discoveries of similarities between climate and vegetation zones on different continents. She also discusses his prediction of human-induced climate change, his remarkable ability to fashion poetic narrative out of scientific observation, and his relationships with iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson. Wulf examines how Humboldt’s writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Darwin, Wordsworth, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt’s influence that led John Muir to his ideas of natural preservation and that shaped Thoreau’s Walden.
With this brilliantly researched and compellingly written book, Andrea Wulf shows the myriad fundamental ways in which Humboldt created our understanding of the natural world, and she champions a renewed interest in this vital and lost player in environmental history and science.
ANDREA WULF was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She lives in London, where she trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art. She is the author of Chasing Venus, Founding Gardeners, and The Brother Gardeners, which was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and awarded the American Horticultural Society Book Award. She has written for The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. She appears regularly on radio and TV, and in 2014 copresented British Gardens in Time, a four-part series on BBC television.
www.andreawulf.com
洪堡是西方近現代最後一位通纔,興趣廣泛筆耕不輟,他的熱血都獻給瞭冒險和研究。作者聰明之處在於行文貫徹瞭主人公所信奉的整體論和萬物互聯的觀點,所以這本書不僅僅迴顧瞭這位德國博學傢的傳奇一生(在正文三分之二的地方洪堡就死瞭),還穿插著他對前輩(歌德)、同輩人(例如玻利瓦爾)和後來者(例如達爾文、梭羅、約翰·繆爾)的深遠影響。作者對於洪堡的性取嚮處理相對模糊,但從給齣的信息來分析,應該是柏拉圖式的同性戀者或是精神偏好男性的無性戀者。
評分百科全書式學者的消失並不是偶然的,自然科學的演化已經超越瞭觀察和經驗所及,所以洪堡本人也算是最後之人吧。作者花瞭很多筆墨描寫洪堡的社交圈和影響力,大概也是想強調洪堡的個例性,最後200頁的索引真心佩服。下一步要把Cosmos找齣來讀讀。
評分如今是個崇尚專纔多於全纔的時代。
評分主題一以貫之的洪堡傳記,可看作通往洪堡著作的引子
評分Every poet has trembled on the verge of science
这本书买了一年之久,终于在疫情之间断断续续的读完了。合上书想的最多的就是人与自然的关系,像一个闭合的圆,起点终点连在一起,因果相关,我们影响自然的同时也被自然影响着。 洪堡的一生都在追求在自然中探索真理,发现自然的美,保护自然。也许每个时代都是如此,通过认真...
評分书名小识 不像哥伦布或牛顿,洪堡没有发现一片新大陆或物理学上的新定律。他不是以某一项事实或发现著称的,而是以他的世界观;他的自然之观点已经渗透到了我们每个人的意识之中。 不像从小就知道大仲马和小仲马的区别,在没有读本书之前,我一直以为洪堡是一位地理学家兼语言...
評分如果不是因缘巧合或者是冥冥之中自有天意,自己应该不会看到这本书。想当一个和洪堡一样纯粹的人,又怀疑这种纯粹是不是也是“天选之子”的幸运。 就内容来讲,主要着重描写洪堡行走南美探索热带自然种种,真的是用脚丈量,用手描绘奇异世界(对比想到现在的各种科技真的是为科...
評分先简单说下这本书吧。这本书是应当下的环保和全球变暖的问题而作,当下流行的自然观即万物都是相连的,没有所谓的自然和社会之间的区别,自然是一个万物息息相关的有机体。比如Lovelock的Gaia,Wulf一再重复现在流行的这些观点洪堡早就提出来,并用其一生去证明earth as a livi...
評分1827年冬,五十八岁的亚历山大·冯·洪堡在新建不久的柏林大学开办讲座,半年内不重样讲了七十七场,天文与诗歌,地质与风景画,火山,极光,地球磁场,气象学,人的迁徙,动植物分布……所有讲座无偿向社会大众开放,皇室贵族跟他们的仆役成了同学,学者专家与贩夫走卒抢座,...
The Invention of Nature pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024