![]() The man may be lost but his ideas have never been more alive. “It is almost as though his ideas have become so manifest that the man behind them has disappeared.” Wulf’s book is as much a history of those ideas as it is of the man. “Alexander von Humboldt has been largely forgotten in the English-speaking world,” writes Andrea Wulf in her thrilling new biography. The Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) is all around us. Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk, the Humboldt penguin, the Humboldt squid, and more than a hundred other animal species Humboldt’s Lily, Humboldt’s Schomburgkia, and three hundred other plant species the minerals Humboldtit, Humboldtilith, and Humboldtin Humboldt Limestone, Humboldt Oolite, the Humboldt Formation, the Humboldt Current Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt Mont Humboldt, Humboldt Mountain, Humboldt Peak, and Humboldt ranges in China, South Africa, and Antarctica Humboldt Falls, Humboldt Glacier, Humboldt Bay, the Humboldt River, the Humboldt Sink, the Humboldt Salt Marsh four Humboldt counties and thirteen Humboldt towns in North America alone, the Humboldt crater and Mare Humboldtianum on the moon, and asteroid 54 Alexandra, orbiting the sun. ![]() Museo de la Ciudad de México/Gianni Dagli Orti/Art Archive/Art Resource ![]()
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