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
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.
安德烈亚 武尔夫的发现自然,讲述了亚历山大 冯 洪堡的科学发展之旅。以旅行与思想的格式编排了整本书的架构,按照出发:新生的想法,到达:收集想法,归途:整理想法,影响:传播想法,新世界:想法的演化架构了整本书。这个结构自己很是喜欢,仿佛人生就是自然,思想以及人的...
评分书名小识 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...
评分1 1831年12 月27日, 22岁的查尔斯·达尔文乘坐“小猎犬”号帆船从英国朴茨茅斯港出发,开始了环球航行。他随身的行李中有一套洪堡记述南美洲探险的七卷本《旅行故事》。 达尔文后来说,“出于对这部著名游记的仰慕之情,我决定去游历那些遥远的国度,并最终志愿登上女王陛下的...
评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...
评分非常精彩的传记,不只是关于洪堡的故事,更是洪堡与他同时代的人们共同的故事。倾情于自然的灵魂总是相互吸引。 洪堡生活的时代,正值工业革命兴起,科学蓬勃发展,这也是浪漫主义诗人柯勒律治哀叹“割裂与分离的时代”,人们正在丧失“关联万物的理解力”。 柯勒律治认为:问...
年轻的洪堡痴迷于animal electricity的研究,用手术刀在自己的手臂和大腿上割开,撒上各种化学试剂接上电极,仔细记录下电流通过时感官体验的区别…… 和用电击shock的程度比较电流的大小的卡文迪许有的一拼。传说中的科学狂人都是历史上真实存在的啊!
评分像讲某个人的故事,串起来,看不下去
评分洪堡是西方近现代最后一位通才,兴趣广泛笔耕不辍,他的热血都献给了冒险和研究。作者聪明之处在于行文贯彻了主人公所信奉的整体论和万物互联的观点,所以这本书不仅仅回顾了这位德国博学家的传奇一生(在正文三分之二的地方洪堡就死了),还穿插着他对前辈(歌德)、同辈人(例如玻利瓦尔)和后来者(例如达尔文、梭罗、约翰·缪尔)的深远影响。作者对于洪堡的性取向处理相对模糊,但从给出的信息来分析,应该是柏拉图式的同性恋者或是精神偏好男性的无性恋者。
评分百科全书式学者的消失并不是偶然的,自然科学的演化已经超越了观察和经验所及,所以洪堡本人也算是最后之人吧。作者花了很多笔墨描写洪堡的社交圈和影响力,大概也是想强调洪堡的个例性,最后200页的索引真心佩服。下一步要把Cosmos找出来读读。
评分一部以关键人物为核心的通俗概念史,把洪堡的人生围绕“自然”或者说整体相联系的生态系统这个核心概念进行了裁剪。最享受的部分反倒不是读洪堡本人的经历,而是读到达尔文因为读到了洪堡的游记才踏上小猎犬号,然后在热带雨林里兴奋地写信回家说看到了洪堡去过的热带
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