Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Humboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859)
Titre(s) : Views of nature [Texte imprimé] / Alexander von Humboldt ; edited by Stephen T. Jackson and Laura Dassow Walls
Traduction de : Ansichten der Natur
Publication : Chicago (Ill.) ; London : University of Chicago press, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-313 p.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Editor's note ; Introduction: reclaiming consilience ; Translator's note ; Humboldt's
Ansichten der Natur measurement units ; Views of Nature ; Preface to the first edition
; Preface to the second and third editions ; Concerning the steppes and deserts
; Concerning the waterfalls of the Orinoco near Atures and Maypures ; The nocturnal
wildlife of the primeval forest ; Hypsometric addenda ; Ideas for a physiognomy
of plants ; Concerning the structure and action of volcanoes in various regions of
the Earth ; The life force, or the Rhodian genius ; The plateau of Cajamarca, the
old residential city of the Inca Atahualpa; first sight of the Pacific from the ridge
of the Andes chain.
Note(s) : Editor's note -- Introduction: reclaiming consilience -- Translator's note -- Hamboldt's
Ansichten der Natur measurement units -- Views of Nature -- Preface to the first edition
-- Preface to the second and third editions -- Concerning the steppes and deserts
-- Concerning the waterfalls of the Orinoco near Atures and Maypures -- The nocturnal
wildlife of the primeval forest -- Hypsometric addenda -- Ideas for a physiognomy
of plants -- Concerning the structure and action of volcanoes in various regions of
the Earth -- The life force, or the Rhodian genius -- The plateau of Cajamarca, the
old residential city of the Inca Atahualpa; first sight of the Pacific from the ridge
of the Andes chain. - Notes bibliogr. Index
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Jackson, Stephen T. (1955-....). Éditeur scientifique
Walls, Laura Dassow (1955-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Sciences naturelles
Géographie physique
Indice(s) Dewey :
508 (23e éd.) = Histoire naturelle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226923185. - ISBN 0226923185 (rel.). - ISBN 9780226923192. - ISBN 0226923193
(ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44380233q
Notice n° :
FRBNF44380233
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
