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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of ...

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of ...

Alexander von Humboldt

The Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was one of the most famous explorers of his generation.
Political Essay on the Island of Cuba: A Critical Edition

Political Essay on the Island of Cuba: A Critical Edition

Alexander von Humboldt

The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas in the early 19th century proved foundational to the fields of botany and geology.
Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander Von Humboldt and the Latin ...

Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander Von Humboldt and the Latin ...

Gerard Helferich

Humboldt’s Cosmos tells the story of this extraordinary man who was equal parts Einstein and Livingstone, and of the adventure that defined his life.
Germany and the Americas: O - Z.

Germany and the Americas: O - Z.

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... Adelung, Johann Christoph; Humboldt, Alexander von; Vater, Johann Severin References and Further Reading Humboldt, Wilhelm von. Gesammelte Schriften. ... April 21, 1488; Burg Steckelberg (Rhön) d.August 29, 1523; Ufenau Island in ...
Alexander Von Humboldt: A Metabiography

Alexander Von Humboldt: A Metabiography

Nicolaas A. Rupke

This volume traces Humboldt's biographical identities through Germany's collective past to shed light on the historical instability of our scientific heroes.
Cosmos: Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe

Cosmos: Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe

Alexander von Humboldt

Investigating the relationship between the 'general and the special' in nature, Humboldt's Cosmos constitutes an original contribution to modern science.
Alexander von Humboldt's Translantic Personae

Alexander von Humboldt's Translantic Personae

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... formaking this event possible. The editor also wishes especially tothank William Boelhower. 27 Ette writes mainly in German, French, and Spanish, and little ofhis work on Humboldt is available in English.Oneexception is Katharina Vester« ...
Jaguars and Electric Eels

Jaguars and Electric Eels

Alexander von Humboldt

Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
Poland China World

Poland China World

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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ...

Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ...

British Association for the Advancement of Science

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The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to ...

The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to ...

Deborah R. Coen

In The Earthquake Observers, Deborah R. Coen acquaints readers not only with the century’s most eloquent seismic commentators, including Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Karl Kraus, Ernst Mach, John ...
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark ...

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark ...

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514-423.000. von Jena, Alexander: See — Ruaswurm, Winfried; and von Jena, Alexander, 5,372,047, CI. ... Waldron, James C: See- Hart, George L.; McCluer, Edwin L.; Rozner, Alexander G Walton, William R.; and Waldron, James G, 5.372  ...
Kinder und Krieg: Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart

Kinder und Krieg: Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart

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HZ HEIDET F & Alexander Denzler, Stefan Grüner und Markus Raasch (Hrsg.) Kinder und Krieg Von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart Mit Beiträgen von Alexander Denzler, Stefan Grüner, Markus Raasch, Andreas Hartmann, Alexander Berner, ...
Penguin's Family: The Story of a Humboldt Penguin

Penguin's Family: The Story of a Humboldt Penguin

Kathleen M. Hollenbeck

Baby Penguin is cared for by his parents and learns to fish for himself off the coast of Peru. Includes brief notes on Humboldt penguins.
Die Vereinigung Deutschlands - ein weltpolitisches ...

Die Vereinigung Deutschlands - ein weltpolitisches ...

Alexander von Plato

Bush, Kohl, Gorbatschow und die internen Gesprächsprotokolle Alexander von Plato. 3. Gorbatschow. und. die. »sowjetische. Vaterschaft«. der. DDR. 3.1 »Mach weiter so, Erich« oder »Gorbi, rette uns« – Gorbatschow, die DDR-Führung und ...
Opposition als Lebensform: Dissidenz in der DDR, der ČSSR ...

Opposition als Lebensform: Dissidenz in der DDR, der ČSSR ...

Alexander von Plato

Dissidenz in der DDR, der ČSSR und in Polen Alexander von Plato, Tomáš Vilímek, Piotr Filipkowski, Joanna Wawrzyniak. Václav Vaško, Diplomat, politischer Häftling und katholischer Aktivist. Befasste sich mit der Geschichte der  ...
Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of ...

Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of ...

David K. Frasier

... Troutman, Larry 321–22; Tucker, E. William 322–23; Vega, Carlos 325–26; Villasenor, Edgar Ricardo 329; Villechaize, Herve 329–30; Vollman, William 331; Von Erich, Chris 332; Von Erich, Kerry 333; von Kreisler, Alexander 333–34; Wade ...
A Short History of Linguistics

A Short History of Linguistics

R.H. Robins

The fourth edition of A Short History of Linguistics gives a greater prominence to the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt, because of the lasting importance of his work on language in relation to general eighteenth century thinking and of its ...
Trierer theologische Zeitschrift

Trierer theologische Zeitschrift

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R. Bohlen, Trier GROSSER BILDFÜHRER ZUR BIBEL, hrsg. von Caroline Masom und Pat Alexander; archäologische Anmerkungen von Alan Millard, Gießen/Basel: Brunnen-Verlag. 1987. 192 Seiten, Großformat, durchgehend farbig, 58, ...
Social Register, Summer

Social Register, Summer

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Allgemeine Enzyklopädie Der Wissenschaften und Künste: In ...

Allgemeine Enzyklopädie Der Wissenschaften und Künste: In ...

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Linie zu Steckelberg.l Da, wo sich der Spessart mit der Rhön verknüpft und die Quellen der Kinzig fließen, ... Alexander erwarb durch seine Frau, die Tochter Kaspars von Gelnhausen, ansehnliche Güter; von dessen Söhnen starb Wolf Ludwig ...

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