I've read The Invention of Nature twice, and as a geographer, I'd like to say Thank you to Andrea Wulf for this amazing masterpiece. Humboldt has been by far the reason why I studied a BSc in Geography, he has given me the tools and the knowledge I need and he also has given me the inspiration to continue on this wonderful path.
One of the most extraordinary lectures about the scientific Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt! Thank you for sharing this and congratulations to Andrea Wulf for having dedicated great research and efforts on the life of this great human being and his contributions to science. Andrea´s published book contributes with the legacy of Humboldt and incentives all of us to move forward not only with science but with conservation and a more sustainable planet.
What a beautiful and wonderful book Andrea Wulf has written, I am a student as well as a teacher of Geography, also I enjoyed it because I am a M.A in English literature and Humboldt was read by the lake district poets of England namely the Romantics Wordsworth, Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge who were very happy that a scientist had not only found in nature objectivity but also subjectivity ,saw a " web of life" not only taxonomical zones being a student of French language I was pleased that he found Paris a centre of liberal sciences,and now particularly of environmentalism and naturalism having read " The sixth extinction " by Elizabeth Kolbet, and three books on the best of American writing in Science and Nature ,I find it really exciting to rediscover Alexander von Humboldt, and his contribution to Environmental sciences.To know that he was the pioneer in 1800 century itself, to propound the theory of man induced extinction that is now taking place unbridled.
I am just finding out about this guy.........quite amazing and I'm going to do a lot more studying of what this man has done historically. Listening to this lecture stirs my mind, I'm thinking 'this guy's way of thinking is not a lot different than mine?' and know for myself I get in trouble at every turn in the road today for way I think about society, religion, culture, environment etc. etc. So I can't help but think how Alexander would cope in today's world of 8 billion humans polluting, poisoning, tearing apart the ecosystem and at war with all wildlife (causing extinction of millions of species) - so what would Alexander do in a society like we have today? Would he and I agree world is overpopulated? Would Alexander be in line with the thinking of all our 'not so great' leaders of today whereby they only can see 'growth' as solution to societies woes? Yah, I'd love to have a dinner conversation with this man and I think we'd both end up at end of dinner drunk, seeing no solution for what homo sapiens have done to the world today other than blowing our brains out?
The reason of my question is for he was the man who changed, altered, distorted, alienated, anagrammed thousands of names, titles, geographical toponyms, cultures, peoples, botnay, and so on which already existed in the local language for hundreds of years (if not thousands) before his arrival into unknown forms which are the names today we know in Latin, English, Spanish, German. This is a great job that can only be done by Jesuits. Thanks in advance for your kindness to answer my question. Regards,
Dear @uklum, "A man's lethal work can wipe out great history of a gigantic civilization just by changing original names and titles - as we have seen so many times in so-called history written by Westerners." I really don't think that I have shown any sort of disposition towards any ideology, I can hardly understand how you have come up with such a baseless conclusion. I did not say a word in any ideology but instead I just asked a simple question based on some true facts. von Humboldt did a great job - this is indisputable, unquestionable! He absolutely proved to be a man greater than a gigantic civilization. But why did he change, alter, alienate the original / local names and titles? What was his purpose in that? If he did not change them we would know the origins of the American peoples today. He just wiped out them all! And you should know it better than most of us, am I wrong?
@uklum no, not that simple. Civilizations don't come and go. Carthaginians didn't go. Etruscans are still here around us. Phoenicians and Sumerians and Egyptians as well. They didn't go anywhere! Mayans and Incas are with us. Aztecans are there I can hear them. My eyes are wide open and I can see them all. Alexander von Humboldt could not win the battle at the end! The truth is this: some secretive dark hands change names of peoples and titles of kings just for identity theft. They aren't aware of the fact that nothing lasts forever. Its a cycle and repeating in turns. A dark age will come to its end soon. Horus will bring the Sun God again. Its gonna be a longish age even perhaps longer than this dark one. I assume it to be some 3500 years at the minimum. There will be no von Humboldts no identity thieves then. Anything stolen in the dark era will be handed back to its original owners. And believe me its sooner than you can imagine.
I've read The Invention of Nature twice, and as a geographer, I'd like to say Thank you to Andrea Wulf for this amazing masterpiece. Humboldt has been by far the reason why I studied a BSc in Geography, he has given me the tools and the knowledge I need and he also has given me the inspiration to continue on this wonderful path.
We are so happy to hear that Humboldt has been an inspiration to you, as well! Best wishes to you and your journey as a geographer!
One of the most extraordinary lectures about the scientific Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt! Thank you for sharing this and congratulations to Andrea Wulf for having dedicated great research and efforts on the life of this great human being and his contributions to science. Andrea´s published book contributes with the legacy of Humboldt and incentives all of us to move forward not only with science but with conservation and a more sustainable planet.
What a wonderful moment at the end of this video. A exquisite presentation about an extraordinary man by an exceptional author and speaker.
What a beautiful and wonderful book Andrea Wulf has written, I am a student as well as a teacher of Geography, also I enjoyed it because I am a M.A in English literature and Humboldt was read by the lake district poets of England namely the Romantics Wordsworth, Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge who were very happy that a scientist had not only found in nature objectivity but also subjectivity ,saw a " web of life" not only taxonomical zones being a student of French language I was pleased that he found Paris a centre of liberal sciences,and now particularly of environmentalism and naturalism having read " The sixth extinction " by Elizabeth Kolbet, and three books on the best of American writing in Science and Nature ,I find it really exciting to rediscover Alexander von Humboldt, and his contribution to Environmental sciences.To know that he was the pioneer in 1800 century itself, to propound the theory of man induced extinction that is now taking place unbridled.
I am just finding out about this guy.........quite amazing and I'm going to do a lot more studying of what this man has done historically. Listening to this lecture stirs my mind, I'm thinking 'this guy's way of thinking is not a lot different than mine?' and know for myself I get in trouble at every turn in the road today for way I think about society, religion, culture, environment etc. etc. So I can't help but think how Alexander would cope in today's world of 8 billion humans polluting, poisoning, tearing apart the ecosystem and at war with all wildlife (causing extinction of millions of species) - so what would Alexander do in a society like we have today? Would he and I agree world is overpopulated? Would Alexander be in line with the thinking of all our 'not so great' leaders of today whereby they only can see 'growth' as solution to societies woes? Yah, I'd love to have a dinner conversation with this man and I think we'd both end up at end of dinner drunk, seeing no solution for what homo sapiens have done to the world today other than blowing our brains out?
I need Korean subtitles.
One solution might be to download the English subtitles using downsub.com/ and then using google translate on it.
thank u
Was he a Jesuit mission?
The reason of my question is for he was the man who changed, altered, distorted, alienated, anagrammed thousands of names, titles, geographical toponyms, cultures, peoples, botnay, and so on which already existed in the local language for hundreds of years (if not thousands) before his arrival into unknown forms which are the names today we know in Latin, English, Spanish, German. This is a great job that can only be done by Jesuits. Thanks in advance for your kindness to answer my question. Regards,
@uklum is this Andrea?
Dear @uklum, "A man's lethal work can wipe out great history of a gigantic civilization just by changing original names and titles - as we have seen so many times in so-called history written by Westerners."
I really don't think that I have shown any sort of disposition towards any ideology, I can hardly understand how you have come up with such a baseless conclusion. I did not say a word in any ideology but instead I just asked a simple question based on some true facts.
von Humboldt did a great job - this is indisputable, unquestionable! He absolutely proved to be a man greater than a gigantic civilization. But why did he change, alter, alienate the original / local names and titles? What was his purpose in that?
If he did not change them we would know the origins of the American peoples today. He just wiped out them all!
And you should know it better than most of us, am I wrong?
@uklum no, not that simple. Civilizations don't come and go. Carthaginians didn't go. Etruscans are still here around us. Phoenicians and Sumerians and Egyptians as well. They didn't go anywhere! Mayans and Incas are with us. Aztecans are there I can hear them. My eyes are wide open and I can see them all. Alexander von Humboldt could not win the battle at the end! The truth is this: some secretive dark hands change names of peoples and titles of kings just for identity theft. They aren't aware of the fact that nothing lasts forever. Its a cycle and repeating in turns. A dark age will come to its end soon. Horus will bring the Sun God again. Its gonna be a longish age even perhaps longer than this dark one. I assume it to be some 3500 years at the minimum. There will be no von Humboldts no identity thieves then. Anything stolen in the dark era will be handed back to its original owners. And believe me its sooner than you can imagine.
A great thief :)
Why do you say that?
Completely disregards the fact that this was all knowledge Indigenous people held for many, many years prior to Humboldt.