Alexander von Humboldt

At the one end we find people of the highest intellectual distinction, such as Alexander von Humboldt, whom Näcke, a cautious investigator, stated that he had good ground for regarding as an invert. [

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

For a sustained dose of inspiration toward that end, a would-be naturalist can fill a Kindle with enough 99-cent natural-history classics—by Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Alexander von Humboldt—to last years.

Gift Guide: Best of Science Jennie Erin Smith 2011

There have been writers, such as the hugely influential German explorer Alexander von Humboldt, who have instilled in their readers a feeling of constant wonder in the face of nature; and there have been those, such as Laurie Lee, acutely alert to the fullness and beauty of life.

It's too soon to wave goodbye to the magical art of travel writing | Michael Jacobs 2011

Then, beginning in the 18th century, European scientists such as Charles Marie de La Condamine and Alexander von Humboldt ventured into the Amazon, taking only measurements and specimens.

The Last Tribes Standing Gerard Helferich 2011

"Mexico is the country of inequality," the German traveler and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt wrote in the early 1800s.

A Rags-to-Riches Career Highlights Latin Resurgence Matt Moffett 2011

The German scientist Alexander von Humboldt, after traveling through Mexico in 1803, called it the country of inequality.

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

The German scientist Alexander von Humboldt, after traveling through Mexico in 1803, called it the country of inequality.

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

During his early-nineteenth-century explorations of South America, Alexander von Humboldt heard a parrot speaking a dead language.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

But when the British “seduced” the tribes to side with them during the war of 1812, “to take up the hatchet against us, and [commit] cruel massacres . . . on the women and children of our frontiers taken by surprise,” Jefferson explained to his correspondent, the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, the United States was “oblige[d] to pursue them to extermination, or drive them to new seats beyond our reach.”

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

But when the British “seduced” the tribes to side with them during the war of 1812, “to take up the hatchet against us, and [commit] cruel massacres . . . on the women and children of our frontiers taken by surprise,” Jefferson explained to his correspondent, the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, the United States was “oblige[d] to pursue them to extermination, or drive them to new seats beyond our reach.”

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010