Humboldt and the British: A note on the character of British science

Annals of Science 50 (4):365-372 (1993)
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Through his Romanticism, aesthetics, ‘religiosity’, the escapism which he offered urban readers, and the appeal that his search for unification, order, association, and simplicity had during a period of growing cultural fragmentation, Humboldt's translated writings asserted their magic on Regency and early Victorian lay and scientific minds

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Journal of researches.Charles Darwin - 1839 - New York: New York University Press.
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