In this video, Andrea Wulf speaks about her book The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldts New World in which she reveals the extraordinary life of .
View full lesson: Have you heard of Alexander von Humboldt? Not likely. The geologist .
Alexander von Humboldt was one of the last big explorers and polymath. Living in the time of the Industrial Revolution, Humboldt adapted the idea of .
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the .