Katonah, NY: BlueBridge, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of the most famous scientist and explorer of his day. From Humboldt Redwoods State Park in California to South Americas Humboldt Current to Greenlands Humboldt Glacier, numerous places, plants, and animals around the world are named after him. For five years, from 1799 to 1804, he traveled through Central and South America with his collaborator, the French botanist Aim Bonpland - on foot, by boat, and with mules. He handed down a radically new vision of science: one that has its roots in Romanticism. In his understanding, nature is not just an object, separate from us, to be prodded and measured, but something to which we have a deep, sensual affinity, and where the human mind must turn if it wants to truly come to understand itself. Illustrated. Notes, index. 274 pp. ISBN: 978-1629190198.