Episode
Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 2: Humboldt's Dangerous Idea
COMPLEXITY · Jun 4, 2021 · 49 min
The 19th Century saw many transformations: the origins of ecology and modern climatology, new unifying theories of the living world, the first Big Science projects, revolutions in the Spanish colonies, new information systems for the storage and representation of data… Many of these can be traced back to the influence of one singular explorer, Alexander von Humboldt. Humboldt was one of the last…
