Editing Alexander von Humboldt (section)

==Further reading==
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* {{cite journal |last=Ackerknecht |first=Erwin H. |title=George Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, and Ethnology |journal=Isis |issue=2 |year=1955 |volume=46 |pages=83–95|doi=10.1086/348401 |pmid=13242231 | issn=0021-1753}}
* {{cite book |last=Botting |first=Douglas |title=Humboldt and the Cosmos |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row Publishers |year=1973}}
* {{cite book |authorlink=Jorge Canizares-Esguerra|last=Cañizares-Esguerra |first=Jorge |chapter=How Derivative was Humboldt? |title=Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World |editor-first1=Londa |editor-last1=Schiebinger |editor-first2=Claudia |editor-last2=Swan |pages=148–165 |location=Philadelphia |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |year=2005}}
* {{cite journal |last=Chambers |first=David Wade |title=Centre Looks at Periphery: Alexander von Humboldt's Account of Mexican Science and Technology |journal=Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies |issue=1 |year=1996 |volume=2 |pages=94–113|doi=10.1080/13260219.1996.10431806 | issn=1326-0219}}
* {{cite book |editor-last1=Covarrubias |editor-first1=José E |editor-first2= Matilde |editor-last2=Souto Mantecón |title=Economia, ciencia, y política: Estudios sobre Alexander von Humboldt a 200 aňos del ensayo político sobre el reino de la Nueva España |location=Mexico |publisher=Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |year=2012 |language=es-mx}}
* {{cite book |last=Dettlebach |first=Michael |chapter=Humboldtian Science |title=Cultures of Natural History |editor1=Nicholas Jardin |editor2=J.A. Secord |editor3=Emma C. Spary |pages=287–304 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1996}}
* {{cite book | last=Echenberg | first=Myron J. | title=Humboldt's Mexico: In the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific Traveller | publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP | publication-place=Montreal & Kingston | date=2017 | isbn=978-0-7735-4940-1 | oclc=964328973}}
* {{cite journal |last=Foner |first=Philip S. |title=Alexander von Humboldt on Slavery in America |journal=Science and Society |issue=47 |year=1983 |pages=330–342}}
* {{cite book |last=Godlewska |first=Anne |chapter=From Enlightenment Vision to Modern Science? Humboldt's Visual Thinking |title=Geography and Enlightenment |editor1=David N. Livingstone |editor2=Charles W. J. Withers |pages=236–275 |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1999}}
* {{cite book |last=Gould |first=Stephen Jay |chapter=Church, Humboldt, and Darwin: The Tension and Harmony of Art and Science |editor=Franklin Kelly |display-editors=etal |title=Frederic Edwin Church |location=Washington D.C. |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press |year=1989}}
* {{cite book | authorlink=Eleanor Jones Harvey | last=Harvey | first=Eleanor Jones | title=Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture | publisher=Princeton University Press | publication-place=Washington, DC | date=2020-04-14 | isbn=978-0-691-20080-4}}
* {{cite journal |last=Hey'l |first=Bettina |title=Das Ganze der Natur und die Differenzierung des Wissens. Alexander von Humboldt als Schriftsteller |location=Berlin |publisher=de Gruyter |year=2007 |journal=Quellen und Forschungen zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte |issue=47 |page=281 |language=de}}
* {{cite book |last=Holl |first=Frank |chapter=Alexander von Humboldt's Expedition through Mexico |title=European Traveler-Artists in Nineteenth-Century Mexico |location=Mexico |publisher=Fomento Cultural Banamex |year=1996 |pages=51–61}}
* Holl, Frank, ed. ''Alejandro de Humboldt en México''. Mexico City 1997.
* Kellner, Lotte. ''Alexander von Humboldt''. New York: Oxford University Press 1963.
* {{cite book |last=Kiziak |first=Frederik L. |title=Alexander von Humboldt und Thaddäus Haenke. Reisetagebücher über Südamerika |location=Munich |publisher=GRIN Verlag |year=2021 |isbn= 978-3-346-69180-4 |language=de}}
* [[Ursula Klein|Klein, Ursula]]. ''Humboldts Preußen. Wissenschaft und Technik im Aufbruch''. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2015.
* {{cite book |last=Korneffel |first=Peter |title=Die Humboldts in Berlin: Zwei Brüder erfinden die Gelehrtenrepublik |publisher=Elsengold Verlag GmbH |year=2017 |isbn=978-3-944594-77-4}}
* [[Vera Kutzinski|Kutzinski, Vera M.]] ''Alexander von Humboldt's Transatlantic Personae''. New York: Routledge 2012.
* Lara Valdés, José Luis, ed. ''Bicentenario de Humboldt en Guanajuato (1803–2003)''. Guanajuato: Ediciones de la Rana 2003.
* {{cite book |last1=Leibsohn |first1=Dana |first2=Barbara E. |last2=Mundy |chapter=Making Sense of the Pre-Columbian |title=Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520–1820 |year=2015 |chapter-url=https://vistas.ace.fordham.edu/themes/pre-columbian-images-08/ |url=http://www.fordham.edu/vistas}}
* {{cite book |authorlink=William Macgillivray|last=Macgillivray |first=William |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/77447 |title=The travels and researches of Alexander von Humboldt by W. Macgillivray; with a narrative of Humboldt's most recent researches |location=New York |publisher=J & J Harper |year=1833 | doi=10.5962/bhl.title.33029}}
* {{cite book |last=Novgorodoff |first=Danica |title=Alexander Von Humboldt: Explorer, Naturalist & Environmental Pioneer |location=New York |publisher=Crown |year=2022}}
* {{cite book |first=W. |last=Macgillivray |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63302 |title=The travels and researches of Alexander von Humboldt: being a condensed narrative of his journeys in the equinoctial regions of America, and in Asiatic Russia: together with analysis of his more important investigations |publisher=J. & J. Harper | publication-place=New York, N.Y | year=1833 | doi=10.5962/bhl.title.22635}}
* McCrory, Donald. ''Nature's Interpreter: The Life and Times of Alexander von Humboldt''. London: Lutterworth 2010.
* [[David McCullough|McCullough, David]]. ''[[Brave Companions: Portraits in History]]'', Chapter 1, "[Humboldt's] Journey to the Top of the World" New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1992.
* {{cite book |last=Meinhardt |first=Maren |title=A longing for wide and unknown things : the life of Alexander von Humboldt |location=London |publisher=Hurst & Company |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-84904-890-3}}
* {{cite book |last=Miranda |first=José |title=Humboldt y México |location=Mexico City |publisher=Instituto de Historia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |year=1962}}
* Nelken, Halina. ''Alexander von Humboldt. His Portraits and their Artists. A Documentary Iconography''. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag 1980.
* Ortega y Medina, Juan A. ''Humboldt desde México''. Mexico City: UNAM 1960.
* Ortega y Medina, Juan A. "Humboldt visto por los mexicanos" in Jorge A. Vivó Escoto, ed. ''Ensayos sobre Humboldt'', pp.&nbsp;237–258. Mexico City: UNAM 1962.
* {{cite journal | last1=Pausas | first1=Juli G. | last2=Bond | first2=William J. | title=Humboldt and the reinvention of nature | journal=Journal of Ecology | volume=107 | issue=3 | date=2019 | issn=0022-0477 | doi=10.1111/1365-2745.13109 | pages=1031–1037| bibcode=2019JEcol.107.1031P | hdl=10261/182537 | hdl-access=free }}
* {{cite journal |authorlink=Eloise Quiñones Keber|last=Quiñones Keber |first=Eloise |title=Humboldt and Aztec Art |journal=Colonial Latin American Review |volume=5 |issue=2 |year=1996 |pages=277–297|doi=10.1080/10609169608569894 }}
* {{cite journal |authorlink=Nathaniel Rich (novelist)|last=Rich |first=Nathaniel |title=The Very Great Alexander von Humboldt" (review of {{harvnb|Wulf|2015}} and [[Jedediah Purdy]], ''After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene'', Harvard University Press, 2015, 326 pp.) |journal=[[The New York Review of Books]] |volume=LXII |issue=16 |date=22 October 2015 |pages=37–39}}
* {{cite web|last=Rooks|first=Timothy|title=How Alexander von Humboldt put South America on the map|date=12 July 2019|access-date=6 April 2021|publisher=[[Deutsche Welle]]|url=https://www.dw.com/en/how-scientist-alexander-von-humboldt-put-spanish-south-america-on-the-global-map/a-46693502|ref=none}}
*{{cite book |editor-last1=Zea |editor-first1=Leopoldo |editor-first2=Carlos |editor-last2=Magallón |title=Humboldt en México |location=Mexico City |publisher=Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |year=1999}}
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===Literary works===
* [[Daniel Kehlmann]]'s 2005 novel ''Die Vermessung der Welt'', translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway as ''[[Measuring the World]]'' in 2006, explores Humboldt's life through the lens of historical fiction, contrasting his character and contributions to science with those of [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]].

===Portrayals in film===

*[[Werner Herzog]] portrays Humboldt in [[Edgar Reitz]]'s 2013 film ''[[Home from Home (2013 film)|Home from Home]]''.
*[[Measuring the World (film)|Measuring the World]] is a 2012 German / Austrian 3D film directed by [[Detlev Buck]] and was released in 2012 based on the [[Measuring the World|eponymous novel]] by [[Daniel Kehlmann]].
*Climbing the Chimborazo (Ascenso al volcán Chimborazo) (1989), a film directed by [[Rainer Simon]].