Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography.

Humboldt's passion for travel was confirmed by a friendship formed at Göttingen with Georg Forster, Heyne's son-in-law and the companion of Captain James Cook on Cook's second voyage.

Indeed, the new king's craving for Humboldt's company became at times so importunate as to leave him only a few waking hours to work on his writing.

James W. Underhill, a modern Humboldtian scholar, attempts to reestablish Wilhelm von Humboldt's concern for the different ways languages frame reality, and the strategies individuals adopt in creatively resisting and modifying existing patterns of thought.

* Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift

The oilbird's scientific name, Steatornis caripensis, means ' fat-bearing bird of Caripe '; the squabs were harvested by the local Indians in Humboldt's time, and rendered for oil.

Church was inspired by the Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt's Cosmos and his exploration of the continent ; Humboldt had challenged artists to portray the " physiognomy " of the Andes.

Chomsky frequently quotes Humboldt's description of language as a system which " makes infinite use of finite means ", meaning that an infinite number of sentences can be created using a finite number of grammatical rules.

Some of Humboldt's descriptions or assumptions were not accurate.

After the second raid the threats to Humboldt's safety were taken very seriously.

Baron Humboldt's letters to Bunsen were printed in 1869.

He also read Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative, and the two books were immensely influential, stirring up in him " a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science.

However, some 6, 000 historical works were saved, including the 1534 Luther Bible and a collection of Alexander von Humboldt's papers, by being passed hand-over-hand out of the building.

Humboldt was a philosopher and wrote On the Limits of State Action in 1791-2 ( though it was not published until 1850, after Humboldt's death ), one of the boldest defences of the liberties of the Enlightenment.

The most ambitious literary tribute to Schwartz came in 1975 when Saul Bellow, a one-time protégé of Schwartz's, published his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Humboldt's Gift which was based on his relationship with Schwartz.

In collaboration with Charles Galusky he translated Humboldt's Cosmos ( four volumes, 1846 – 59 ), and, in addition to numerous contributions to scientific periodicals, published the following important works:

Lilium humboldtii ( Humboldt's lily ) is a species of lily endemic to California named after naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

Humboldt's work was concerned more with what he called Weltansicht, the linguistic worldview.

Alexander von Humboldt's Latin American expeditionArmed with powerful recommendations from the King of Spain, they sailed in the Pizarro from A Coruña, on June 5, 1799, stopped six days on the island of Tenerife to climb the volcano Teide, and landed at Cumaná, Venezuela, on July 16.

His Humboldt's Gift ( 1975 ), is about his friendship with the poet Delmore Schwartz.

This meta-data translates into a topography of Humboldt's historical narrative, tagged, visually and semantically connecting clusters of text to one shared screen ( FLATBOOK ), collated with contemporary videos from Venezuela and Cuba by H | u | m | b | o † authors ( FLATMOVIE ).

But his association with the Republican cause led to his official stipends being revoked, despite Humboldt's tenaciously coming to his defense.

On the voyage to Java, Jack has with him a chart showing Alexander von Humboldt's maximum and minimum sea-temperatures over a vast stretch of ocean.

Instead, Voloshinov's theories are built on critical engagement with Wilhelm von Humboldt's concept of language as a continuous creative or ' generative ' process, and with the view of language as a sign-system posited by Ferdinand de Saussure.

Humboldt's Ideal was an education based on individuality, creativity, wholeness, and versatility.

Also, since the Humboldt's water comes almost exclusively from snowmelt, its flow is highly variable from season to season ( peak flow occurs during the spring melt ) and from year to year ( depending on the amount of snow every winter )

Saul Bellow was deliberately unkind to him when he based the snob figure of the critic Sewell on him in the novel Humboldt's Gift ( 1975 ).

Many later authors preferred to use the name Phalacrocorax olivaceus based on Alexander von Humboldt's 1805 description because the identity of Piso's birds was considered uncertain.

He sets out to carry on Humboldt's programme of measuring temperatures at various depths, salinity, atmospheric pressure etc.

# Deja Vu-James Burke provides evidence that history does repeat itself by examining the likes of black and white movies, Conquistadors, Peruvian Incas, small pox, settlements that look like Spain's cities, the gold abundance ending up in Belgium, Antwerp, colony exploitation, the practice of burying treasure to avoid pirates, Port Royal's pirates, earthquakes, the College of William and Mary, military discipline, Alexander Humboldt's observation on the environment, Ratzel's superstate Lebensraum, and Haushofer's world domination.

It influenced John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty through which von Humboldt's ideas became known in the English-speaking world.

The correction of the prevalent exaggerated estimate of the height of the Central Asian plateau, and the discovery of diamonds in the gold-washings of the Ural, a result which Humboldt's Brazilian experiences enabled him to predict, and by predicting to secure.

Kunth worked as Humboldt's assistant in Paris from 1813 to 1819, in which he classified the plants that had been collected by Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland during their journey through the Americas.

The brothers ' interest in exploration was sparked by Alexander von Humboldt's Cosmos, the first volume of which appeared in 1845, and which led to their explorations of the Alps and in turn to Asia's mountains.

Humboldt's work as a philologist in Basque has had more extensive impact than his other work.

The editing and publication of the encyclopedic mass of scientific, political and archaeological material that had been collected by him during his absence from Europe was now Humboldt's most urgent desire.

Humboldt's pioneering work has been superseded in its details by modern linguistics and archaeology, but is sometimes still uncritically followed even today.

Đilas is mentioned in Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift, where he writes about Joseph Stalin's " twelve-course all-night banquets " and the theme of boredom.

He was bitter about Humboldt's mistake in not confirming the discovery of vanadium, and strongly reproached him.

It also gathers the H. Moore and Chillida's sculptures and the Humboldt's bronze head.

Humboldt's concept of education does not lend itself solely to individualistic interpretation.

Humboldt's educational ideal was entirely coloured by social considerations.

Humboldt scholar Tilman Borshe notes profound differences between von Humboldt's view of language and Chomsky's.

* Elsina Stubb, Wilhelm Von Humboldt's Philosophy of Language, Its Sources and Influence, Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.

Isothermal chart of the world created by William Channing Woodbridge using Humboldt's work.

Upon the accession of the crown prince Frederick William IV in June 1840, Humboldt's favour at court increased.

Many of Humboldt's historic buildings date from the early twentieth century period.