Daniel Kehlmann's 2005 novel Die Vermessung der Welt, translated into English as Measuring the World ( 2006 ), explores Gauss's life and work through a lens of historical fiction, contrasting them with those of the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

Several works among the best known during this long period could be cited as an example, from Strabo ( Geography ), Eratosthenes ( Geography ) or Dionisio Periegetes ( Periegesis Oiceumene ) in the Ancient Age to the Alexander von Humboldt ( Cosmos ) in the century XIX, in which geography is regarded as a physical and natural science, of course, through the work Summa de Geografía of Martín Fernández de Enciso from the early sixteenth century, which is indicated for the first time the New World.

Humboldt died while preparing his greatest work, on the ancient Kawi language of Java, but its introduction was published in 1836 as The Heterogeneity of Language and its Influence on the Intellectual Development of Mankind.

Nonetheless, the reception of Humboldt's work remains problematic in English-speaking countries, despite the work of Langham Brown, Manchester and Underhill ( Humboldt, Worldview & Language, 2009 ).

In Underhill's work, a distinction is made between five forms of worldview: world-perceiving, world-conceiving, cultural mindset, personal world and perspective, in order to convey the distinctions Humboldt was concerned with preserving in his ethnolinguistics.

In reality Humboldt dedicated large parts of his work to describing the conditions of slaves, Indians and society in general.

Humboldt had long intended to write a comprehensive work about geography and the natural sciences.

Assertion of a relationship between Votan and Odin is found in the work of the distinguished geographer Alexander von Humboldt, who wrote in Vues des Cordillères ( 1810 ):

The scientific theory of biogeography grows out of the work of Alexander von Humboldt ( 1769 – 1859 ), Hewett Cottrell Watson ( 1804 – 1881 ), Alphonse de Candolle ( 1806 – 1893 ), Alfred Russel Wallace ( 1823 – 1913 ), Philip Lutley Sclater ( 1829 – 1913 ) and other biologists and explorers.

At the " falls " of the Agua Fria at present Humboldt, Woolsey built a small quartz mill to work gold ores from the nearby hills and a small water-powered grist mill.

Though the work of Humboldt offers a deep insight into the relationship between thinking and speaking, and though Edward Sapir gives a very subtle account of this relationship in English.

* Alexander von Humboldt ( 1769 – 1859 ) – German explorer and scientist whose work was foundational to the field of biogeography.

Isothermal chart of the world created 1823 by William Channing Woodbridge using the work of Alexander von Humboldt.

Of particular importance was the work of Alexander von Humboldt, which analyzed the relationship between organisms and their environment ( i. e., the domain of natural history ) using the quantitative approaches of natural philosophy ( i. e., physics and chemistry ).

This work describes three types of sound symbol using a model first proposed by Wilhelm von Humboldt ( see below ):

For the most part, however, Darwin ’ s ideas simply overlaid the fundamental features of Schleicher ’ s prior evolutionary project, which derived from the work of those individuals immersed in German romanticism and idealism especially Humboldt and Hegel.

Alexander von Humboldt used the maps in his work Carte generale ... de la Nouvelle Espagne, ( Paris, 1804 ).

This work was scheduled for its first live performance on 6 May 2004, in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, Abspannwerk Humboldt.

" The composition of this piece was also indebted to the work of the German thinker Wilhelm von Humboldt, especially his essay On the Limits of State Action.

In 2011 Prof. Basit Yameen of the LUMS School of Science and Engineering won the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for this work on molecular biology.

As the 19th century German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt noted in his work Cosmos,

In 1975-1978 Brigance created the first comprehensive inventory of basic skills for his own use in his work as an assessment specialist for the California Master Plan in Humboldt and Del-Norte counties in northern California.

Humboldt was impressed with del Río, and wrote " It is in Mexico where the best work of mineralogy in Spanish has been published, the Elementos de Orictognosia of Señor Del Rio.

Conversely, Elijah Delmedigo ( c. 1458 – c. 1493 ), in his Bechinat ha-Dat endeavored to show that the Zohar could not be attributed to Shimon bar Yochai, arguing that if it were his work, the Zohar would have been mentioned by the Talmud, as has been the case with other works of the Talmudic period, that had bar Yochai known by divine revelation the hidden meaning of the precepts, his decisions on Jewish law from the Talmudic period would have been adopted by the Talmud, that it would not contain the names of rabbis who lived at a later period than that of Simeon ; and that if the Kabbalah was a revealed doctrine, there would have been no divergence of opinion among the Kabbalists concerning the mystic interpretation of the precepts.

Debate continued over the generations ; Delmedigo's arguments were echoed by Leon of Modena ( d. 1648 ) in his Ari Nohem, and a work devoted to the criticism of the Zohar, Miṭpaḥat Sefarim, was written by Jacob Emden ( d. 1776 ), who, waging war against the remaining adherents of the Sabbatai Zevi movement ( in which Zevi, a false messiah and Jewish apostate, cited Messianic prophecies from the Zohar as proof of his legitimacy ), endeavored to show that the book on which Zevi based his doctrines was a forgery.

Unfortunately, Marsh died ( 1899 ) before the work was completed, and John Bell Hatcher endeavored to complete the Triceratops section.

Their library was acquired by the Premonstratensians of the Abbey of Tongerloo, who endeavored to carry on the work.

He endeavored to combine his habits of theological study with the practical work of administration.

He endeavored to work out a realistic approach to the moral danger posed by aggressive powers which many idealists and pacifists failed to recognize.

In a work entitled Or Ammim ( Bologna, 1537 ) he endeavored to combat with Biblical arguments the theories of Aristotle on the eternity of matter, on God's omniscience, and on the universality of the soul, as well as various other Aristotelian views that in his view conflicted with religion.

In the late 1930s, he was additionally part of a group of five other statisticians who endeavored to produce a reference work summarizing recent developments in statistical theory, but it was cancelled on account of onset of World War II.

Olsen quickly recognized the talent and significance of Davis ' writings, and personally endeavored to reintroduce Davis ' work.

Upon his return, he resumed work in the hospital and strenuously endeavored to enjoy and make up the missed moments with his family.

In his Apostolic Constitution Ut Sit, John Paul II declared that " this Institution has in fact striven, not only to illuminate with new lights the mission of the laity in the Church and in society, but also to put it into practice ; it has also endeavored to put into practice the teaching of the universal call to holiness, and to promote at all levels of society the sanctification of ordinary work, and by means of ordinary work.

According to the Apostolic Constitution Ut sit issued by John Paul II: “ From its beginnings, this ( Opus Dei ) has in fact striven, not only to illuminate with new lights the mission of the laity in the Church and in society, but also to put it into practice ; it has also endeavored to put into practice the teaching of the universal call to sanctity, and to promote at all levels of society the sanctification of ordinary work, and by means of ordinary work.

And while the songs would largely be composed by Jagger, he endeavored to work with other collaborators, namely, Kravitz and Rob Thomas, lead vocalist of Matchbox Twenty.

Perhaps tracing some of these more important symbols through the body of his work will show that Patchen's new poetry is well thought out, and remains within the mainstream of his work, while being suited to a new form.

She helped with teaching as well as office work for a few years -- the catalogues show that she had classes in geography, rhetoric and bookkeeping.

There are 151 items in the Wilmington show, including one painting by each member of the `` Eight '', as well as work by Sloan's friends and students.

In the absence of other evidence to show the origin of these curious relics of antiquity the occurrence of a name known as Basilidian on patristic authority has not unnaturally been taken as a sufficient mark of origin, and the early collectors and critics assumed this whole group to be the work of Gnostics.

From about 1955 he started to work on sheaf theory and homological algebra, producing the influential " Tôhoku paper " ( Sur quelques points d ' algèbre homologique, published in 1957 ) where he introduced Abelian categories and applied their theory to show that sheaf cohomology can be defined as certain derived functors in this context.

Supporters of this view believe that “ to a hypothetical outside reader, presents Christianity as enlightened, harmless, even beneficent .” Some believe that through this work, Luke intended to show the Roman Empire that the root of Christianity is within Judaism so that the Christians “ may receive the same freedom to practice their faith that the Roman Empire afforded the Jews .” Those who support the view of Luke ’ s work as political apology generally draw evidence from the facts that Christians are found innocent of committing any political crime ( Acts 25: 25 ; 19: 37 ; 19: 40 ) and that Roman officials ’ views towards Christians are generally positive.

Furthermore, Cassidy believes that Luke ’ s work serves to “ equip his readers to handle such trials ” by providing examples of the disciples ’ suffering and to encourage them to “ show the same faithfulness of testimony when under trial as Jesus and the leading disciples .”

For example, the daughter of a rich, famous ancestor or father would work hard at her tattoos to show the accomplishments of that ancestor or father.

These later poems, mostly written before 1910, show a greater variety of subject and form than those in A Shropshire Lad but lack the consistency of his previously published work.

In volume 21 of his work Ab Urbe Condita, Livy ( 59 BC-17 AD ) claims that it was a Boian man that offered to show Hannibal the way across the Alps.

Vocales have the duty to work as such during a cycle of elections, and can be penalized legally if they do not show up.

Catullus described his work as expolitum, or polished, to show that the language he used was very carefully and artistically composed.

* CPAN Dependencies, which combines data from META. yml files and the CPAN testers to graphically show a module's dependencies and attempt to calculate how likely it is to work on a particular platform.

Early crochet hooks ranged from primitive bent needles in a cork handle, used by poor Irish lace workers, to expensively crafted silver, brass, steel, ivory and bone hooks set into a variety of handles, some of which were better designed to show off a lady's hands than they were to work with thread.

: May 3, 1860: " Mr. Darwin has written a work which will constitute an era in geology & natural history to show that ... the descendants of common parents may become in the course of ages so unlike each other as to be entitled to rank as a distinct species, from each other or from some of their progenitors ".

His solution to the country's economic difficulties was basically for the people to work harder and show more discipline.

He did some studio work for RCA that year but had relocated to Knoxville again where he worked with Homer and Jethro on WNOX's new Saturday night radio show The Tennessee Barn Dance and the popular Midday Merry Go Round.

He stated: " The research data show that there is nothing about lesbians and gay men that makes them inherently unfit for military service, and there is nothing about heterosexuals that makes them inherently unable to work and live with gay people in close quarters.

Discrimination on the basis of nationality may show as a " level of acceptance " in a sport or work team regarding new team members and employees who differ from the nationality of the majority of team members.

Statistics for 1876 show 3, 748, but 500 of these had been expelled from their convents and were engaged in parochial work.

Spencer Jones ' work of 1939 showed that the positions of the Sun actually observed, when compared with those obtained from Newcomb's formula, show the need for the following correction to the formula to represent the observations:

Wallach earned a 2007 Emmy nomination for his work on the show.

These films show strong affinities with the work of Italian neorealists, not least Roberto Rossellini's neorealist trilogy which included Germany Year Zero ( 1948 ), and are concerned primarily with day-to-day life in the devastated Germany and an initial reaction to the events of the Nazi period ( the full horror of which was first experienced by many in documentary footage from liberated concentration camps ).