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I was riveted by this fascinating and illuminating biography of a visionary German naturalist and polymathâmostly forgottenâbrought back to life through vivid narrative and seamless research to interesting detail. Wulfâs storytelling style drew me into this manâs incredible life, a planetologist way ahead of his time, who predicted human-induced climate change, and formulated a radical concept of nature as both a complex and intertwined global entityâlong before Lovelock and Margulis came up with the Gaia Hypothesis in the 1960s.Â
Humboldt was the first ecologist, practicing the science of ecology for fifty years by the time German scientist Ernst Haeckel created a name for it (ökologie) in 1869. Humboldt embraced Schellingâs Naturphilosophie, which espoused an organic and dynamic worldview as an alternative to the atomist and mechanist outlook that prevailed at the time. He saw nature as a living organism, animated by dynamic forces. True to his holistic vision, Humboldt inventedâŠ
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'A thrilling adventure story' Bill Bryson
'Dazzling' Literary Review
'Brilliant' Sunday Express
'Extraordinary and gripping' New Scientist
'A superb biography' The Economist
'An exhilarating armchair voyage' GILES MILTON, Mail on Sunday
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist - more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon.
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to runâŠ
I love this book because it tells the story of the discovery of one of the greatest scientific theories: quantum physics â from a human point of view. There are diagrams but no equations. Becker narrates his story in a chronological order, involving the main protagonists behind the development of the physics of the subatomic world. But Becker does not just write as a historian. He is a physicist himself who is unhappy with the most popular interpretation of quantum mechanics: the Copenhagen interpretation. That is why the book bears the title: What is Real? For the trouble with quantum mechanics has always been, from the very start, what the abstruse mathematics tells us about the real world of atoms and their strange behaviour.
Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed Niels Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation and dismissed questions about the reality underlying quantum physics as meaningless. A mishmash of solipsism and poor reasoning, Copenhagen endured, as Bohr's students vigorously protected his legacy, and the physics community favoured practical experiments over philosophical arguments. As a result, questioning the status quo long meant professional ruin. And yet, from the 1920s to today, physicists like John Bell, David Bohm, and Hugh Everett persisted inâŠ
