Geography of Plants in the New World: Humboldt's Relevance.
Humboldt: From the Americas to the Cosmos,” held at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York on Oct. 14-16, 2004. We thank all contributors and participants for their papers and comments, as well as for their patience in the effort to convert the conference proceedings to publishable form. Neither the conference nor the.
Cosmos was born, Humboldt said, on the slopes of the Andes and first took shape in the 1805 Essay on the Geography of Plants that he dedicated to Goethe; but the idea had been with him since those formative years at Jena and Weimar and even before, in those heady conversations on the Rhine with Georg Forster. After this long foreground, the catalyst was a moment of crisis. Humboldt loved Paris.