Andrea Wulf
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625 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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And then also the Jena set.
But Humboldt is the bridge that bridges the enlightenment and romanticism.
He is the connection.
I mean, he's the, you know, you have on the one hand, you have, I don't know, Isaac Newton, who says, rainbows are created by light refracting through raindrops.
And on the other side, you have romantic poets such as John Keats, who says,
Newton has destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by sending the light through a prism.
And Humboldt does both.
He gives us this kind of bond between
the subjective and the objective between the emotional and the rational.
So he's that bridge between the arts and the sciences.
Yes.
So because Humboldt sees nature as an interconnected whole, he also sees the dangers of destroying it.
So as he travels through South America, he warns about the destruction of forests, monoculture, irrigation, because although, you know, you think he's always in the wilderness, he's not.
I mean, this is, you know, these are the Spanish colonies.
So he sees a lot of plantations, for example,
and how those plantations have entirely destroyed forests.
And then as he travels, he sees these destructions.
And he is, for example, the very first to explain the fundamental functions of the forest for the ecosystem.
So he talks about the forest's ability to store water, to enrich the atmosphere with moisture, to protect against soil erosion.
when he comes back, he talks about harmful human induced climate change in 1800, pretty extraordinary.
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