![]() ![]() Jurgen Moltmann, despite being German, does not reference Humboldt in his 1984–5 Gifford Lectures, God in Creation. Nor does Humboldt appear in the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy’s article on the philosophy of biology (there is no philosophy of nature entry). Yet his name does not appear in the first of Alister McGrath’s three volume A Scientific Theology entitled Nature, in spite of the fact that McGrath explores secular and scientific philosophies of nature. He is President of ISCAST.Īlexander von Humboldt: major river, or minor tributary, and does it matter?Īlexander von Humboldt-nineteenth-century Prussian naturalist, romanticist, and promoter of science-was, according to Wulf, a major contributor to the way in which we understand Nature (capital intended). He is a physician in Addiction Medicine and Head of the Addiction Medicine Service at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. 473pp.Īlan Gijsbers is an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne. Book Review- The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf, John Murray, 2015. ![]()
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