Alexander Von Humboldt: Explorer, Naturalist, and Environmental Pioneer (2019) by Danica Novgorodoff

Authors

Peter Shea, Independent Scholar

Files

Description

As a young boy, Alexander Von Humboldt came up with divergent questions about the birds and mountains and animals he saw, and brought all those questions together under two big questions that stayed important for him over a long life: “How are these things different?” and “How are they nevertheless connected?” As the reader watches Humboldt looking at a hawk and a mouse, volcanoes and farmland, palm trees and pine trees, Europe and Ecuador, Europeans and Indigenous people, one comes to expect what he will say: “They are different, and yet they are connected.” This idea is much bigger than “ecology”. For Humboldt, it was a key to making sense of experience generally. It’s is a way of thinking worth exploring in discussion: acknowledge difference, then find connection.

Publication Date

2023

Publisher

Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children

City

Montclair

Keywords

Alexander Von Humboldt, education, exploration, philosophy for children, science, science education, slavery

Disciplines

Early Childhood Education | Earth Sciences | Education | Philosophy | Science and Mathematics Education

Recommended Citation

Shea, Peter, "Alexander Von Humboldt: Explorer, Naturalist, and Environmental Pioneer (2019) by Danica Novgorodoff" (2023). Picture Books. 37.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_thinkingstories_picturebooks/37