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The Invention of Nature

Andrea Wulf, 2015

Long read, about 496 pages

Alexander von Humboldt, the forgotten scientist who saw nature as one web.

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  1. Why do you think Humboldt was forgotten, and should he be remembered?
  2. What does seeing nature as one connected web change about how we act?
  3. Which journey or idea in the book would you most like to have witnessed?

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