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Cover -- ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT -- Title -- Copyright -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: CULTURAL IMPACT -- 1 Indiana Reads Alexander von Humboldt -- 2 Alexander von Humboldt: Between Enlightenment Vitalism and Romantic Naturphilosophie -- 3 Alexander von Humboldt and Peter Schlemihl: The Image of the Scientific Explorer in Early Nineteenth-Century German Literature -- 4 The Meeting of Two Alexanders: Causes and Consequences of Humboldt's and Pushkin's Mutual Admiration -- PART II: ON NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT -- 5 Alexander von Humboldt's Environmental Holism -- 6 Alexander von Humboldt's Lonely Parrot in Views of Nature -- 7 Re-Rivering New Spain: Transatlantic Politics of Knowledge and Water in Alexander von Humboldt -- PART III: HUMBOLDT FROM ART TO SCIENCE AND SCIENCE AS ART -- 8 Beseelte Natur: Alexander von Humboldt and Data-Driven Paradigm Segues -- 9 Alexander von Humboldt beyond Planet Earth: Exploring the Infinite and Unreachable in Kosmos -- 10 Art and Aesthetics in Alexander von Humboldt: The Subterranean Tree and Other Images -- Biographies of Contributors -- Index.