The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World Gothic Revival churches

Gothic Revival churches

Grand events unfold as continents collide

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With her eye for the unusual

John Stark quietly returned to his farm and lumber mill

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World Gothic Revival churchesAlexander von Humboldt (1769 1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever changed the way we understand the natural world. Among his most revolutionary ideas was a radical conception of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. In North America, Humboldts name still graces towns, counties, parks, bays, lakes, mountains,