Alexander von Humboldt, who has spent the …
Years: 1845 - 1845
Alexander von Humboldt, who has spent the last fifteen years writing his great work, Kosmos, an attempt at a comprehensive description of the universe, publishes the first volume in 1845 at the age of seventy-six.
Humboldt believes that the universe is an inseparable organic whole and that all phenomena are interdependent.
