@article{Leitner2000,
  author    = {Leitner, Ulrike},
  title     = {Humboldt's works on Mexico},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {I},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.18443/2},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34355},
  pages     = {29 -- 44},
  year      = {2000},
  abstract  = {Humboldt wrote about Mexico from the perspective of a scientific explorer and naturalist. His works include his diaries, the Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne, the Tablas g{\´e}ograficas, the Vues des Cordill{\`e}res and a geographic atlas. Concerning the scientific aspect, the lack of a section on Mexico in the Relation historique is not a real deficit, since this can be found in the Essai. But only the diaries and letters from the journey, both published by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Centre, Berlin, can be considered an adequate substitute. The following will show the origin of Humboldt's writings on Mexico, offer historical and bibliographical facts and present the publications "Beitr{\"a}ge zur Alexander von Humboldt-Forschung", as well as Humboldt's handwritten estate as far as they are available to us.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Pieper2000,
  author    = {Pieper, Herbert},
  title     = {"Ungeheure Tiefe des Denkens, unerreichbarer Scharfblick und die seltenste Schnelligkeit der Kombination"},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  volume    = {I},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.18443/3},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34363},
  pages     = {45 -- 63},
  year      = {2000},
  abstract  = {On the 17th of July 1800 Alexander von Humboldt was elected as an extraordinary member of the Prussian Acad{\´e}mie royale des sciences et belles-lettres at Berlin. The paper first deals with Humboldt's scientific activities before his election and then goes into detail as far as his integration into the work of the Academy is concerned. Humboldt was elected as a chimiste c{\´e}l{\`e}bre, but as a member of the Academy he did not work as a chemist. When Humboldt proposed in 1837 to classify the members of each class in special fields, he chose for himself the field of "mineralogy-geology".},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{Schwarz2000,
  author    = {Schwarz, Ingo},
  title     = {"Es ist meine Art, einen und denselben Gegenstand zu verfolgen, bis ich ihn aufgekl{\"a}rt habe"},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {I},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.18443/4},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34372},
  pages     = {65 -- 70},
  year      = {2000},
  abstract  = {Alexander von Humboldt has been characterized as the second, scientific discoverer of the New World, as the last universal scientist, Aristotle of modern times, etc. However, more or less hidden in his correspondence we find certain self-characterizations which are not that well-known. Some of them are quoted and discussed in the paper. Thus, an attempt is made to answer the question why Humboldt liked to call himself "the old man from the mountains", and whether or not he found it appropriate to be called "Aristotle of our age."},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{Werner2000,
  author    = {Werner, Petra},
  title     = {{\"U}bereinstimmung oder Gegensatz?},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {I},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.18443/5},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34380},
  pages     = {71 -- 109},
  year      = {2000},
  abstract  = {The present paper investigates the conceptual development of Alexander on Humboldt. The point of reference is his relation to Schelling and to a series of investigators of nature and of physicians closely connected to Naturphilosophie. It is shown that in the correspondence of Humboldt with this group the content underwent a transformation. Scientific exchanges and a general interpretative consensus were over the years more and more replaced by social cooperation over academic appointments, and collaboration over other political problems within the scientific establishment. Humboldt fit Schelling and other partners with whom he cooperated into a network of relationships that rested on mutual social support.},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{Ette2000,
  author    = {Ette, Ottmar},
  title     = {Unterwegs zum Weltbewußtsein},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  volume    = {I},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.18443/1},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34346},
  pages     = {5 -- 28},
  year      = {2000},
  abstract  = {Towards Global Consciousness. Alexander von Humboldt's Conception of Science and the emerging ethical Weltanschauung. In the context of recent reflections upon global ethics (Hans K{\"u}ng), global democracy (Otfried H{\"o}ffe) and a new cultural situation after the end of the Cold War (Clifford Geertz), Alexander von Humboldt's concept of global consciousness (Weltbewußtsein) marks a decisive point in the ungoing process of the construction of a new ethics of globalization. This article tries to show how Humboldt's transdisciplinary and intercultural conception of sience as WorldWideWeb integrates Kant's philosophical visions of global political institutions and formulates a critique of the non-empirical foundations of Hegel's teleological Weltanschauung. From his Visions of Nature and his Personal Narrative to his Cosmos, Humboldt's theory and practice of science help us to find a new ethos and new answers to the contemporary questions of divergent modernities.},
  language  = {de}
}
@misc{EtteLeitnerPieperetal.2000,
  author    = {Ette, Ottmar and Leitner, Ulrike and Pieper, Herbert and Schwarz, Ingo and Werner, Petra},
  title     = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz},
  volume    = {I},
  number    = {1},
  editor    = {Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-42414},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-424140},
  pages     = {109},
  year      = {2000},
  abstract  = {Inhalt: -Ottmar Ette: Unterwegs zum Weltbewußtsein. Alexander von Humboldts Wissenschaftsverst{\"a}ndnis und die Entstehung einer ethisch fundierten Weltanschauung -Ulrike Leitner: Humboldt's works on Mexico -Herbert Pieper: „Ungeheure Tiefe des Denkens, unerreichbarer Scharfblick und die seltenste Schnelligkeit der Kombination". Zur Wahl Alexander von Humboldts in die K{\"o}nigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin vor 200 Jahren -Ingo Schwarz: „Es ist meine Art, einen und denselben Gegenstand zu verfolgen, bis ich ihn aufgekl{\"a}rt habe". {\"A}ußerungen Alexander von Humboldts {\"u}ber sich selbst -Petra Werner: {\"U}bereinstimmung oder Gegensatz? Zum widerspr{\"u}chlichen Verh{\"a}ltnis zwischen A. v. Humboldt und F. W. J. Schelling},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{BiermannSchwarz2001,
  author    = {Biermann, Kurt-Reinhard and Schwarz, Ingo},
  title     = {Der Aachener Kongreß und das Scheitern der indischen Reisepl{\"a}ne Alexander von Humboldts},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {II},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.18443/6},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34500},
  pages     = {5 -- 14},
  year      = {2001},
  abstract  = {This article argues that a "Memoir about the Spanish Colonies in South America" allegedly written by Alexander von Humboldt in 1818 for the Holy Alliance's Conference at Aix-la-Chapelle in reality never existed and therefore could not serve as an impediment to Humboldt's effort to visit India.},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{Clark2001,
  author    = {Clark, Rex},
  title     = {If Humboldt had a laptop},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {II},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.18443/16},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34630},
  pages     = {5 -- 20},
  year      = {2001},
  abstract  = {The difficult publication history and expensive editions of Alexander von Humboldt's volumes on the expedition to the Americas have resulted in incomplete library holdings which has limited scholarly access and sometimes caused unbalanced scholarship. A plan for a Humboldt Digital Library examines the structures and features of this representational system in print and proposes models for converting these materials to electronic form. Several issues posed by Humboldt's works include: establishing authoritative standard editions in several languages, creating high-resolution access to the many visual innovations in the works, and using software to restore the grand concept that all of the separate disciplines of study can be seen as interrelated parts of the whole. Using techniques of geographic visualization, a prototype is planned which will connect this historical body of knowledge with modern scientific databases.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{vonEngelhardt2001,
  author    = {von Engelhardt, Wolf},
  title     = {Goethe und Alexander von Humboldt},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {II},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.18443/17},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34646},
  pages     = {21 -- 33},
  year      = {2001},
  abstract  = {An Hand von Quellen wird berichtet {\"u}ber Goethes Auseinandersetzung mit Alexander von Humboldts Schriften: "Ueber den Bau und die Wirkungsart der Vulkane in den verschiedenen Erdstrichen" (Berlin 1823) und "Fragmens de g{\´e}ologie et de climatologie asiatique" (Paris 1831).},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{Kortum2001,
  author    = {Kortum, Gerhard},
  title     = {Humboldt der Seefahrer und sein Marinechronometer},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {II},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.18443/18},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34650},
  pages     = {33 -- 66},
  year      = {2001},
  abstract  = {Kurz vor seiner Abreise nach S{\"u}damerika erwarb HUMBOLDT zur Erg{\"a}nzung seiner Instrumentenausr{\"u}stung ein ganz besonderes Pr{\"a}zisions-Taschenchronometer, gefertigt von dem ber{\"u}hmten Schweizer Uhrmacher Louis BERTHOUD (1753-1813) mit der Fertigungsnummer 27. Dieser Zeitmesser ging, wie HUMBOLDT durch astronomische Vergleichsmessungen in Frankreich und Spanien auf der Anreise zum Einschiffungshafen La Corunna 1799 feststellte, außerordentlich genau. HUMBOLDTs L{\"a}ngenbestimmungen mit Hilfe dieses "time-keepers" auf der Atlantik-{\"U}berfahrt und sonstigen Seefahrten waren deshalb immer besser als die der Nautiker. Er konnte dadurch exakte Beschreibungen der Meeresstr{\"o}mungen machen und durch Vergleich mit der Schiffsversetzung durch diese konkrete Angaben zu deren Richtung und St{\"a}rke berechnen. Zudem brauchte er die BERTHOUD-Uhr f{\"u}r zahlreiche astronomische Ortsbestimmungen, geod{\"a}tische Messungen auf Land. Die Uhr geh{\"o}rte vorher dem bekannten franz{\"o}sischen Seefahrer, Mathematiker und Geod{\"a}ten Jean Louis BORDA (1733-1799), mit dem HUMBOLDT 1798 kurz vor dessen Tod in Paris wissenschaftlichen und instrumentenkundlichen Austausch pflegte. Aus zahlreichen Abschnitten der Reisebeschreibung und Hinweisen in Briefen und anderen Werken geht hervor, daß HUMBOLDT gerade an diesem Zeitmesser, neben Thermometer und Barometer sein drittes Basisinstrument, wegen der Vorgeschichte der Uhr, ihrer Zuverl{\"a}ssigkeit und N{\"u}tzlichkeit f{\"u}r alle seine wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten geradezu liebevoll gehangen hat. Leider ist dieser Chronometer nicht mehr vorhanden, sein Aussehen und ihre Funktionsweise l{\"a}ßt sich aber aus HUMBOLDTs eigenen Beschreibungen und der horologischen Literatur erschließen.},
  language  = {de}
}