【资料收集】一本洪堡著作的英文译本：Essay on the Geography of Plants
植物地理学
（Essay on the Geography of Plants）
Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, Stephen T. Jackson, Sylvie Romanowski
芝加哥大学2009年出版
注1：本文集是英译“校注”本，原来作者本来是Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland两个人，
Stephen T. Jackson, Sylvie Romanowski一个是法国的科学史家，一个是，两个人合作多年，翻译并且还在书的后面写了研究性的文章。
注2：这是一本难得著作，是学术界对洪堡的这本开创了植物地理学学科的奠基性著作的第一次英文翻译（原文似乎是法语的）。也是19世纪科学史研究的重要成果。两个注者值得进一步关注。
ps：
Stephen T. Jackson
Professor and Director of Program in Ecology
Specialization: Paleoecology
Office: Williams Conservatory, B3A
Phone: 307-766-2819
E-mail: jackson@uwyo.edu
Education
1983 PhD. Indiana University, Bloomington
Major: Ecology and Evolunionary Biology
Minor: Plant Sciences
1978 M.S. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Major: Botany
1977 B.A. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Major: Botany
Minor: Geology
Courses
History and Philosophy of Ecology
Research Emphasis
Vegetation and climate change
注者2：Sylvie Romanowski
Sylvie Romanowski(Ph. D., Yale, 1969) specializes in the literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, and is also interested in the field of women's studies. She is the author of L'illusion chez Descartes: la structure du discours cartésien (1974), and Through Strangers' Eyes: Fictional Foreigners in Old Regime France (2005), which contains chapters on Montaigne, Montesquieu, Graffigny, Voltaire, and Claire de Duras. She has also written on Malraux, Cyrano de Bergerac, Molière, Racine, Rousseau, Colette, and Ernaux. She translated Alexander von Humboldt's Essai sur la géographie des plantes (1807) and wrote an essay on a plate accompanying that work, published by the University of Chicago Press (2009). She gave a paper on a play by Maryse Condé, Comme deux frères (2007) for a conference in Montréal on Francophone Theatre in the Americas in 2009. She teaches the literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly novels and theater, from a perspective that combines studying literary form and style and situating these works in their historical, social, and philosophical context. She also teaches writing done by women in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries from a similar multi-layered perspective. She is a member of the North American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Literature, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the Modern Language Association.
（847) 491-2772
Kresge 3-141
1860 S Campus Drive
s-romanowski@northwestern.edu
芝加哥大学出版社上的评语：“Virtually a Rosetta Stone, this book provides entry to the work of the great polymath naturalist who inspired Darwin, and reveals Humboldt as the grand figure that he was. Not just a translation, but greatly enriched by essays and supporting material, this is a must read for anyone interested in natural science—and, indeed, science in general.”—Thomas E. Lovejoy, The Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
“Stephen T. Jackson provides an invaluable service to modern science—complementing Sylvie Romanowski’s meticulous translation of Humboldt’s essay and the careful reproductions of Humboldt’s seminal illustrations of geographic variation in climate and vegetation along the slopes of Mount Chimborazo—with an eloquent account of the historical development and intellectual impact of Humboldt’s masterpiece. The result is a precious opportunity to rediscover a lost classic in the history of science; one that can once again serve as an exemplary case study for advancing the frontiers of natural science through enlightened integration across diverse but interdependent disciplines.”—Mark V. Lomolino, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York
“In this book, our first planetary thinker, Alexander von Humboldt, announces his life’s work and catalyzes not just a new way of doing science—opening the way to biogeography, evolution, ecology, environmental science, the study of climate change and a host of other disciplines—but a new way of seeing the world that includes the role of humans in changing the face of the planet and the role of nature in human thought, perception, and imagination. Thanks to this fine and scholarly translation, richly supported by introductory essays, readers of English at last have access to Humboldt’s provocative questions and visionary tools. Here scientific precision and artistic beauty fuse into an argument for transdisciplinary thought in free and democratic societies. In Darwin’s day, every educated person read Humboldt; today, every educated person interested in forging a path to the future should start with this book, Humboldt’s manifesto for the twenty-first century.”—Laura Dassow Walls, author of Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
“Alexander von Humboldt was a seminal explorer and natural philosopher of the nineteenth century whose work was fundamental to the development of botany, ecology, geography, geology, meteorology, and other disciplines. . . . His groundbreaking work on plant geography is translated here for the first time in highly readable English, with a perceptive, thought-provoking introduction that lends context and added interest to the general text.”—Choice
Preface
Note to the Reader
Note on Nomenclature
Note on Units
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Humboldt, Ecology, and the Cosmos
Stephen T. Jackson
Translator’s Note
Sylvie Romanowski
Essay on the Geography of Plants
Alexander von Humboldt, translated by Sylvie Romanowski
Text of Humboldt’s Tableau physique
Translated by Sylvie Romanowski
Humboldt’s Pictorial Science: An Analysis of the Tableau physique
des Andes et Pays voisins
Sylvie Romanowski
Plant Species Cited in Humboldt’s Essay and Tableau physique
Stephen T. Jackson
Instruments Utilized in Developing the Tableau physique
Stephen T. Jackson
Biographical Sketches
Stephen T. Jackson
Bibliographical Essay and Bibliography
Stephen T. Jackson
Color plate, Tableau physique
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Biological Sciences: Biology--Systematics | Botany | Evolutionary Biology | Natural History | Tropical Biology and Conservation
Earth Sciences: Environment | History of Earth Sciences
Geography: Environmental Geography
History: Discoveries and Exploration
History of Science
（Essay on the Geography of Plants）
Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, Stephen T. Jackson, Sylvie Romanowski
芝加哥大学2009年出版
注1：本文集是英译“校注”本，原来作者本来是Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland两个人，
Stephen T. Jackson, Sylvie Romanowski一个是法国的科学史家，一个是，两个人合作多年，翻译并且还在书的后面写了研究性的文章。
注2：这是一本难得著作，是学术界对洪堡的这本开创了植物地理学学科的奠基性著作的第一次英文翻译（原文似乎是法语的）。也是19世纪科学史研究的重要成果。两个注者值得进一步关注。
ps：
Stephen T. Jackson
Professor and Director of Program in Ecology
Specialization: Paleoecology
Office: Williams Conservatory, B3A
Phone: 307-766-2819
E-mail: jackson@uwyo.edu
Education
1983 PhD. Indiana University, Bloomington
Major: Ecology and Evolunionary Biology
Minor: Plant Sciences
1978 M.S. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Major: Botany
1977 B.A. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Major: Botany
Minor: Geology
Courses
History and Philosophy of Ecology
Research Emphasis
Vegetation and climate change
注者2：Sylvie Romanowski
Sylvie Romanowski(Ph. D., Yale, 1969) specializes in the literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, and is also interested in the field of women's studies. She is the author of L'illusion chez Descartes: la structure du discours cartésien (1974), and Through Strangers' Eyes: Fictional Foreigners in Old Regime France (2005), which contains chapters on Montaigne, Montesquieu, Graffigny, Voltaire, and Claire de Duras. She has also written on Malraux, Cyrano de Bergerac, Molière, Racine, Rousseau, Colette, and Ernaux. She translated Alexander von Humboldt's Essai sur la géographie des plantes (1807) and wrote an essay on a plate accompanying that work, published by the University of Chicago Press (2009). She gave a paper on a play by Maryse Condé, Comme deux frères (2007) for a conference in Montréal on Francophone Theatre in the Americas in 2009. She teaches the literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly novels and theater, from a perspective that combines studying literary form and style and situating these works in their historical, social, and philosophical context. She also teaches writing done by women in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries from a similar multi-layered perspective. She is a member of the North American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Literature, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the Modern Language Association.
（847) 491-2772
Kresge 3-141
1860 S Campus Drive
s-romanowski@northwestern.edu
芝加哥大学出版社上的评语：“Virtually a Rosetta Stone, this book provides entry to the work of the great polymath naturalist who inspired Darwin, and reveals Humboldt as the grand figure that he was. Not just a translation, but greatly enriched by essays and supporting material, this is a must read for anyone interested in natural science—and, indeed, science in general.”—Thomas E. Lovejoy, The Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
“Stephen T. Jackson provides an invaluable service to modern science—complementing Sylvie Romanowski’s meticulous translation of Humboldt’s essay and the careful reproductions of Humboldt’s seminal illustrations of geographic variation in climate and vegetation along the slopes of Mount Chimborazo—with an eloquent account of the historical development and intellectual impact of Humboldt’s masterpiece. The result is a precious opportunity to rediscover a lost classic in the history of science; one that can once again serve as an exemplary case study for advancing the frontiers of natural science through enlightened integration across diverse but interdependent disciplines.”—Mark V. Lomolino, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York
“In this book, our first planetary thinker, Alexander von Humboldt, announces his life’s work and catalyzes not just a new way of doing science—opening the way to biogeography, evolution, ecology, environmental science, the study of climate change and a host of other disciplines—but a new way of seeing the world that includes the role of humans in changing the face of the planet and the role of nature in human thought, perception, and imagination. Thanks to this fine and scholarly translation, richly supported by introductory essays, readers of English at last have access to Humboldt’s provocative questions and visionary tools. Here scientific precision and artistic beauty fuse into an argument for transdisciplinary thought in free and democratic societies. In Darwin’s day, every educated person read Humboldt; today, every educated person interested in forging a path to the future should start with this book, Humboldt’s manifesto for the twenty-first century.”—Laura Dassow Walls, author of Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
“Alexander von Humboldt was a seminal explorer and natural philosopher of the nineteenth century whose work was fundamental to the development of botany, ecology, geography, geology, meteorology, and other disciplines. . . . His groundbreaking work on plant geography is translated here for the first time in highly readable English, with a perceptive, thought-provoking introduction that lends context and added interest to the general text.”—Choice
Preface
Note to the Reader
Note on Nomenclature
Note on Units
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Humboldt, Ecology, and the Cosmos
Stephen T. Jackson
Translator’s Note
Sylvie Romanowski
Essay on the Geography of Plants
Alexander von Humboldt, translated by Sylvie Romanowski
Text of Humboldt’s Tableau physique
Translated by Sylvie Romanowski
Humboldt’s Pictorial Science: An Analysis of the Tableau physique
des Andes et Pays voisins
Sylvie Romanowski
Plant Species Cited in Humboldt’s Essay and Tableau physique
Stephen T. Jackson
Instruments Utilized in Developing the Tableau physique
Stephen T. Jackson
Biographical Sketches
Stephen T. Jackson
Bibliographical Essay and Bibliography
Stephen T. Jackson
Color plate, Tableau physique
Google preview here
Biological Sciences: Biology--Systematics | Botany | Evolutionary Biology | Natural History | Tropical Biology and Conservation
Earth Sciences: Environment | History of Earth Sciences
Geography: Environmental Geography
History: Discoveries and Exploration
History of Science
