Comments (0)I am in the process of reading Humboldt's Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, which I downloaded from the Humboldt Digital Library. I have noticed a large number of errors in the text, which almost always take the form of inappropriate
As part of the Project, the metadata which describes the documents of the Library, is to be shared via the Open Archives Iniative. The Library will work as a "Data Provider" within the OAI Network. This means that a "Data Harvester" will ask the Lib
The Humboldt Digital Library is going to give a better representation of the statistical and measurement based tables. All the scientific and measurements tables are broadly categorized into several generic classes and the contents of th
Humbold had a great impact on Darwin and inspired him to undertake his famous Beagle voyage. He continued to use Humboldt's works throughout his life. See a list of paragraphs in which Darwin referred to Humboldt http://www.avhumboldt.net/inde
Humboldt's observations on slavery became famous in the United States and had an impact in Kansas before the Civil War. See article :http://www2.ku.edu/~maxkade/HarttmannenglArticle.pdf
It is almost 10 years that we have been developing this project and we are more than ever active in the Humboldt Digital Library. While our partners in the Kansas University are intensively working on bringing in a high quality of
Welcome to our Information Network on Alexander von Humboldt. You are invited to join the group of scientists, who are continously working on Humboldt's legacy by using the Humboldt Digital Library. The aim of our blog system is to open a communica
If any of you happen to be in Berlin the last week of July (27-31), there will be a very interesting conference: Travels Between Europe and the Americas – “Fifth International and Interdisciplinary Alexander von Humboldt Conference”
