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The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science The Blues Brothers forever changing the way HollywoodAlexander 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,