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- Alexander von Humboldt
- "Alexander von Humboldt," Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge -- independent academic archive documenting Humboldt's own 1839 letter to a then-30-year-old Darwin and its content, opened and read in full
- Patrick Wilcken, "Conqueror of Chimborazo" (review of Andrea Wulf's The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World), Literary Review -- independent, non-hagiographic critical review naming specific documented incidents, opened and read in full
- Nathaniel Rich, "The Very Great Alexander von Humboldt" (review of Andrea Wulf's The Invention of Nature), The New York Review of Books, Oct 22 2015 -- independent review with specific dated/documented incidents, opened and read in full
- Anna Maria Gillis, "Humboldt in the New World," Humanities (National Endowment for the Humanities), Nov/Dec 2012 -- independent institutional account with specific dated incidents (passport, self-funding, Bonpland rescue, electric eel/curare), opened and read in full
- Patrick Marenda, "Humboldt and the origin of our ecological view of nature," Kinesis Magazine, Jan 28 2021 -- independent science-history account of his synthesizing method, opened and read in full