Journey To Sout What Summary

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In the midst of The Enlightenment era, the quest of knowledge and progress of science was born in Western Europe. Although many look at the Enlightenment in a positive sight, critics of the Enlightenment believed that the study of science and journeys to New Worlds were for simply vain curiosity. Through reading Humboldt’s Personal Narrative, Humboldt disputes this assumption, and represents nature as a progression of knowledge and science. Through his travels, Humboldt is able to contribute towards science about his knowledge of the South America jungles and the interconnections throughout nature, which helps benefit society. He places an emphasis on the theory of empiricism by romanticizing nature through his writings, influencing the increase in other scientific journeys and the study of the correlation between natures. Humboldt begins his Personal Narrative on why he decided to travel to …show more content…

He talks about how “rather than discovering new, isolated facts I preferred linking already known ones together,”(Humboldt 6.), thus saying how he is much more interested in looking at how nature works together rather than just discovering new types of plants or animals. He theorizes that rather than just looking at the specific area that a type of plant or animal lives in, one must look at the “idea of whole”, what creates the geography of that region, and if the same types of plants or animals live in different regions around the world with the same type of environment. Through looking at this “idea of whole,” Humboldt is able to grasp the deeper fundamentals of nature, and by studying the natural sciences, he is able to see that they “are connected by the same ties that link all natural phenomena together.” (Humboldt, 6.) An example of this is when he is able to connect earthquakes to

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