Humboldt and the habitability of Canada's Great Northwest.(Alexnder von Humboldt)(Author abstract)

From: The Geographical Review | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Alexander von Humboldt's influence in British North America during the nineteenth century was filtered mainly through British imperial applications of "Humboldtian" sciences, including geomagnetism and biogeography. The best-known examples include Edward Sabine and John Henry Lefroy, Royal Artillery officers who, during the 1830s and 1840s, transformed British North American outposts and territories, including Rupert's Land, into Humboldtian sites and regions in Great Britain's imperial "magnetic crusade." Important groundwork had already been laid by John Richardson, who applied data ...

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