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Some Suggestions for this article !

With due respect to the previous contributors. I want to make some suggestions for this wiki page. Firstly, there is no separate intro/lead section that summarizes the article. It misses the point how Humboldt revolutionized the the idea that nature is unconnected to the men. Secondly, there is no structure for this article. I understand that it is not necessary when the article only describes very little information about COSMOS. It would have been better if there were more information about cosmos with different subtitle/sections. There are not many topics that described the significance of the article. I believe that, article was written in an unbiased way, but there are so little information about such an influential book is very surprising. This article could have included some picture painted by Humboldt, in which he wanted to depict the harmony with the natural world. Some more references could be helpful to establish this article as a substantial one. Abue.chowdhury (talk) 04:34, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography

Here is an initial list of sources that I will use to add to this article:

Botting, Douglas. 1973. Humboldt and the cosmos. New York: Harper & Row.

Clair, Jean. 1999. Cosmos: from Romanticism to the avant-garde. Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Downs, Robert B. 1982. Landmarks in science: Hippocrates to Carson. Littleton, Colo: Libraries Unlimited.

Humboldt, Alexander von. 1997. Cosmos: a sketch of a physical description of the universe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.

Lee, Jeff. 2001. "Alexander von Humboldt". Focus on Geography. 46 (3): 29-30.

Mathewson, K. (2006). Humboldt’s Twenty-First-Century Currency: Recent Upwellings, Commemorations, and Critical Commentaries. Geographical Review, 96(3), 452-455. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/225329353?accountid=9784

Sachs, A. (1995, 03). Humboldt's legacy and the restoration of science. World Watch, 8, 28. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/230005809?accountid=9784

Sachs, Aaron. 2006. The Humboldt current: nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism. New York: Viking.

Spier, F. (2012). Interpreting the history of 'big history'. Teaching History, (146), 50-51. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1010326683?accountid=9784

Walls, Laura Dassow. 2009. The passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashleyweir (talk • contribs) 19:44, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography

Mathewson, Kent. "Alexander von Humboldt's Image and Influence in North American Geography, 1804–2004." Geographical Review 96, no. 3 (2006): 416-438.

Walls, Laura Dassow. The passage to cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America. University of Chicago Press, 2009

Clair , J. (1999). Cosmos: From romanticism to avant-garde, 1801-2001. ( ed.). New York: Prestel

Watson, Peter. The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century. Simon and Schuster, 2010.

Reynolds, David S. Walt Whitman's America: A cultural biography. Random House LLC, 1996.

Ewalt, Margaret R. Peripheral wonders: Nature, knowledge, and enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Orinoco. Associated University Presse, 2008.

Pérez-Mejía, Ángela. A geography of hard times: narratives about travel to South America, 1780-1849. SUNY Press, 2004.

Downs, Robert Bingham. Landmarks in science: Hippocrates to Carson. Libraries Unlimited, 1982. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abue.chowdhury (talk • contribs) 05:54, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]