SCIENCE, NATURE AND LANDSCAPE IN ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT

Alexander von Humboldt is today claimed as the first to understand the geographic landscape in the modern sense and also as an important benchmark of ecological thinking That the conceptions of a naturalist who worked and lived between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the last wise man of the Renaissance as some have qualified him for his universal knowledge, had relevance today and that his ideas coincided with current formulations in the field of Geography and Ecology, seem was paradoxical. And same it's, on the other hand, that his ideas wouldn't have had followers in those disciplines until recent times. This paper attempts to explore the conception of Humboldt and in their origin, a task that is considered previous to truly assess their current influence.