Abstract

GOMEZ-GUTIERREZ, Alberto. Considerations on the first printed article on the geography of plants by Alexander von Humboldt, published in Havana in May 1804. Rev. acad. colomb. cienc. exact. fis. nat. [online]. 2021, vol.45, n.177, pp.1192-1204.  Epub Feb 20, 2022. ISSN 0370-3908.  https://doi.org/10.18257/raccefyn.1583.

Alexander von Humboldt has been considered by many as the pioneer of biogeography, and the work that has placed him in the popular imagination as the first biogeographer was first published between 1805 and 1807 in Paris, under the title Essai sur la géographie des plantes. On Wednesday 2 May 1804, a short notice appeared in a newspaper in Havana, Cuba, as: "Physical geography. Ideas on the lower limit of the perpetual snow, and on the geography of plants: by Mr. Baron de Humboldt, translated from French into Spanish by A. R." (in spanish). This article included a final section on the limits of snow and vegetation and would constitute Humboldt's first reference to the geography of plants printed in America.

Keywords : Biogeography; Physical geography; Andean Cordillera; Havana; Alexander von Humboldt.

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