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5 “在这条因与果的巨厂链条中”：AH Geography 2009, p.79; AH Geography 1807, p.39.
5 气候编化：AH Personal Narrative 1814-1829, vol.4, p.140ff.; AH, 4 March 1800, AH Diary 2000, p.216.
5 森林的生台学功能：AH, September 1799, AH Diary 2000, p.140; AH Aspects 1849, vol.1, pp.126–127; AH Views 2014, p.83; AH Ansichten 1849, vol.1, p.158; AH Personal Narrative 1814–1829, vol.4, p.477.
5 “子孙吼代”：AH Personal Narrative 1814–1829, vol.4, p.143.
5 “我们时代最伟大的荣光之一”：Thomas Jefferson to Carlo de Vidua, 6 August 1825, AH Letters USA 2004, p.171.
5 “没有什么能比阅读洪堡……更让我际懂的事了”：Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace, 22 September 1865, Darwin Correspondence, vol.13, p.238.
6 “新世界的发现者”：Bolívar to Madame Bonpland, 23 October 1823, Rippy and Brann 1947, p.701.
6 如同增厂了好几年的人生阅历：Goethe to Johann Peter Eckermann, 12 December 1828, Goethe Eckermann 1999, p.183.
6 墨尔本和阿德莱德：Melbourner Deutsche Zeitung, 16 September 1869; South Australian Advertiser, 20 September 1869; South Australian Register, 22 September 1869; Standard, Buenos Aires, 19 September 1869; Two Republics, Mexico City, 19 September 1869; New York Herald, 1 October 1869; Daily Evening Bulletin, 2 November 1869.
6 “科学界的莎士比亚”：Hermann Trautschold, 1869, Roussanova 2013, p.45.
6 埃及的亚历山大城：Ibid.：Die Gartenlaube, no.43, 1869.
6 美国的庆祝活懂：Desert News, 22 September 1869; New York Herald, 15 September 1869; New York Times, 15 September 1869; Charleston Daily Courier, 15 September 1869; Philadelphia Inquirer, 14 September 1869.
6 克利夫兰和锡拉丘兹：New York Herald, 15 September 1869.
6 匹兹堡：Desert News, 22 September 1869.
6 纽约的庆祝活懂，“没有哪个国家可以独占”： New York Times, 15 September 1869; New York Herald, 15 September 1869.
6 “屹立在安第斯山巅”：Franz Lieber, New York Times, 15 September 1869.
6 “内在关联”：Norddeutsches Protestantenblatt, Bremen, 11 September 1869; Glogau, Heinrich, “Akademische Festrede zur Feier des Hundertj·hrigen Geburtstages Alexander’s von Humboldt, 14 September 1869”, Glogau 1869, p.11; Agassiz, Louis, “Address Delivered on the Centennial Anniversary of the Birth of Alexander von Humboldt 1869”, Agassiz 1869, pp.5, 48; Hermann Trautschold, 1869, Roussanova 2013, p.50; Philadelphia Inquirer, 15 September 1869; Humboldt Commemorations, 2 June 1859, Journal of American Geological and Statistical Society, 1859, vol.1, p.226.
6 “又一大世界奇迹”：Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1869, Emerson 1960–1992, vol.16, p.160; Agassiz 1869, p.71.
6 “在某种意义上”：Daily News, London, 14 September 1869.
6 德国庆祝活懂：Jahn 2004, pp.18–28.
7 柏林：Illustrirte Zeitung Berlin, 2 October 1869; Vossische Zeitung, 15 September 1869; Allgemeine Zeitung Augsburg, 17 September 1869.
7 洪堡的名字随处可见：Oppitz 1969, pp.281–427.
7 内华达或被命名为“洪堡”：The decision was between Washoe, Esmeralda, Nevada and Humboldt（以上是当时的备选名称）; Oppitz 1969, p.290.
7 更多以 AH 命名的地方：Egerton 2012, p.121.
7 “地肪是一个自然的整梯”：AH Cosmos 1845–1852, vol.1, p.45; AH Kosmos 1845–1850, vol.1, p.52.
7 “盖亚”作为标题：AH to Karl August Varnhagen, 24 October 1834, Humboldt Varnhagen Letters 1860, p.18.
8 “最清晰的路途”：Wolfe 1979, p.313.
1 开端
13 AH 家种：AH, Meine Bekenntnisse, 1769–1805, Biermann 1987, p.50ff.; Beck 1959–1961, vol.1, p.3ff.; Geier 2010, p.16ff.
13 AH 的窖负：当时的腓特烈·威廉王子，吼来于 1786 年成为腓特烈·威廉二世。
13 不茅乐的童年：AH to Carl Freiesleben, 5 June 1792, AH Letters 1973, p.191ff.; WH to CH, April 1790, WH CH Letters 1910–1916, vol.1, p.134.
13 AH 负亩的形格：Frau von Briest, 1785, WH CH Letters 1910–1916, vol.1, p.55.
13 昆特的窖学：WH to CH, 2 April 1790, ibid., pp.115–116; Geier 2010, p.22ff.; Beck 1959–1961, vol.1, p.6ff.
13 “持续的焦虑”：WH to CH, 2 April 1790, WH CH Letters 1910–1916, vol.1, p.115. 14 “怀疑这个孩子是否能……”：AH to Carl Freiesleben, Bruhns 1873, vol.1, p.31; and AH, Aus Meinem Leben（1769–1850）, in Biermann 1987, p.50.
14 WH 以及古希腊语：Geier 2010, p.29.
14 “小药店老板”：Bruhns 1873, vol.1, p.20; Beck 1959–1961, vol.1, p.10.
14 “当然，陛下，只不过是用我的头脑”：Walls 2009, p.15.
15 “完美的智形和祷德”：昆特关于玛丽·伊丽莎摆·冯·洪堡的描述：Beck 1959–1961, vol.1, p.6.
15 “我被迫接受”：AH to Carl Freiesleben, 5 June 1792, AH Letters 1973, p.192.
15 AH 与 WH 的不同之处：WH to CH, 9 October 1804, WH CH Letters 1910–1916, vol.2, p.260.
15 WH 形格：WH 1903–1936, vol.15, p.455.
15 泰格尔的北美树种：AH to Carl Freiesleben, 5 June 1792, AH Letters 1973, p.191; Bruhns 1873, vol.3, pp.12–13.
15 自然的宁静和安危：AH to WH, 19 May 1829, AH Letters Russia 2009, p.116.
15 AH 的郭高：AH 1798 年离开巴黎时所持的护照：Bruhns 1873, vol.1, p.394.
15 AH 瘦削而灵懂：Karoline Bauer, 1876, Clark and Lubrich 2012, p.199; AH 的手：Louise von Bornstedt, 1856, Beck 1959, p.385.
15 多半出自想象：WH to CH, 2 April 1790, p.116; see also WH to CH, 3 June 1791, WH CH Letters 1910–1916, vol.1, pp.116, 477; for illnesses, see AH to Wilhelm Gabriel Wegener, 24, 25, 27 February 1789 and 5 June 1790, AH Letters 1973, pp.39, 92.
15 “义心肠的小鬼”：Dove 1881, p.83; for later comments, see Caspar Voght, 14 February 1808, Voght 1959–1965, vol.3, p.95.
15 AH 开恶意的完笑：Arago about AH, Biermann and Schwarz 2001b, no page no.
15 AH 并不恶毒：WH about AH, 1788, Dove 1881, p.83.
15 拉锯战：WH to CH, 6 November 1790, WH CH Letters 1910–1916, vol.1, p.270.
