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IT is often said with some truth that this century has seen a welcome change from the last towards a desire to bring scientific knowledge and æsthetic appreciation of Nature more into line in human thought. Yet there were already signs of a change of outlook during the nineteenth century. That shrewd cosmopolitan thinker, Alexander von Hum-boldt, who helped to lay the foundations of so many of the geophysical and geographical sciences and saw so much of Nature in many lands, considered that it was not altogether possible to dissociate aesthetics from science in the study and contemplation of landscapes. As to Victorian England, it is instructive in this regard to note the respective attitudes of Tyndall and Geikie, for example, in science, and of Ruskin and Wordsworth in art and poetry.
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BONACINA, L. LANDSCAPE IMPRESSION AND THE EXTERNAL BASIS OF NATURAL BEAUTY. Nature 150, 624–627 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150624a0
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