![]() ![]() He simply was, as one contemporary put it, 'the greatest man since the Deluge'. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story: Humboldt explored deep into the rainforest, climbed the world's highest volcanoes and inspired princes and presidents, scientists and poets alike. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. ![]() The invention of nature : the adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science / Andrea Wulf Book Bib IDīook, Online - Google BooksĪlexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. ![]()
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