Scientist Alexander von Humboldt was v influential and v forgettable (sad)

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By The ConversationOct 27, 2019, 12:00 pm187 pts
Alexander von Humboldt sought to see and understand everything. By the time he drew his self-portrait at age 45, Humboldt had tutored himself in every branch of science, spent more than five years on a 6,000-mile scientific trek through South America, pioneered new methods for the graphical display of…

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