The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner
The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else including towns, rivers, mountain ranges, a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon.
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Before Longitude no one remembered John Harrison. The Invention of Nature does the same for Alexander von Humboldt