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ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT (GERMAN POLYMATH, GEOGRAPHER, NATURALIST, SCIENTIST AND EXPLORER 1769-1859): SIGNED AUTOGRAPH NOTES,
This writing has interesting scientific content / observations / comments, including notes that appears to read:
‘Life restored - Moisture has revived some … after a torpidity of 27 years’
‘Gastric juices’
‘Abstinence - … of mind takes place as of body’
A comment on ‘... Jaws, Teeth & Stomach - adapted to the carnivorous / herbivorous’
‘Support of nature - 1750-1000 abyssinians travelling subsisted on … for two months’
‘A spider has lived upon the sulphate of zinc’
‘The Ottomans eat large quantities of baked earth during some months of the year’
Humboldt was one of the most prominent scientists of his time. Among other achievements, he was one of the first to theorise the drifting of landmasses via plate tectonics and mapped the distribution of plants on three continents. He also made observations on the impacts of local, human-induced climate change. He is known to some as ‘the father of ecology’ and ‘the father of environmentalism’. He was celebrated amongst his peers and those that followed, including Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He provided travel narratives and monographs on astronomy, botany, geology, mineralogy and zoology.
16cm x 13cm
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