#Alexander von Humboldt

[irenydraws]

tfw du die welt vermisst or whatever (for @thegoodthebadandtheart!)

[ltwilliammowett]

Alexander von Humboldt

With her distinctive green hull and sails

[legerescriptor]

Ich bin zurück! Ja, ja, es hat ewig gedauert, bis endlich ein neues Kapitel Gib den Sternen einen Namen rauskam... Ja, ich weiß, das letzte ist Monate her... Aber! Ich habe keine Ausrede. Sondern nur das Versprechen, dass ich die nächsten 7-8 Kapitel bereits geschrieben habe und deshalb die nächsten Wochen gesichert sind. Ich werde wieder alle zwei Wochen hochladen, damit ich hoffentlich auch mit den Kapitel danach hinterherkomme und nicht wieder so eine lange Pause dazwischen ist. Aber fürs Erste: Kapitel 11

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53844364/chapters/165886879

(Ich weiß nicht, warum es den Link so anzeigt und wenn ich es herausfinde, werde ich es fixen. Fürs Erste geht es wohl leider nicht anders)

[celestialmazer]

"A cyanometer (from cyan and -meter) is an instrument for measuring "blueness", specifically the colour intensity of blue sky. It is attributed to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt. It consists of squares of paper dyed in graduated shades of blue and arranged in a color circle or square that can be held up and compared to the color of the sky."

Cyanometer art work

A monument to the blueness of the sky

by Martin Bricelj Baraga - Ljubljana, Slovenia

Atlas Obscura article

Archimedes-lab.org article

Wikipedia

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Die gefährlichste aller Weltanschauungen ist die der Leute, welche die Welt nie angeschaut haben.

The most dangerous of all worldviews is that of people who have never looked at the world.

Alexander von Humboldt (1769 – 1859), German natural scientist

[tgtbata]

flower press

[mercedes-lenz]

stell dir vor dein bruder reist nach südamerika wo er nicht nur die naturwissenschaften vorantreibt sondern sich auch mit indigenen völkern auseinandersetzt und dafür einsteht dass es genauso menschen sind wie alle anderen auch und du sitzt jahre später da und redest darüber wie ihre sprache (die du nie gehört hast) schlechter ist als deine und nennst sie immernoch "wilde" und ungebildet

[kelvinthegoatt]

Commission

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

Alright, from the University of Paris' virtual exhibition on the Humboldt brothers:

And Napoleon disliked him personally (from the Smithsonian):

And for what it is worth, he is also a link between the two brackets, as he was given honorary Mexican citizenship after Mexican independence because of his important scientific work.

Here's a statue of him in Mexico City:

[lalalaugenbrot]

how it started [1787]:

how it's going [≥1836]:

[fuzzkaizer]

"Cold war Experimental weapons.

Development of weapons and prototypes during the Cold War was a trend widely explored by Russians and Americans, with few proof of its existence being known to the public.

Fig1. Russian disintegrator ray AF-15. When fired, it eradicated all traces of the target in less than a second. Fig2. M -105 paralyzing gun developed by the American militia. It could immobilize a target for 36 hours."

cuidado que el tal artista Juan Osorno dedica al Tratado de Humbold unos contribuciones ficticios, tal vez para implicar su critica al projecto enciclopédico...

cred: behance.net/El-tratado-de-Humboldt-The-Humboldt-treaty

[ltwilliammowett]

Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt is a German sailing ship originally built in 1906 by the German shipyard AG Weser at Bremen as the lightship Reserve Sonderburg. She was operated throughout the North and Baltic Seas until being retired in 1986. Since 2016, she has been an event and hotel ship with a restaurant in Bremen. Her sister Alexander von Humboldt II has taken over her sailing duties.

[historicconfessions]

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Die Deutschen brauchen für jede Dummheit zweihundert Jahre; hundert, um sie zu begehen, und hundert um sie einzusehen.

The Germans need two hundred years for every stupid thing: a hundred years to commit it and a hundred years to realize it.

Alexander von Humboldt (1769 – 1859), German polymath, geographer, naturalist, and explorer

[empirearchives]

Description of Napoleon Bonaparte by the naturalist and explorer, Alexander von Humboldt:

Source: A History of France, by John Julius Norwich

[portrait-paintings]

Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt

Artist: Joseph Karl Stieler (German, 1781–1858)

Date: 1843

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Charlottenhof Palace, Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany

Alexander von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography, while his advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement pioneered modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. Humboldt and Carl Ritter are both regarded as the founders of modern geography as they established it as an independent scientific discipline.