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‘Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things” Alexander von Humboldt 1st June 1795, death of French anatomist and surgeon Pierre-Joseph Desault, opening an anatomy school in Paris in 1766, he became renowned for his surgical improvements, and his design and construction of surgical instruments. In 1791, he established his ‘Journal de chirurgerie’, which included his student’ most interesting cases. During the French Revolution, he was seized and imprisoned while giving an anatomical lecture in his theatre, released three days later, he returned to his anatomical study. On the 3st May 1795, he was summoned by Louis XVII’s prison guards to treat the young boy, whose father had been guillotined two years previously, he died mysteriously however the following day, with rumor claiming that he had been poisoned. These were dismissed during his autopsy which was carried out by his student Xavier Bichat, friend of the French explorer and botanist Aimé Bonpland. 5th June 1799, Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, and French explorer and botanist Aimé Bonpland; after failing to gain permission to join Napoleon Bonaparte’s, military and scientific invasion of Egypt, set sail for South America to begin their five year scientific study. The journey provides Humboldt with his foundation for the field of biogeography, and he became one of the first people to propose that South America and Africa were once part of the same continent. Humboldt’s description of the journey was published as ‘Kosmos’ in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. (Continued in the comments) #anatomical #anatomicalart #historyofanatomy #anatomy #anatomydrawing #anatomicaltheatre #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #tarot #tarotcards #darktarot #centaurs #tarotillustration #tarotillustrations #tarotart #tarotartist #historicalillustration #frenchrevolution #anatomyschool #naturalist #naturalists #naturalistsketchbook #alexandervonhumboldt #alexandervonhumboldt2 #napoleonbonaparte #napoleónbonaparte #gothictales #kosmos #historyofscience #tarothistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CPtFGVnnzBT/?utm_medium=tumblr