Alex de benedetti biography of christopher columbus
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The Century end Columbus
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The Online Books Page
Columbus, Christopher -- Diaries
See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.
Broader terms:- The Journal of Christopher Columbus (During His First Voyage, 1492-93), and Documents Relating the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1893), by Christopher Columbus, ed. by Clements R. Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain (Boston: T. E. Wait and Son, 1827), by Christopher Columbus, ed. by Bartolomé de las Casas, trans. by Samuel Kettell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Personal narrative of the first voyage of Columbus to America. From a manuscript recently discovered in Spain. (T. B. Wait and Son, 1827), by Christopher Columbus, Samuel Kettell, Bartolomé de las Casas, Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress), and John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Personal narrative of the first voyage of Columbus to America : from a manuscript recently discovered in Spain (Published by T.B. Wait and Son, and sold by Wait, Greene and Co., Boston, and C. Arvill, New-York, and Carey and
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Alexander von Humboldt
German geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
For other uses, see Alexander von Humboldt (disambiguation).
Alexander von Humboldt
Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler (1843)
Born 14 September 1769 Berlin, Prussia, Holy Roman Empire
Died 6 May 1859(1859-05-06) (aged 89) Berlin, Prussia, German Confederation
Resting place Schloss Tegel Alma mater University of Frankfurt (Oder)
University of Göttingen
Freiberg School of Mines (diploma, 1792)Known for Biogeography, Kosmos (1845–1862), Humboldt Current, magnetic storm, Humboldtian science, Berlin Romanticism[1] Awards Copley Medal (1852) Scientific career Fields Geography Academic advisors Markus Herz, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Abraham Gottlob Werner Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt[a] (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.[5] He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguistWilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835).[6][7][8] Humboldt's quantitative work on botanicalgeography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography, whi