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The Portico's 1781 Icones Plantarum Rariorum contains delicately coloured drawings such as this of the flower salsify (or goatsbeard).

Its compiler, Nikolaus Jacquin, traveled extensively in the Caribbean and Central America and was close with Mozart and Alexander von Humboldt.

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2023-03-29

Birthday in the park: Alexander von Humboldt..... 1769-1859, German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science...... https://t.co/EKPQejP0Gb

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2022-09-14

Did you know? The Humboldt penguin shares its name with the Humboldt Current. Both are named after the 18th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt. You can recognize a Humboldt penguin by the black band of feathers across its chest.

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2022-06-07

"Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things."

Happy birthday to Alexander von The naturalist, geographer, polymath, and explorer was born 252 years ago.

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2021-09-15

🐧 Can you name what type of penguin this is?

A Humboldt penguin! This species shares its name with the Humboldt Current. Both are named after the 18th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt. You can recognize a Humboldt penguin by the black band of feathers across its chest.

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2021-06-23

This map was created in 1823 by Alexander von Humboldt. It's the first isothermal map. Imagine creating isothermes! How cool is that! Source: https://t.co/D0vDjeYB27

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2020-09-30

Meet Luckbeak Humboldt. He is an "upstanding" and "honest" Dohwar mastermind who's on the run from his past. How long until his life as a hornswaggling rigrunner catches up with him?

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2019-09-29