Dec 15, 2024
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News today: My boss is shocked that I, a Geographer, can measure things on a map. Apparently only engineers like him can do that.
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.
On the 15th of April 1641 Sir Robert Sibbald, physician and geographer was born.
His mother was Margaret Boyd, eldest daughter of Robert Boyd of Kipps, Linlithgowshire and it was to there they fled when Robert was still a bairn, escaping an outbreak of the plague in the Capital.
In his autobiography, Sibbald describes his mother as: 'a virtuous and pious matron of great sagacity and firmness of mind and very careful of my education'. She died at Kipps, leaving the estate to Robert.
Following a theological course in Edinburgh, Sibbald studied medicine in Leyden and Paris, and from Angiers he obtained his licence to practise medicine.
His first appointment was as Geographer Royal for Scotland to Charles II, and he was knighted at Holyrood Palace in 1682. In 1685 he was appointed the first Professor of Medicine (without salary) to Edinburgh University.
He established the first botanical and physic garden in the yards of Holyrood Abbey for instructing students in botany and supplying apothecaries with vegetable "materia medica."
can you see through the fog can you find the blue i wanna buy what you're selling, baby but all i see is you (blue obsession)
