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ltwilliammowett · 11 months
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Stormy seas - Bark Alexander von Humboldt off Cape Horn, 2006 
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beloved-icarus · 11 months
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How sexy is this Romantic poet?
A very serious ranking by me
(Starting of with German poets because why not)
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And of course German literature's Ernie and Bert:
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(pls don't take this too seriously, I'm currently crying over my Romayic poetry coursework and need something else to think about)
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empirearchives · 11 months
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Description of Napoleon Bonaparte by the naturalist and explorer, Alexander von Humboldt:
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Source: A History of France, by John Julius Norwich
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lalalaugenbrot · 3 months
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Some little doodles and drawings in Alexander von Humboldt's travel journals and other manuscripts
wax palms, 1830
mirrored image of a nearby tower, 1800
Grus star constellation, 1799
a manicule: a hand (literally) pointing to another page, 1799
compass needle doing compass needle things, 1799
a leaf, 1799
a palm tree, shrubbery and a cow that looks like a donkey appear to be floating in the air above the sea due to a mirage, 1799
grass and liana, 1830
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mapsontheweb · 1 year
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Hypsometric sketch of the Andes. By Alexander von Humboldt, 1831.
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noturbysshe · 6 months
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Had to make a separate post for them. My good-time boys <3
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The history of the globe instructs us, that volcanoes destroy what they have been a long series of ages in creating.
Alexander von Humboldt
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lindahall · 2 years
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Alexander von Humboldt – Scientist of the Day
Alexander von Humboldt, a German explorer and naturalist, was born Sep. 14, 1769, in Berlin.  
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flowers-and-fichte · 11 months
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Before I start a new book, I usually pore through it to see if I like it enough. This time it's Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, about the Jena Romantics. It looks very good, and she did an interview over on the podcast "The Rest is History" about it, titled "Germans Behaving Badly".
But then there are the chapter titles: The first is titled "'A happy event' Summer 1794: Goethe and Schiller". That sounds like the beginning of a Schoethe rom-com. Something tells me I'll be getting a fare share of slander about my OTP here.
Chapter 5 is "'Philosophy is originally a feeling' Summer 1796: Novalis in Love" and if that doesn't get me all warm and fuzzy about our boy Fritz and his wholesomeness, I don't know what does.
Chapter 6 (part of the title anyway) is "The Schlegels Arrive" which is funny for some reason.
Then there's Scandals Parts One and Two. AKA German Romanticism is a soap opera.
Which it was.
Long story short, I think I'm going to love this book as will all my mutuals, especially the Schoethe enthusiasts and other fans of this movement.
@poesia-storica @maybe-today-satan @karl-von-moor-official @noturbysshe @keo6232 @apfelhalm @mike-the-jewel @smash-schoetheisreal @eolewyn1010 @fanpersoningfox that means all of you
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blankvers · 11 months
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Finally, I have read „Das Erlkönig-Manöver“ too.
You were all right: It was hella well written, it was emotionally consuming and it didn’t let me go in the final quarter. It was full of unexpectedness and sass, and some scenes were cute, some scenes were funny. And the thing with Alex and Kleist, holy moly! It was the craziest Fanfiction I’ve ever read.
But… Schoethe Fandom, please don’t hate me for this:
All in all, I did not enjoy reading it.
The final quarter of the book was it. Yes, it did hold me tight, but it was way too much at once for me. Too much randomness. Too many incompleted plottwists and hostile turns, it was… Exhausting, in the unsatisfactory way.
The cold, one-sided way Goethe was written bothered me too. The sass was superb, absolutely. But I didn‘t like his flat „old-horny-man“ character. Fuck yes, he was an old horny man. But he kinda was the only person in the story who did not receive a deeper character insight (except for the end). I would have expected more behind-the-shell-scenes of him. He kinda was just there. He was too distanced and casual to Schiller, too anti-social, he was written like a least likable character with low development, so it seemed to me. And the thing with him and Bettine was… extremely uncanny and unfitting.
In general, the entire group dynamic felt off to me.
The (ow, ow, ow) ending didn’t make it better, it abandoned me in an unsatisfactory heart-ouch.
The action at the end was exiting. But still, to much hostility between the main characters and in the story itself. Too much of everything dashing in.
I swear, Manöver-Fans, I’m not a Kunstbanause x,D
It just wasn’t my sauce.
I liked „Durch Nacht Und Wind“ better.
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archivist-crow · 1 month
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On this day:
MARINE MODULATIONS
On February 20, 1803, scientist Alexander von Humboldt and his expedition were onboard ship near the equator when the sound of beating drums filled the air. As recorded in Nature magazine, May 19, 1870:
“On the 20th of February, 1803, toward seven in the evening, the whole crew were astounded by an extraordinary noise, which resembled that of drums beating in the air. It was at first attributed to the breakers. Speedily it was heard in the vessel, and especially toward the poop. It was like a boiling, the noise of the air which escapes from fluid in a state of ebullition. They then began to fear that there was some leak in the vessel. It was heard unceasingly in all parts of the vessel, and finally, about nine oclock it ceased altogether.”
No reasonable explanation was ever discovered for this phenomenon, although it was similar to the "Grey Town Noises" heard off the Atlantic coast near Trinidad.
These noises had been reported as a "peculiar metallic vibratory sound...musical…with a certain cadence, and a one-two-three time tendency of beat," and it was stated that they could only be heard in iron ships and not in wooden ones. The famous novelist Charles Kingsley wrote that the sound was "like a locomotive in the distance rattling as it blows off steam." Kingsley said that it could be heard in wooden ships as well as iron ones.
Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009
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tierseta · 1 year
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Though they brought much new knowledge to light, the activities of these explorers (18th-century European scientists) in many ways represented a re-conquest of Latin America, an inevitable result of the fact that the mapping, representation, and documentation of the region and its people was largely pursued by Europeans rather than locals. Such expeditions by outsiders contributed to the idea that Europeans were the sole “creators” of scientific knowledge.
Even if some Latin Americans did pursue such projects, their views of the territory were shaped in part by European modes of thought and representation: the perspective of the outsider looking in. And despite the existence and growth of scientific interest among locals, explorers, for their part, still preferred to romanticize Latin America “as a primal world of nature, an unclaimed and timeless space occupied by plants and creatures (some of them human), but not organized by societies and economies; a world whose only history was the one about to begin.”
Early Scientific Exploration in Latin America, Dr. Maya Jiménez, 2019
link to the article
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empirearchives · 4 months
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Napoleon calling the astronomer Lalande “grandpapa”
‘Bonaparte attends with great regularity the sittings of the National Institute, of which he is a member.’ ‘Bonaparte,’ he writes further, on April 20, 1798, ‘always calls me his grandpapa, because he is a pupil of D’Agelet, who again was a pupil of mine. I have begged him to use his influence with the Directory to obtain the removal of the Opera House, which in case of fire is dangerously near the Library. I also suggested the purchase of Paulmy’s admirable library, consisting of 100,000 volumes, and recommended that some new instruments and an increase of salary be granted to Thulis at Marseilles—all of which has been accomplished.’
*both of Napoleon’s actual grandfathers died young before he was born
Source: Life of Alexander von Humboldt (1872), Vol. 1, Pg. 233, Karl Bruhns (ed.), Jane Lassell (trans.) and Caroline Lassell (trans.)
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lalalaugenbrot · 10 months
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ich dachte ja immer alex wär ein bisschen verrückt oder man hätte das früher vielleicht noch so gesagt, weil er immer von den "tigern" im südamerikanischen dschungel erzählt hat und ja auch das eine erlebnis mit einem hatte (wobei ich mir grad nicht sicher bin, ob der da nicht tatsächlich doch jaguar sagt?), aber jedenfalls hab ich gerade einen kolumbianischen artikel bzgl. der im dschungel wiedergefundenen kinder gelesen und da schreiben sie tatsächlich auch:
...con el paso del tiempo tuvieron que aprender a dormir con las arañas, y con el sonido del tigre, que sabían que siempre estaba cerca. ...mit der Zeit mussten sie [der Suchtrupp] lernen zusammen mit den Spinnen zu schlafen und mit den Geräuschen des 'Tigers' [Jaguars], der, wie sie wussten, immer in der Nähe war.
alex ist also hiermit förmlich entschuldigt 🐆
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poesia-storica · 1 year
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Just because Alex and Aimé need more attention and I was bored..
Some love after (during) a rough time in jungle :)
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Because I'm kind: gift for @legerescriptor :)
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