Southern amerika. Alexander gumboldt

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Alexander Humboldt has given to geography very many as it was not only the large traveller, but also the person conceding on scientific preparation only very to few researchers in all history of geography. It used results of the travel to put in pawn bases of physical geography and meteorology in that kind in what they are taught till now. As other large scientist of XIX century, Lui Agassis, ' everywhere where only the geography is taught on the modern scientific bases was expressed, any schoolboy eats Humboldt's ideas '.

Humboldt was pupil Verner and university companion Leopold a background-buha. He travelled across England and Rhine with Forsterom; it studied meteorology in Paris where has got acquainted with the future companion of the travel-bonplanom. Humboldt has left Spanish port Koruni on June, 5th, 1799 and has landed in Cumana (port of Venezuela) on July, 16th.

' I long prepared, he-wrote,-to manufacture supervision which were main nelju my travel to an equatorial zone. At my order there were the tools easy and convenient in circulation made skilled mechanics, and I was under special protection of the local government which not only did not put obstacles to my travel, but constantly showed to me all respect and trust. The courageous both formed friend was my employee, and our general work by much is obliged by the success to its zealous diligence and the endurance, not changing to it during any moments of deprivations and dangers to which we sometimes were exposed '.