giovedì, dicembre 03, 2015

Carlomaria Grassi ||| Man of the world | The Economist

Once, Humboldt seemed to be on everybody’s lips; his portrait even hung
in the palace of the King of Siam. Born into an aristocratic Prussian family,
he showed an early and insatiable curiosity for the natural worlds “perpetual
drive”, he said, as if chased by “10,000 pigs” ...
 
Man of the world | The Economist

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