Author: Turpin, Pierre Jean François (1775-1840) (del.) and François Noël Sellier ( sculp)
Title: Fucus Vitifolius and Hirtus [Seaweed] for Alexander Von Humboldt's Latin American Voyage: Plantes équinoxiales
Description: Paris: 1809. Engraving. Plate 69. 50 x 33; printed at the l'imprimerie de Langlois. Published in: Humboldt, A. von & Bonpland, A.[J.G.B.] (1809). Plantes équinoxiales recueillies au Mexique: dans l'île de Cuba, dans les provinces de Caracas, de Cumana et de Barcelone, aux Andes de la Nouvelle Grenade, de Quito et du Pérou, et sur les bords du rio-Negro de Orénoque et de la rivière des Amazones. Vol. 2 pp. [i-v], [i]-191, pl. 66-97, 98 ['97'], 99-140. Paris: F. Schoell Alexander von Humboldt's Latin American expedition of 1799-1804. Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time from a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. Humboldt was one of the first people to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular). Humboldt resurrected the use of the word cosmos from the ancient Greek and assigned it to his multi-volume treatise, Kosmos, in which he sought to unify diverse branches of scientific knowledge and culture. This important work also motivated a holistic perception of the universe as one interacting entity. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books. Berkeley. .

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