Mount Cotopaxi, Equador, snowcapped. Aquatint by F. Arnold after Johann Georg Gmelin after Alexander von Humboldt. Humboldt (1769-1859) was a Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer. Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time in a manner generally considered to be a modern scientific point of view. His quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography.

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Mount Cotopaxi, after Humboldt, early 1800s

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