Sharing that map with Jefferson may have been the single ... painting career to paint Humboldt’s portrait (Portrait of Baron von Humboldt, 1804) for his museum. The College of Physicians of ...

Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt ... in discussions of Humboldt’s scientific legacy is the role that his pioneering maps and scientific ...

when pioneering naturalist Alexander von Humboldt invented the ”thematic map.” In 1799, Humboldt set out for the New World, where he spent half a decade exploring Latin America on behalf ...