UNDERGROUND

Humboldt's impact on modern mining

This article is the first of a two-part series on Alexander von Humboldt

Sean Daly
 Humboldt and his fellow scientist Aimé Bonpland near the foot of the Chimborazo volcano, painting by Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1810)

Humboldt and his fellow scientist Aimé Bonpland near the foot of the Chimborazo volcano, painting by Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1810)

We can learn much from Humboldt. First, that even though we are in an age of specialisation in the natural sciences, we can still in a small way have a broader practice like in geology for example being...

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