Probably no scholar in the 19th century was portrayed more frequently, no scientist fired the imagination of his contemporaries as much as he, and none were the subject of such admiration. He travelled the Rio Negro, the Casiquiare and the Orinoco in Indian boats, and claimed to have set the human altitude record after climbing the Chimborazo, then considered the world's highest mount

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Alexander von Humboldt: The "last universal scholar", "the greatest naturalist explorer of all time", "the king of the sciences", "the greatest geographer of the Modern Age", "the first ecologist", "the focus of attention at the salon", "a talkative diplomat", an "adventurer", a "cosmopolitan", "revolutionary", "patron", "communicator", "myth", "cliché" … an "icon"?

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