16-12-2017 21:00 via theverge.com

This collection features images from one of science’s most influential explorers

In September, publisher Kroncker Wallis Kickstarted its new edition of influential math text Euclid’s Element. The publisher has a new project that’s now funding on the platform: Illustrating Nature: The World Through the Eyes of Alexander von Humboldt is a book that collects the illustrations and notes of one of the world’s greatest scientific explorers.Born in 1769, von Humboldt was a scholar and explorer who traveled the world studying geography and biology. An early advocat
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