Visualization of Travels
| Alexander von Humboldt was one of the first explorers, who travelled around the world and described precisely, what he found and discovered. | Google Earth is a free new program that makes it easy to view geographical data from the entire world. The Humboldt Digital Library has used this program to create a map of Humboldt’s travels throughout the New World. Included are important places, images and paintings from artists, text descriptions, maps and lines marking Humboldt’s approximate path. This tool allows the user to see the journey chronologically, something is not always easy when following his written works. The Google Earth helps users appreciate Humboldt's writings and accomplishments in a visual fashion and dig deeper by linking the displayed information with text from the digital library. If you already have Google Earth: Click on Digital Library Alexander von Humboldt If you do not have Google Earth installed on your computer or are otherwise having difficulty, click here. |
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