Microscopes were also in the arsenal of early biological explorers such as Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin ... is an oceanographic research ship re-equipped with advanced imaging ...

He reads and rereads Alexander von Humboldt's inspiring account of his ... A crew of more than 60 men will squeeze into a ship 90 feet long and 24 feet wide. Charles will share a 10-by-11-foot ...

Alexander von Humboldt was a naturalist and explorer whose books about his travels won legions of admirers, among them the young Charles Darwin. Andrea Wulf, who wrote the biography The Invention ...