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Humboldt hopes to measure everything on the planet, perhaps as a way of mastering a world that he can't seem to participate in normally: "Whenever things were frightening," he writes, "it was a good idea to measure them."

— Book Review by Ron Charles, About Alexander von Humboldt  

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