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Giacomo Doria
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Born November 1, 1840 • La Spezia • Sardinia
Died September 19, 1913 (aged 72) • Genoa • Italy
Antoine-Thomson d’Abbadie
French geographer
Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
British geographer
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
La Condamine, bust by d'Huez, 18th century
Charles-Marie de La Condamine
French naturalist and mathematician
Heinrich Barth
Heinrich Barth
German geographer and explorer
David Thompson
English explorer
Scylax Of Caryanda
Greek explorer
Isaiah Bowman
American geographer and educator
Douglas Freshfield
British explorer
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
Italian explorer
Marco Polo
Marco Polo
Italian explorer
Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci
Italian navigator
John Cabot
John Cabot
Italian explorer
Bernardino Telesio
Italian philosopher and scientist
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Italian navigator

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Buzz Aldrin. Apollo 11. Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Aldrin, photographed July 20, 1969, during the first manned mission to the Moon's surface. Reflected in Aldrin's faceplate is the Lunar Module and astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took the picture.
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