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Month: June 2019

June 23, 2019
Humboldt, Yanomamis, and Charles

Humboldt, Yanomamis, and Charles

One of Charles’s favorite painters, Frederic Edwin Church’s work was greatly influenced by one of his favorite scientists – Alexander von Humboldt, the Prussian naturalist. I’ve been reading a newly published graphic novel by Andrea Wulf, The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt and her Humboldt biography The Invention of Nature and have discovered some interesting things Humboldt …

June 14, 2019
What’s Better than Being in a Library?

What’s Better than Being in a Library?

Answer: Being in a library in a castle! As a child during World War II, Charles was in awe of the small Southern Moravian town on the Oslava River where his family fled in the months leading up to the outbreak of the war. Náměšť nad Oslavou was full of historical treasures, art works and …

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