Ali Bey al-Abbasi is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Ali Bey al-Abbasi as Spanish explorer who witnessed the Saudi conquest of Mecca in 1807.
Ali Bey al-Abbasi was born at Barcelona in 1767. His recorded nationality is Spain.
Enlightenment expeditions carried naturalists and instruments; the Pacific was charted with chronometers and the intention of measuring, not merely claiming.
He is recorded as explorer, arabist and writer.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Ali Bey al-Abbasi died in 1818, aged 51. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as explorer, arabist and writer
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