In the history of exploration, Arthur Carl Victor Schott is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Arthur Carl Victor Schott as German-American artist, topographical engineer, cartographer, botanist and geologist (1814–1875).
Arthur Carl Victor Schott was born at Stuttgart in 1814. His recorded nationality is United States.
Enlightenment expeditions carried naturalists and instruments; the Pacific was charted with chronometers and the intention of measuring, not merely claiming.
He is recorded as botanist, cartographer and engineer.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Arthur Carl Victor Schott died in 1875, aged 61. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as botanist, cartographer and engineer
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