In the history of exploration, Augustin Saint-Hilaire is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Augustin Saint-Hilaire as French botanist and traveler (1779–1853).
Augustin Saint-Hilaire was born at Orléans in 1779. His recorded nationality is France.
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, pteridologist and botanist.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Augustin Saint-Hilaire died in 1853, aged 74. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Recorded as explorer, pteridologist and botanist
