In the history of exploration, Grafton Tyler Brown is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Grafton Tyler Brown as American artist and cartographer (1841-1918).
Grafton Tyler Brown was born at Harrisburg in 1841. 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 cartographer, painter and lithographer.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Grafton Tyler Brown died in 1918, aged 77. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as cartographer, painter and lithographer
