Johann Georg Gmelin
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Johann Georg Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist and geographer.
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Paeonia anomala L. from Flora Sibirica
Great Northern Expedition
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The Great Northern Expedition or Second Kamchatka Expedition was a major Russian Arctic expedition between roughly 1733 and 1743, which mapped most of the Arctic coast of Siberia and much of the Arcti
Johann Georg Gmelin
…Christian Buxbaum's (1693–1730) Centuria were published posthumously by Gmelin. Gmelin was elected one out of three professors to join Vitus Bering’s Second Kamchatka Expedition (1733–1743). During the early part of the expedition - leaving St Petersburg in August 1733 - he was accompanied by the young student Stepan Krasheninnikov…
Vitus Bering
Contemporary depiction of the main building of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. Plate entitled Cross-section of the imperial library and art room towards morning, taken from a series of twelve etchings published in 1741. They were the first collaborative work from the workshops of the St. Petersburg academy.
1957 Soviet stamp depicting the Bering voyage
Johann Georg Gmelin