Pehr Kalm
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pehr Kalm (March 6, 1716 – November 16, 1779) (in Finland also known as Pietari Kalm and in some English-language translations as Peter Kalm) was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of Carolus Linnaeus's most important students. Among his many accomplishments, Kalm can be credited for the first description of Niagara Falls written by someone trained as a scientist. Kalm was born in Angermanland, Sweden, where his parents had taken refuge from Finland during the Great Northern War. His father died six weeks after his birth. When the hostilities were over, his widowed mother returned with him to Narpes in Ostrobothnia, Finland, where Kalm's...
ISBN: 978-6-1311-2772-4
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Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
