Sharing the Earth, Take Stock of Mankind
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At the beginning of the 19th century, dividing up the planet to reveal its unity was a key objective of the fast-expanding naturalist sciences. Colonel Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Vincent, a geologist, botanist and zoologist, was also a cartographer and in 1827, he yielded a fine cartographical and raciological map of the ecumene. This double classification bespeaks a scientific mind grappling with the globalization of the earth and the French political and religious order under the Bourbon Restoration.
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