A Conversation with David Valerio
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)
The Invention of Nature by John Trbroxo
He was so accurate in his measurements of like plants that his measurements are still used today, right? Like to find out. There's some crazy story about like, he got to some certain height and all of his like indigenous guides are like, no fucking way your shoes are falling apart if you keep going. And he just kept going and they left it basically. That climb. He's just like, and then apparently he had like a bit, you know, a vision at the top when he could,. The last true polymath who did really know everything about like, or not everything but like no, be an expert in like kind of fields of studies.
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