Johann Reinhold Forster

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Johann Reinhold Forster

German explorer

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association with Georg Forster

In Georg Forster
Johann Reinhold Forster, he emigrated to England in 1766. Both were invited to accompany Capt. James Cook on his second voyage around the world (1772–75). Georg Forster’s account of the journey, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World (1777), was based on…
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voyage with Cook

In geography: Geography’s early research agenda in Europe
…were stimulated by the Germans Johann Reinhold Forster and his son, Georg Forster, who on James Cook’s second voyage had collated botanical and climatological data. Humboldt synthesized a vast amount of information (much of it on his travels, including five years in Central and South America) to illustrate environmental variation,…
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