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organized curiosity that occasionally returns with maps, spices, and entirely new ways to die
means The act of searching or traveling through unfamiliar territory, ideas, or possibilities to discover what's there.
from From Latin 'explorare,' to search out or investigate. The popular old story links it to hunters' cries — 'ex-' (out) plus 'plorare' (to cry out), as if scouts shouted upon spotting game — but that connection is uncertain and likely folk-flavored. What's solid is that the Romans used 'explorare' for reconnaissance and scouting, and English picked up 'exploration' through French to mean the same restless looking-around.
- longitude prize
- Britain paid a clockmaker to solve sea navigation
- deep ocean
- More humans walked the Moon than reached the Mariana Trench
- scurvy fix
- Sailors died for centuries before citrus solved it
- blank maps
- Cartographers drew monsters where knowledge ran out
- antarctica
- No human saw it until 1820, surprisingly recent
apollo 11 — neil armstrong landed on the moon, july 20 1969
magellan expedition — first circumnavigation of earth, 1519-1522
lewis and clark — mapped northwest united states, 1804-1806
endurance expedition — shackleton crossed antarctica, 1914-1917