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''For centuries men went to travel unknown places yearning to discover new countries and continents and to get an overview of the diversity of the flora and fauna.''<br> | |||
''From Vasco da Gama, Christoph Columbus and Magellan to Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the great explorers shaped our view on the Earth and its nature.'' <br> | |||
''Today there not much left to explore on planet Earth, it seems that there are no white areas on the map of the world anymore.'' | |||
''No plant that hasn't been named and shipped to different botanical gardens all over the world,no animal that hasn't been sorted in genetically.'' | |||
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''But societies satisfied need for knowledge did not keep '''Peter Lachmann''', one of the last polymaths, from forming his own impression of Planet earth.'' | |||
''Born and grown up Dresden, a humble city of Sciences, he had an early urge to explore nature and everything thats creeping and crawling.''<br> | |||
''In the course of the last years he travelled the farest corners of the Earth, wandered lonely mountains and deserts, fought his way through jungles and swamps that had never been crossed by a human being before.'' | |||
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''What he brought back from this journeys made the world of Science gasp with surprise.'' | |||
''Not only was our whole view of the world wrong and incomplete,'' | |||
''he also had discovered a vast variety of new species that had been ignored by previous researchers.'' | |||
''One of his greatest discoveries until today is the skull of the extinct dwarf-elephant Elephas Minimus Petrii, the Missing Link between elephant and mouse, that had its natrual habitat on the Ticaya Islands. | |||
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''Responsible for the custody and cataloguing of this and various other amazing rarities is the "'''Science Museum of Amazing Rare Things'''", '' | |||
''which was founded for this sole purpose.'' ''This trunk is its mobile exhibition and depot.'' | |||
''Have fun exploring this unusual collection!'' | |||
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''Der Großteil der Objekte ist eine Leihgabe | ''Der Großteil der Objekte ist eine Leihgabe aus Peter Lachmanns Privatsammlung. | ||
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