Kosmos

One of the christmas presents was Kosmos a new edition for a reprint of Alexander von Humboldts physical description of the world including his four year explorations of Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Mexico.
It is a masterpiece for a discipline that was called Erdkunde, world science, as new geography and vulcanology and geology evolved.

For the 200 th birthday and 150th jubilee of Darwins "origins of species" it is the counteropiece, one tends to biology, the other to geography and the earth sciences.

Proof is, updating the data, it is also, correcting the mistakes, switching from the bibliophil outlook and production techniques for a classic to a review and correction.