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Wilko Graf von Hardenberg


Modern historian, unexpected geek, wannabe naturalist, sauntering explorer, couchsurfing scholar, and more.

Author of A Monastery for the Ibex, co-author of Mussolini's Nature, co-editor of The Nature State.


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9 May 2011

Of scavenger hunts, great cities and Descartes

I have recently been involved in a scavenger hunt for the correct attribution of a quote that has been circulating unchecked in anglophone books over the last 20 years. Here is the storify'ed tale of this hunt.


[View the story "The inventory of the possible (attributions)" on Storify]

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