At The Summit Of Ararat

The 19th century was a time when humanity's hunger for the unknown reached its peak. The Age of Discoveries brought not only the mapping of new lands, but also the pushing of the limits of nature and science. Europe's greatest scientists climbed mountains, crossed oceans and traveled across continents to solve the unknown. In such an age, a man who inherited the spirit of science and discovery, Fr...

The 19th century was a time when humanity's hunger for the unknown reached its peak. The Age of Discoveries brought not only the mapping of new lands, but also the pushing of the limits of nature and science. Europe's greatest scientists climbed mountains, crossed oceans and traveled across continents to solve the unknown. In such an age, a man who inherited the spirit of science and discovery, Friedrich Parrot, made history.
Parrot was born in Karlsruhe on October 14, 1792. What distinguished him from an ordinary adventurer was that he was the son of a scientist father. His father, Georg Friedrich Parrot, was the first president of the University of Dorpat (now the University of Tartu) and a pioneering scholar in optics and physics. As a child,