French Captain, Nicolas Baudin, left Le Havre in 1800, for a voyage that would have been the equivalent to sending Apollo 11 to the moon. The Age of Enlightenment at its richest, with the study of Anthropology newly described, printing techniques were becoming so sophisticated thanks to the inventiveness of artists like Pierre-Joseph Redoute, for example. The stage was set for the approximately 250,000 Natural History natural discoveries made by the voyage's artists & scientists-here are some of those as published in 1811-12.