“I never allowed myself to put opinions upon the shelf as settled for ever.”
About Joseph Blanco White
11 July 1775–20 May 1841
Joseph Blanco White was born José María Blanco y Crespo on the 11th of July, 1775, in a house on a street corner in the old Jewish quarter of Seville, not far from the city's great cathedral. He would die sixty-five years later, in May 1841, in Liverpool, a city about as different from sun-bleached Andalusia as…