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Views of nature : or, Contemplations on the sublime phenomena of creation with scientific illustrations

Title
Views of nature : or, Contemplations on the sublime phenomena of creation with scientific illustrations / by Alexander von Humboldt ; translated from the German by E.C. Otté and H.G. Bohn.
Author
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.
Publication
London : G. Bell & Sons, 1902.

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Book/TextUse in library Q171 .H863 1902Off-site

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Description
xxx, 452 pages : frontispiece (facsimile); 19 cm
Series Statement
Bohn's scientific library
Subject
  • Science
  • Physical geography
  • Plant morphology
  • sciences (philosophy)
  • physical geography
  • Travel
  • South America > Description and travel
  • South America
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Steppes and deserts -- On the cataracts of the Orinoco -- Nocturnal life of animals in the primeval forest -- Ideas for a physiognomy of plants -- On the structure and mode of action of volcanoes in different parts of the earth -- Vital force, or, The Rhodian genius -- The plateau of Caxamarca, the ancient capital of the Inca Atahuallpa, and first view of the Pacific from the ridge of the Andes.
OCLC
  • ocm12843694
  • 12843694
  • SCSB-190853
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library