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Cosmos, a sketch of a physical description of the universe / By Alexander von Humboldt ; translated from the German, by E.C. Otté [B.H. Paul and W.S. Dallas].

  • Alexander von Humboldt
Date:
1849
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Credit: Cosmos, a sketch of a physical description of the universe / By Alexander von Humboldt ; translated from the German, by E.C. Otté [B.H. Paul and W.S. Dallas]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    246; general delineation of its re- action, 199—201; fantastic views on its interior, 163. Harthquakes, general account of, 199 —214; their manifestations, 199— 201; of Riobamba, 199, 201, 203, 209, 211; Lisbon, 206, 207, 209, 210; Calabria, 201; their propaga- tion, 199, 208, 209; waves of com- motion, 200, 201, 208, 209; action on gaseous and aqueous springs, 206, 219, 221; salses and mud vol- canoes, 22]—224; erroneous popu- lar belief on, 201—203; noise ac- companying earthquakes, 203—206 ; their vast destruction of life, 206, 207; volcanic force, 210, 211; deep and peculiar impression produced on men and animals, 211, 213. Ehrenberg, his discovery of infusoria in the polishing slate of Bilin, 141; infusorial deposits, 255, 263; bril- liant discovery of microscopic life in the ocean and in the ice of the polar regions, 350; rapid propagation of animalcules and their tenacity of life, 352—354; transformation of chalk, 263. Hilectricity, magnetic, 182—197; con- jectured electric currents, 183, 184; electric storms, 189; atmospheric, 342—345. Elevations, comparative, of mountains in the two Hemispheres, 6, 7. Encke, 91; his computation that the showers of meteors, in 1833, pro- ceeded from the same point of space in the direction in which the earth Was moving at the time, 106. Ennius, 53, 64. Epicharmus, writings of, 54. Equator, advantages of the countries bordering on, 11, 12, 13; their or- ganic richness and fertility, 18, 14; magnetic equator, 176—178. Erman, Adolph, on the three cold days of May (11th—13th), 121; lines of declination in Northern Asia, 175; in the southern parts of the Atlantic, 181 ; observations during the earthquake at Irkutsk, on the non-disturbance of the horary changes of the magnetic needle, 203. Eruptions and exhalations (volcanic), lava, gaseous and liquid fluids, hot mud, mud mofettes, &c., 152, 206— 272. Ethnographical studies, their import. ance and teaching, 366—268. Etna, Mount, its elevation 6, 226; sup- posed extinction, by the ancients, 225; its eruptions from lateral fis- sures, 227; similarity of its zones of vegetation to those of Ararat, 356. Euripides, his Phaéton, 110. Falconer, Dr., fossil researches in the Himalayas, 281. Faraday, radiating heat, electro-mag- netism, &c., 29, 172, 182; brilliant discovery of the evolution of light, by magnetic forces, 188. Farquharson, on the connection of cir- rous clouds with the Aurora, 191; its altitude, 194. Fedorow, his pendulum experiments, 159, Feldt, on the ascent of shooting stars, 111. Ferdinandea, igneous island of, 241. Floras, geographical distribution of, 359, 360. Forbes, Professor E., reference to his Travels in Lycia, 220; account of the island of Santorino, 240. Forbes, Professor J., his improved seis- mometer, 200 ; on the correspondence existing between the distribution of existing floras in the British islands, 357, 358 ; on the origin and diffusion of the British flora, 363. Forster, George, remarked the climatic diffegence of temperature of the eastern and western coasts of both continents, 327. Forster, Dr. Thomas, monkish notice of ‘ Meteorodes,? 111. Foster, Reinhold, pyramidal configura- tion of the southern extremities of continents, 294, Fossil remains of tropical plants and animals found in northern regions, 26, 27, 272—288; of extinct vege- tation in the travertine of Van Diemen’s Land, 221; fossil human remains, 250. Fourier, temperature of our planetary system, 145, 164, 165, 169. Fracastoro, on the direction of the tails of comets from the sun, 86.