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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].

  • Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.
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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    Spontaneous generation, 354, 355. Springs, hot and cold, 216—223 3 inter- mittent, 216; causes of their temper- ature, 216—219; thermal, 219, 353, 354; deepest Artesian wells the warmest, observed by Arago, 220; salses, 221—224; influence of earth. quake shocks on hot springs, 206, 219—221. Stars, general account of, 68—74; fixed, 71—74, 89; double and multiple, 73, 137; nebulons, 68, 69, 142; their translatory motion, 136—] 40 ; paral- laxes and distances. 136—139; com. putations of Bessel and Herschel on their diameter and volume, 138; immense number in the Milky Way, 140—141; star dust, 69; star gag. ings, 140; starless spaces, 141—142; telescopic stars, 148; velocity of the propagation of light of, 143, 144; apparition of new stars, 144. Storms, magnetic, and voleanic. See Magnetism, Volcanoes. Strabo, observed the cessation of shocks of earthquake on the eruption of lava, 211; on the mcde in which islands are formed, 224; description of the Hill of Methone, 239—240; volcanic theory, 242; divined the existence of a continent in the northern hemi- sphere between Theria and Thine, 293; extolled the varied form of our small continent as favourable to the moral and intellectual development of its people, 295—296. Strave, Otho, on the proper motion of the solar system, 136 ; Investigations on the propagation of light, 143; parallaxes and distances of fixed stars, 143; observations on Halley s Comet, 90. Studer, Professor, on mineral meta- morphism. See note by Trans!ator, 248. Sun, magnitude of its volume compared with that of the fixed stars, 124; round the centre of gravity of the whole solar system, 134; velocity of its translatory motion, 134, 135 ; narrow limitations of its atmosphere as compared with the nucleus of other nebulous stars, 129, 130; «sun stones’ of the ancients, 110; views of the Greek philosophers on the sun, 110. Symond, Lieut., his trigonometrical survey of the Dead Sea, 301. Tacitus, distinguished local climatic relations from those of race, 361. Temperature of the globe, see Earth and Ocean; remarkable uniformity over the same spaces of the surface of the ocean, 308; zones at which occur the maxima of the oceanic temperature, 309; causes which raise the temperature, 325; causes which lower the temperature, 326; temperature of various places, an- nual, and in the different seasons, 328, 329, 330—335; thermic scale of temperature, 330—332; of conti- nental climates as compared with insular and littoral climates, 328, . 329; law of decrease with increase of elevation, 334; depression of, by shoals, 314: refrigeration of the lower strata of the ocean, 308. Teneriffe, Peak of, its striking scenery, 4. Theodectes, of Phaselis, on the colour of the Ethiopians, 362. Theon, of Alexandria, described comets as ‘wandering light clouds,’ 85. Theophylactus, described Scythia, as free from earthquakes, 199, Thermal scales of cultivated plants, 330—332. Thermal springs, their temperature, constancy, and change, 218—221; animal and vegetable life in, 353, 354. Thermometer, 347. Thibet, habitability of its elevated plateaux, 338-40. Thienemann, on the aurora, 191, 194. Thought, results of its free action, 84; union with language, 37, Tiberias, Sea of, its depression below the level of the Mediterranean, 301. Tides of the ocean, their phenomena, 310, 311. Tillard, Capt., on the sudden appear- ance of the Island of Sabrina, 24], Tournefort, zones of vegetation on Mount Ararat, 356. Tralles, his notice of the negative elec.