Aspects of nature
Subtitle: in different lands and different climates : with scientific elucidations
By: by Alexander von Humboldt ; translated by Mrs. Sabine
Contributors: Sabine, Elizabeth Juliana, 1807-1879, translator
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; John Murray
Published: 1849
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Science; Physical geography; Description and travel; Plant morphology
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from German to English by Mrs. Sabine.
Table of contents: title: I. Steppes and deserts. Cataracts of the Orinoco. Nocturnal life of animals in the primeval forest. Hypsometric addenda; title: II. Physiognony of plants. On the structure and mode of action of volcanos, in different parts of the globe. The vital force, or The Rhodian genius. The plateau of Caxamarca, the ancient capital of the Inca Atahuallpa, and the first view of the Pacific Ocean, from the crest of Andes.