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

by Alexander von Humboldt

[EJ]. Jos. Hooker, Flora Antarct., 1844, p. 107.

[EK]. Compare Darwin in the Journal of Researches, 1845, p. 244, with King in vol. i. of the Narr. of the Voyages of the Adventure and the Beagle, p. 577.

[EL]. Od., i. 52.

[EM]. Il., iv. 561.

[EN]. Theog., v. 517.

[EO]. Op. et Dies, v. 167.

[EP]. De Originibus Americanorum, p. 195.

[EQ]. On the connexion of purely mythical ideas and geographical traditions, and on the manner in which the Titan Atlas gave occasion to the image of a mountain beyond the Pillars of Hercules supporting the heavens, see Letronne, Essai sur les Idées cosmographiques qui se rattachent au nom d’Atlas, in Férussac’s Bulletin universel des Sciences, Mars 1831, p. 10.

[ER]. Asie centrale, t. i., p. 179.

[ES]. Lib. iii., 53, 55.