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Title | Isothermal Chart, or View of Climates and Production Drawn from the Account of Humboldt and Others |
Alternate Title | View of Climates and Production Drawn from the Account of Humboldt and Others Isothermal Chart |
Creator |
Woodbridge, William C., 1794-1845 |
Type of Resource | cartographic |
Date Created | 1824 |
Digital Origin | reformatted digital |
Topics |
Climate |
Places | Earth |
Dates | Nineteenth century |
Subject Genre | Thematic maps Meteorological charts |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/10176/codu:55745 |
Rights Statement | Scanned image Copyright 2005, Rumsey Collection (Cartography Associates), and used here under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license. |
Language | English |
Extent | 1 online resource (map) : JPEG file, col. |
Physical Note | Raster Original Sheet(s): 27 x 43 cm. |
Scale | 1: 95,000,000 |
Coordinates | (W 120°--E 120°/N 70°--S 60°) |
Notes | » Website description: This chart adopted Alexander von Humboldt’s innovation of isothermal lines in order to enable students to investigate the relationship between temperature and agricultural output. » Includes inset map "Central Europe" and table "Distribution of mankind with their races & religions, 1826." » Prime meridians: Philadelphia and London. » Relief shown by hachures. » Host/Source Creator: Woodbridge, William C., 1794-1845. Host Type of Resource: cartographic. Host Form of Resource: atlas. Host Extent: 8 double maps ; 25 cm. » Last alternate title from Website. |
Host Title | School atlas to accompany Woodbridge's Rudiments of geography : Atlas on a new plan exhibiting the prevailing religions, forms of government, degrees of civilization and the comparative size of towns, rivers and mountains. Hartford, Conn. : Oliver D. Cooke & Co., [1821-1825]. |
Local Identifiers | Woodbridge_Isothermal_Chart.jpg nationID: 3.03 nationIDchrono: 1.04 nationIDcreator: 1.110 (CSfRHMC)5031009 (OCoLC)30023631 (Host) |