. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 30° Humboldt and his predecessors. Other observators down to 1874. , 620 Miles. them the Americans, Stephens and Catherwood, who carefully studied the re- markable monuments still standing in the southern part of the territory. But the Mexicans themselves also began to take an interest in scientific investigations ; and in 1839, a geographical and statistical bureau was founded in the capital. Thi^s association, which is one of the oldest of the kind in the world, has issued valuable memoirs on nearly every part of the confederacy. It has also prepared the
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 30° Humboldt and his predecessors. Other observators down to 1874. , 620 Miles. them the Americans, Stephens and Catherwood, who carefully studied the re- markable monuments still standing in the southern part of the territory. But the Mexicans themselves also began to take an interest in scientific investigations ; and in 1839, a geographical and statistical bureau was founded in the capital. Thi^s association, which is one of the oldest of the kind in the world, has issued valuable memoirs on nearly every part of the confederacy. It has also prepared the mate- rials for a general map of Mexico on a larger scale than that of Humboldt, which was partly produced in sections, and afterwards as a groundwork for Garcia Cubas' atlas, the first edition of which appeared in 1856. Then came the trigonometric survey of the Anahuac Valley under the direction
Size: 2645px × 1890px
Photo credit: © The Bookworm Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthor, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectgeography
