View of the Sulphur Mountain or Brennisteinsfjöll, Iceland. Scottish scientists watching volcanic eruptions. Copied from an illustration by Scottish geologist Sir George Steuart Mackenzie in his Travels in the Island of Iceland, 1811. Ansicht der Schwefelberge auf Island. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1815. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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