Explorers with Humboldt's expedition at the basalt cliffs at Regla Size:Large: 7 x 5in Plate 5 from the book

Plate 5 from the book Icones rerum naturalium

Scene with caricatured figures

Upper side views of two flint hand tools made by native Australians

Figure 12 Posterior part of the ear-bone

Six phases of Jupiter

Explorers with Humboldt's expedition at the basalt cliffs at Regla Size:Large: 7 x 5in Plate 5 from the bookExplorers with Humboldt's expedition at the basalt cliffs at Regla, Mexico, c1820 1839. German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt's (1769 1859) interests included geophysics, geology and botany and he is sometimes called the founder of ecology. He visited Mexico in 1803 1804 during the course of a five year expedition to Latin America. Plate 60 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne by Jules Ferrario.