Geographical studies

About this eBook

Author

Ritter, Carl, 1779-1859

Original Publication

Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1861, pubdate 1863.

Credits

Aaron Adrignola, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

Subject

Physical geography

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 79899

Release Date

November 1, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.TESTIMONY FROM PROF. ARNOLD GUYOT, PRINCETON COLLEGE.
3. 3.GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES.
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
6. 6.CONTENTS.
7. 7.A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF CARL RITTER.
8. 8.AN ACCOUNT OF PROF. RITTER’S GEOGRAPHICAL LABORS. BY DR. H. BÖGEKAMP.
9. 9.INTRODUCTORY ESSAY TO GENERAL COMPARATIVE GEOGRAPHY.
10. 10.GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES. — INTRODUCTORY ESSAY TO GENERAL COMPARATIVE GEOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES: — GENERAL COMPARATIVE GEOGRAPHY IN ITS AIM AND OBJECT. — PART FIRST. THE CONTINENTS AS FIXED FORMS. — PART SECOND. THE FLUID FORMS ON THE EARTH’S SURFACE. — PART THIRD. THE FORMS OF THE THREE NATURAL KINGDOMS. — MAN. — METHOD OF ARRANGEMENT. — GEOGRAPHICAL AUTHORITIES. — NATURE OF THE AUTHORITIES. — THE FEATURES OF THE EARTH’S SURFACE. — OCEANIC FORMS. — FOOTNOTES: — THE ATMOSPHERE. — THE SUBTERRANEAN REGIONS. — THE VEGETABLE WORLD. — THE ANIMAL WORLD. — REMAINING MATERIALS.—CONCLUSION.
11. 11.GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE FIXED FORMS OF THE EARTH’S SURFACE.
12. 12.GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE FIXED FORMS OF THE EARTH’S SURFACE. — SECTION I. SKY, SEA, AND LAND. — SECTION II. THE LAND. — THE OLD WORLD. — EXPLANATION FIRST. THE EARTH’S SURFACE: MOUNTAINS, PLAINS. — EXPLANATION SECOND. DEFINITION OF MOUNTAIN RANGES. — EXPLANATION THIRD. ESTABLISHMENT OF TERMS INDICATIVE OF ELEVATIONS OF THE EARTH’S SURFACE. — SECTION III. STREAMS OF WATER. — EXPLANATION FIRST. RIVER SYSTEMS, AND THE DISTRICTS WHICH THEY WATER. — EXPLANATION SECOND. THE DIRECTION, FALL, UPPER, MIDDLE, AND LOWER COURSE OF STREAMS. — EXPLANATION THIRD. THE TERRACE-LANDS OF THE EARTH. — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.THE GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION AND HORIZONTAL EXTENSION OF THE CONTINENTS.
14. 14.THE GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION AND HORIZONTAL EXTENSION OF THE CONTINENTS. — I. CONTRAST BETWEEN THE LAND HEMISPHERE AND THE WATER HEMISPHERE. — II. THE GROUPING OF THE LAND MASSES. — III. POSITIONS OF THE SEPARATE CONTINENTS. — IV. SIZE. — V. EXTENSION IN LENGTH AND BREADTH. — VI. THE CONFORMATION OF THE CONTINENTS AND THEIR BROKEN OUTLINE.
15. 15.REMARKS ON FORM AND NUMBERS AS AUXILIARY IN REPRESENTING THE RELATIONS OF GEOGRAPHICAL SPACES.
16. 16.REMARKS ON FORM AND NUMBERS AS AUXILIARY IN REPRESENTING THE RELATIONS OF GEOGRAPHICAL SPACES.
17. 17.THE HISTORICAL ELEMENT IN GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE.
18. 18.THE HISTORICAL ELEMENT IN GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE. — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.NATURE AND HISTORY AS THE FACTORS OF NATURAL HISTORY: OR, REMARKS ON THE RESOURCES OF THE EARTH.
20. 20.NATURE AND HISTORY AS THE FACTORS OF NATURAL HISTORY: OR, REMARKS ON THE RESOURCES OF THE EARTH. — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.THE EXTERNAL FEATURES OF THE EARTH IN THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE COURSE OF HISTORY.
22. 22.THE EXTERNAL FEATURES OF THE EARTH IN THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE COURSE OF HISTORY. — THE END. — TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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