Rendering Visible the Climate: Humboldt’s 1817 Climate Zone Map

Abstract

geographical-statistical study is greatly facilitated if the form of representation is not merely symbolic (in the narrowest sense of the word) but is at the same time made descriptive. Sensualization ( Versinnlichung through pictorial representation is—as several of our most famous writers rightly claim—in geography and statistics as well as in natural history a very powerful means of facilitating the study of geography for the dilettantes, and to make it more impressive for the beginner. translation