EditorialFumarole or sulphuric gases escaping from Solfatara volcano near Naples. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J.B. Hoessel from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802.
EditorialFumarole or sulphuric gases escaping from Solfatara volcano near Naples 1, and the eruption of the volcano on Stromboli island, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J.B. Hoessel from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Pict...
EditorialGrotto of Pausilippe near Naples 1, and the Grotta del Cane (Dogs Cave) near Naples with its mofetta or fumarole, volcanic discharge of sulphuric gases 2. Engraved by J.B. Hoessel, Weimar, 1802. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann ...
EditorialSmokehole or " fumarole" in the mud of the crater of Solfatara, one of the extinvt volcanoes of the Phlegrean Fields near Pozzuoli, Italy. Such a sight may have inspired the myth of the Cyclops Poliphem, the one-eyed giant of the Odyssee.