When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- Melville, Moby Dick (1.1.10,12)
- Hippolytus (1.1.12)
- Rabelais (1.4.10)
- Homer, The Iliad (1.4.11)
- Diderot (1.8.17)
- Cicero (1.8.39)
- Oedipus and the Sphinx (1.10.21)
References from Nemo's Study
Authors
- Homer (1.11.8)
- Victor Hugo (1.11.8)
- Xenophon (1.11.8)
- Michelet (1.11.8)
- George Sand (1.11.8)
Scientists and Other Thinkers
- Humboldt (1.11.8)
- Arago (1.11.8)
- Foucault (1.11.8)
- Henri Sainte-Claire Deville (1.11.8)
- Chasles (1.11.8)
- Milne-Edwards (1.11.8)
- Quatrefages (1.11.8)
- Tyndall (1.11.8)
- Faraday (1.11.8)
- Berthelot (1.11.8)
- Abbé Secchi (1.11.8)
- Petermann (1.11.8)
- Commander Maury (1.11.8)
- Agassiz (1.11.8)
- Joseph Bertrand, Les Fondateurs de l'astronomie (1.11.8)
Stuff Found in Nemo's Salon
Painters
- Raphael (1.11.23)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1.11.23)
- Correggio (1.11.23)
- Titian (1.11.23)
- Veronese (1.11.23)
- Murillo (1.11.23)
- Holbein (1.11.23)
- Velázquez (1.11.23)
- Ribera (1.11.23)
- Rubens (1.11.23)
- Teniers (1.11.23)
- Gerit Dou (1.11.23)
- Metsu (1.11.23)
- Paulus Potter (1.11.23)
- Géricault (1.11.23)
- Prud'hon (1.11.23)
- Backhuysen (1.11.23)
- Vernet (1.11.23)
"Modern" Painters
- Delacroix (1.11.23)
- Ingres (1.11.23)
- Decamps (1.11.23)
- Troyon (1.11.23)
- Meissonier (1.11.23)
- Daubigny (1.11.23)
Composers
- Weber (1.11.27)
- Rossini (1.11.27)
- Mozart (1.11.27)
- Beethoven (1.11.27)
- Hayden (1.11.27)
- Meyerbeer (1.11.27)
- Hérold (1.11.27)
- Wagner (1.11.27)
- Auber (1.11.27)
- Gounod (1.11.27)
- Jean Macé, Les Serviteurs de l'estomac (1.18.38)
Thinkers and Writers
- Aristotle (2.1.28)
- Athenaeus (2.1.28)
- Pliny (2.1.28)
- Oppian (2.1.28)
- H.C. Sirr, Ceylon and the Cingalese (2.2.2)
- Robert Percival (2.2.14)
- Strabo (2.4.46)
- Virgil, Georgics (2.6.65)
- Cassiodorus (2.6.115)
- Pliny (2.6.115, 2.7.44)
- Michelet (2.7.1)
- Avienus (2.7.44)
- Victor Hugo (2.8.30)
Men Who Wrote of Atlantis
- Theopompus (2.9.59)
- Plato (2.9.59)
- Origen (2.9.59)
- Porphyry (2.9.59)
- Iamblichus (2.9.59)
- d'Anville (2.9.59)
- Malte-Brun (2.9.59)
- Humbolft (2.9.59)
- Posidonius (2.9.59)
- Pliny (2.9.59)
- Ammianus (2.9.59)
- Marcellinus (2.9.59)
- Tertullian (2.9.59)
- Engel (2.9.59)
- Sherer (2.9.59)
- Tournefort (2.9.59)
- Buffon (2.9.59)
- d'Avezac (2.9.59)
- Plato, Timaeus; Critias (2.9.60)
- Solon (2.9.60)
- Jean-Sylvain Bailly (2.10.4)
- Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet (2.10.78)
- Maury, The Physical Geography of the Sea (2.11.6)
- Olaus Magnus (2.18.42)
- Victor Hugo, Les Travailleurs de la mer (2.19.1)
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (2.22.8)
- Book of Ecclesiastes (2.23.5)
Historical, Biblical, and Mythological References
- The Kraken (1.1.10,12; 2.18.19)
- Aristotle (1.1.10)
- Pliny (1.1.10)
- Carolus Linnaeus (1.1.12)
- Sir Samuel Cunard, owner of Cunard Line (1.1.17)
- Abraham Lincoln (1.2.32)
- The Leviathan (1.4.1)
- Knight of Rhodes (1.4.1)
- Dieudonné of Gozo (1.4.1)
- Argus (1.4.4)
- Neptune, Proteus (1.9.70)
- Orpheus (1.11.28)
- Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, explorer (1.11.35)
- Galileo (1.14.24)
- Maury, oceanographer (1.14.24)
- Captain Cook (1.18.32)
- Athenaeus, ancient Greek doctor (1.18.34)
- Galen (1.18.34)
- La Pérouse, French explorer (1.19.17)
- King Louis XVI of France (1.19.17)
- Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (1.19.38)
- Charles Darwin (2.1.19)
- Cleopatra (2.2.62)
- Vasco de Gama (2.4.1)
- Pan, Greek god (2.4.32)
- Moses, the Pharaoh (2.4.57)
- Moses (2.4.70)
- Sestoris (2.4.74)
- Necho (2.4.74)
- Darius, son of Hystaspesa (2.4.74)
- Ptolemy II (2.4.74)
- Caliph Umar (2.4.74)
- Caliph al-Mansur (2.4.74)
- Mohammed ben Abdallah (2.4.74)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (2.4.74)
- Ferdinand de Lesseps (2.4.75)
- Proteus, Neptune VIII (2.6.67)
- Vitellius (2.6.70)
- Marc Antony (2.6.71)
- Battle of Actium (2.6.71)
- Emperor Augustus (2.6.71)
- Neptune (2.7.1)
- Pluto (2.7.1)
- Arachne (2.7.12)
- Ferdinand de Lesseps (2.7.21)
- Thaddeus Kosciusko (2.8.30)
- Marco Bozzaris (2.8.30)
- King Leonidas of the Spartans (2.8.30)
- Daniel O'Connell (2.8.30)
- Daniele Manina (2.8.30)
- John Brown (2.8.30)
- Louis XIV of France (2.8.49)
- Duke of Anjou, grandson of Louis XIV, a.k.a. Philip V of Spain (2.8.49)
- Charles III of Spain (2.8.50)
- Admiral de Châteaurenault (2.8.51)
- Christopher Columbus (2.11.4)
- Tritons, Sirens (2.14.42)
- Derk Gherritz (3.14.91)
- Captain Cook (3.14.91)
- Edward Bransfield (3.14.91)
- Benjamin Morrell (3.14.91)
- George Powell (3.14.91)
- James Weddell (3.14.91)
- Henry Foster (3.14.91)
- John Biscoe (3.14.91)
- Charles Wilkes (3.14.91)
- John Balleny (3.14.91)
- The Titans (2.18.11)
- Bishop of Nadaros (2.18.42)
- Captain Frédéric Bouyer (2.18.53)
- Cyrus Field (2.20.29)
- Lapoype-Vertrieux (2.20.51)
- Admiral d'Estaing (2.20.51)
- Villaret de Joyeuse (2.20.51)
- Admiral Vanstabel (2.20.51)
- The Vengeur, Republican French ship (2.20.52)
- The Maelstrom (2.22.56)
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