Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander Humboldt

Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe

Foundations of Natural History

Alexander Humboldt

375 pages • first pub 1862 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science challenging informative slow-paced
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"I have the crazy idea to represent in one work the entire material universe, everything we know today of the phenomena in the celestial spaces and of life on earth, from the stars in the nebulae to the geography of mosses and gigantic rocks, in a...

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