Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe - Foundations of Natural History

"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 vivid language that will stimulate the imagination."-from Humboldt's 1834 letter to Karl VarnhagenThe first volume of Cosmos, Alexander von Humboldt's five-volume description of the physical universe, was published in 1845. In it Humboldt presents a critical survey of the state of scientific thinking in fields as diverse as astronomy, geology, geography, paleontology, biology, botany, and zoology. This paperback edition reprints the Harper & Brothers edition, published in New York in 1858.

ISBN:	9780801855023
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Published date:	14 May 1997
DEWEY:	523.1
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	375
Weight:	474g
Height:	128mm
Width:	203mm
Spine width:	28mm

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