UID:
almafu_9960117108602883
Format:
1 online resource (i-viii, 360, i-cxlii pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-70898-X
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Physical sciences
Uniform Title:
Kosmos.
Content:
Polymath Alexander von Humboldt, a self-described 'scientific traveller', was one of the most respected scientists of his time. Humboldt's wanderlust led him across Europe and to South America, Mexico, the US, & Russia, & his voyages & observations resulted in the discovery of many species previously unknown to Europeans. Originating as lectures delivered in Berlin & Paris (1827-1828), his multi-volume Cosmos: Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe (1845-1860) represented the culmination of his lifelong interest in understanding the physical world. Volume 2 reviews poetic descriptions of nature as well as landscape painting from antiquity through to modernity, before using the same time-span to examine a 'history of the physical contemplation of the universe'.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2010.
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Originally published: London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848.
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Translated from the German.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-01363-5
Language:
English
