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BOHN'S SCIENTIFIC LIBEAET. HUMBOLDT'S COSMOS.
COSMOS: A SKETCH OP A PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSE. ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, BY E, C, OTTE, Nature; vero rerum vis atquemajestasin omnibus momentis fide caret, si guis modoparteSejus ac non totam complectatux animo. Plin., Hist. Nat., lib. vii. c. 1. VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1849.
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Page 9 and 10: CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PART I. INCITE
Page 11 and 12: CONTENTS. Vli Page The vast sphere
Page 13 and 14: CONTENTS. IX Page Polarization and
Page 15 and 16: [_xii] COSMOS. application of the t
Page 17 and 18: [_xiv] COSMOS. logy and descriptive
Page 19 and 20: [xvi] COSMOS. tosthenes of Gyrene.
Page 21 and 22: [xviii] COSMOS. than the Arabs, and
Page 23 and 24: [XX] COSMOS. Copernicus never advan
Page 25 and 26: 370 COSMOS. INCITEMENTS TO THE STUD
Page 27 and 28: 372 COSMOS. desire to visit the lan
Page 29 and 30: 374 COSMOS. action, riveted their a
Page 31 and 32: 376 COSMOS. the stillness of night,
Page 33 and 34: 378 COSMOS. and fatal passion. Euri
Page 35 and 36: 380 COSMOS. wooded valley of Tempe,
Page 37 and 38: S82 COSMOS. That which we miss in t
Page 39 and 40: 384 cosmos. that account lose any o
Page 41 and 42: 386 COSMOS. been transmitted to us
Page 43 and 44: 388 COSMOS. tanian Gaul, the poet h
Page 45 and 46: 390 COSMOS. nature amongst the Roma
Page 47 and 48: 392 COSMOS. was adopted as the reli
Page 49 and 50: 394 COSMOS. the other, all access i
Page 51 and 52: 896 COSMOS. earlier ages of their n
Page 53 and 54: 398 COSMOS. selves over the inhospi
Page 55 and 56: 400 COSMOS. in which the giant mons
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402 COSMOS. be gifted with voice, f
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404 COSMOS. schools constitute one
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406 COSMOS. Indians, and the marked
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408 COSM08- poetry have perished. I
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410 COSMOS. and even to attempt a n
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412 COSMOS. presents the nations of
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414 COSMOS. generalisation in the c
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416 COSMOS. desert go to Constantin
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418 COSMOS. "When the glory of the
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420 COSMOS. When classical literatu
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422 COSMOS. quately appreciated by
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424 COSMOS. nature ; thus it is sup
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426 COSMOS. and the strait where He
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428 COSMOS*. devoid of animation, b
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430 COSMOS. treats chiefly of event
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432 COSMOS. versed in physical inve
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434 COSMOS, ind Les Voyages a V Ori
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436 COSMOS. seamen individualise th
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438 COSMOS. left unemployed, by whi
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440 COSMOS. LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN I
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442 COSMOS. of the master-works of
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444 COSMOS. between Nero and Titus,
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446 . COSMOS. artists at this epoch
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448 COSMOS. oranges and laurels, wi
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450 COSMOS. These studies he himsel
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452 COSMOS. and how all the spirite
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454 COSMOS. only with the simpler f
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456 COSMOS. the greatest contractio
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458 COSMOS. CULTIVATION OF TROPICAL
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460 COSMOS. ting effect of the ligh
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462 COSMOS. guard.* The ancient ado
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464 COSMOS. so deeply rooted amongs
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466 COSMOS. HISTORY OF THE PHYSICAL
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468 COSMOS. often guides almost imp
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470 COSMOS. speedily established. W
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472 COSMOS. most nearly the languag
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474 COSMOS. ledge of the connection
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476 COSMOS. Babylon, Nineveh, Kashm
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478 COSMOS. The history of the civi
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480 COSMOS. PRINCIPAL MOMENTA THAT
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482 COSMOS. the southern or Libyan
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484 COSMOS. into the peninsula of A
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486 COSMOS. account of the most rec
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488 COSMOS. expressly says, that Se
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490 COSMOS. and powerfully develope
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492 COSMOS. The share taken by the
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494 COSMOS. ./Estii on the Baltic,
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496 COSMOS. In accordance with the
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493 COSMOS. purariae. The strong oc
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500 COSMOS. constructed at the Red
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502 COSMOS. Dvipa Sukhatara), culti
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504 COSMOS. thought worthy of espec
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506 COSMOS. Euphrates and the Indus
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508 COSMOS. and by their furtheranc
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510 COSMOS. aids and rough instrume
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512 COSMOS repeated fable of the gi
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514 COSMOS. existence has so often
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516 COSMOS. At Phasis, the navigato
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518 COSMOS. of mankind as far as it
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520 COSMOS. vast tracts of land tha
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522 COSMOS. colonial institutions o
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524 COSMOS. Besides the knowledge o
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526 COSMOS. The great work on anima
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528 COSMOS. the Macedonian campaign
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530 . COSMOS. familiar with a court
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532 COSMOS. The enlargement of the
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534 COSMOS. go furthel- back than t
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536 COSMOS EXTENSION OF THE CONTEMP
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538 COSMOS. a Roman province, Egypt
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540 COSMOS. which was connected wit
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542 COSMOS. epoch of the Ptolemies,
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544 COSMOS. from west to east in th
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546 COSMOS. by the acquisition of n
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548 COSMOS. the Euphrates, and the
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550 COSMOS. The enjoyment of a long
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552 COSMOS. became extinguished wit
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554 COSMOS. Thus there arose connec
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556 COSMOS. geography. He remarks,
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558 COSMOS. oscillations of the ear
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560 COSMOS. ledge of the complete i
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562 COSMOS. in the Catoptrica of Ar
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564 COSMOS. whole of antiquity noth
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566 COSMOS. influence exercised by
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568 COSMOS. Such unnatural impedime
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570 COSMOS ceased to be associated
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572 COSMOS, tions imparted a peculi
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574 COSMOS, tvellia thurifera of Co
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576 COSMOS supposed by the philolog
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578 COSMOS. the country people stil
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580 COSMOS. distilled mercury from
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582 COSMOS. in the short space of s
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584 COSMOS. the amount of knowledge
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5S6 COSMOS. all the adherents of Is
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588 COSMOS. area over which the pec
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590 COSMOS. advances of chemistry,
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592 COSMOS. Although the purity and
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594 COSMOS. medical knowledge of th
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596 COSMOS. algebra of the Arabs or
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598 COSMOS. problem, concerning whi
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600 COSMOS. more abstruse departmen
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602 COSMOS. was as yet unaided by t
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604 COSMOS. peopled from Iceland a
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606 COSMOS. Certain accounts of the
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608 COSMOS. inhabitants of the isla
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610 COSMOS. That this first discove
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612 COSMOS. the opposite coast, Hel
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614 COSMOS. And yet it was of this
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616 COSMOS. Augustine to Alcuiii, J
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618 COSMOS. Albertus Magnus, of the
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620 COSMOS. tlie Almagest. As lie,
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622 COSMOS. tion assumed by this st
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624 COSMOS. Two centuries before th
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626 COSMOS. of Marco Polo's narrati
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G28 COSMOS. the middle ages, have b
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630 COSMOS. mariner and a successfu
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632 COSMOS The influence exercised
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634 COSMOS. landed on the eastern c
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636 COSMOS. 1493 and 1494, " bring
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638 COSMOS. would appear from Las C
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640 COSMOS. and the variations in t
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642 COSMOS. passage to Catliai (Chi
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644 COSMOS. nourishment of the grea
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646 COSMOS. for Castille, and two y
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648 COSMOS. ascertain its fate* 1 .
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650 COSMOS. sical and ethnological
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652 COSMOS. two thousand years earl
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654 COSMOS, heavenly bodies, in the
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656 COSMOS. oceanic enterprises con
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658 COSMOS. were continually beset
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660 COSMOS. in the atmosphere, and
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662 COSMOS. currents which traverse
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364 COSMOS. The important era of ge
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666 COSMOS. Nubecula major may be a
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668 COSMOS. plied, and as Christian
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670 COSMOS. ous with the extension
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672 COSMOS. like unto a prophetic v
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674 COSMOS. stance of its appearing
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676 COSMOS. closely bears upon the
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, were < 678 COSMOS. and the improv
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680 COSMOS. feelings of those natio
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682 COSMOS. age of astronomy and ma
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684 COSMOS. Waisselrode of Allen, b
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686 COSMOS. the ideal links which c
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688 COSMOS. ignorant of all mathema
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690 COSMOS. the mathematical knowle
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692 COSMOS. quainted with the views
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694 COSMOS. fixed in a central poin
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696 COSMOS. tion of the apparent re
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698 COSMOS. of the world now appear
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700 COSMOS. Laprey in the important
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702 COSMOS. he first directed towar
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704 COSMOS. The knowledge of Jupite
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706 COSMOS. 1610, Galileo informed
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708 COSMOS. descent lime-ball appea
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710 COSMOS. cised a happy influence
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712 COSMOS. not on actual observati
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714 COSMOS, The use of the telescop
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716 COSMOS. understanding of its or
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718 COSMOS. the inflections of the
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720 COSMOS. observed at the magneti
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722 COSMOS. mometer, and the ration
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724 cosmos. more correct view was t
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726 COSMOS. 1600, under the title o
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728 COSMOS. perature, the alternati
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730 COSMOS. Men had now discovered
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732 COSMOS. vices in the geognosy o
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734 CCSMOS. ancient inundations (ei
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736 COSMOS. The decrease of gravity
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738 RETROSPECT OF THE EPOCHS THAT H
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740 COSMOS. once explored, the numb
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742 COSMOS. If art may be said to d
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639; accidents which led to the nam
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Cassius, Mount, the probable ' ambe
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L El Tstachri, Arabian geographer,
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L the satellites of Jupiter, 703; o
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lack Asiatic races, 531; on the inc
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Oxygen and its properties, first no
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of mountains in early Italian lands
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L Yemen, its natural products, 573
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