COSMOS

A SKETCH
OR
A PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSE

BY
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN
BY E. C. OTTE

Naturae vero rerum vis atque majestas in omnibus momentis fides caret, si
quis modo partes ejus ac non totam complectatur animo. -- Plin., 'Hist.
Nat.', lib. vii, c. 1.

VOLUME I

WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY NICOLAAS A. RUPKE

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Baltimore and London

[page vi and Introduction to the 1997 edition not copied]

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COSMOS

VOLUME I