

COSMOS: 



A SKETCH 



OP 



A PHYSICAL DESCKIPTION OF THE UNiyEHSE. 



BY 



ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, 



TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, 



BY E. C. OTTE AND B. H. PAUL, Ph. D., F.C.S. 



NatursB vero rerura vis atque majestas in omnibus mc mentis fide caret, si quis modo 

 partes ejus ac non totam complectatur animo. — Flin., Hist. Nat., lib. vii,, c. 1. 



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