Cosmos —— Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe

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ISBN: 9781332432226 出版年：2016 页码：301 Alexander von Humboldt Forgotten Books

IN pursuance Of the aim which I had proposed to myself, as attainable in a degree commensurate with my own powers and with the present state of knowledge, I have consi dered Nature, in the two volumes Of the Cosmos which have already appeared, in a twofold point Of View. I have sought to represent her, first, in the pure Objectivity of external phaenomena, and, next, as the reflex of the image received through the senses on the mirror of man's inner being, his ideas and feelings.