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Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 2
Book Details
- Publisher: Nabu Press
- Publish Date: Mar 29th, 2010
- Pages: 430
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.69in - 7.44in - 0.87in - 1.68lb
- EAN: 9781148105086
- Categories: • General
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Wait, so Republicans are upset about Judge Jackson belonging to the Cosmos Club? Dear god. Do we have to do a lesson on Alexander von Humboldt, John Wesley Powell, Clarence Dutton for folks?
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“In this great chain of causes and effects, no single fact can be considered in isolation.” How Alexander von Humboldt – one of the last true polymaths, born on this day in 1769 – pioneered the notion of the natural world as a cosmos of connections https://t.co/PBS4Xdddbi
Critic at Large @WSJ Emblems of Mind: https://t.co/DAA9a4xUjF NYT: https://t.co/zTIpv4EgOI
On Jefferson and mammoths, Peale's museum and Church's Niagara, Nature and Liberty, Darwin's homage and Humboldt's "Cosmos": I review "Alexander von Humboldt and the United States" @PrincetonUPress Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery … https://t.co/JaqPUf6Jpq