Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1849 - Astronomy |
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investigation Nature presents itself to meditative contemplation as | 1 |
The earliest dawn of the science of the Cosmos | 15 |
The domain embraced by cosmography | 18 |
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