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Kosmos



Alexander Von Humboldt’s monumental work “Kosmos” was published in 1845. It’s translated into many languages. Kosmos is a thorough account of Humboldt’s travels and expeditions.
The first volume comprises of a basic introduction of the complete picture of the universe. The second volume explores the depiction of nature through the ages by landscape painters and proceeds with the history of man’s attempt to discover and describe our planet Earth for as much as the time of Egyptians. The third volume, explains the laws of celestial space which is known as astronomy. The fourth volume is about the Earth where man is considered as part of Earth by the Author.
The aim of Kosmos is the definite and factual form of nature’s entity in the scientific aspect. The process of nature on the ingenius faculty and emotion develop into enticement to nature studies via the contradicting group of exotic plants. The term “cosmography” is divided into uranography and geography. The approach of Kosmos is the history of natural philosophy and the continuous thought connected to cosmos as an organic unit. So basically, Kosmos aims to develop a universal science.
Overall, the objective of Kosmos is the foundation of universal science.

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