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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