Cosmos : sketch of a physical description of the universe

著者

• Humboldt, Alexander von
• Sabine, Edward, Sir

書誌事項

Cosmos : sketch of a physical description of the universe

Alexander von Humboldt ; edited by Edward Sabine

（Cambridge library collection, . Physical sciences）

Cambridge University Press, 2010

• vol. 1
• vol. 2

注記

Reprint. Originally published: London : Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans , 1846-1848

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

vol. 1 ISBN 9781108013635

内容説明

Polymath Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), a self-described 'scientific traveller', was one of the most respected scientists of his time. Humboldt's wanderlust led him across Europe and to South America, Mexico, the U.S., and Russia, and his voyages and observations resulted in the discovery of many species previously unknown to Europeans. Originating as lectures delivered in Berlin and Paris (1827-1828), his multi-volume Cosmos: Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe (1845-1860) represented the culmination of his lifelong interest in understanding the physical world. As Humboldt writes, 'I ever desired to discern physical phenomena in their widest mutual connection, and to comprehend Nature as a whole, animated and moved by inward forces.' Volume 1 (1846) investigates celestial and terrestrial phenomena, from nebulae to the temperature of the earth, as well as 'organic life'. Throughout, he stresses the method of, and limits to, describing the universe's physical nature.

目次

• Editor's preface
• Author's preface
• Introduction
• General view of nature: Introduction
• Celestial phaenomena
• Terrestrial phaenomena
• Organic life
• Notes.

巻冊次

vol. 2 ISBN 9781108013642

内容説明

Polymath Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), a self-described 'scientific traveller', was one of the most respected scientists of his time. Humboldt's wanderlust led him across Europe and to South America, Mexico, the U.S. and Russia, and his voyages and observations resulted in the discovery of many species previously unknown to Europeans. Originating as lectures delivered in Berlin and Paris (1827-1828), his two-volume Cosmos: Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe (1845-1860) represented the culmination of his lifelong interest in understanding the physical world. As Humboldt writes, 'I ever desired to discern physical phenomena in their widest mutual connection, and to comprehend Nature as a whole, animated and moved by inward forces'. Volume 2 (1848) reviews poetic descriptions of nature as well as landscape painting from antiquity through to modernity, before using the same time-span to examine a 'History of the Physical Contemplation of the Universe'.

目次

• Incitements to the study of nature
• 1. Poetic descriptions of nature
• 2. Landscape painting
• 3. Culture of characteristic exotic plants
• 4. History of the physical contemplation of the universe
• Notes
• Index.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB08852071
• ISBN:
  • 9781108013635
  • 9781108013642
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge ; Tokyo
• ページ数/冊数: 2 v.
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 親書誌ID:
  • BB00083053