Cosmos: a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, Paternoster Row; and John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1849 |
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PART I | 364 |
INCITEMENTS TO THE STUDY OF NATURE | 370 |
Descriptions of nature by the Romans | 383 |
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