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| Title | Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 3 Bohn's scientific library Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Alexander von Humboldt |
| Author | Alexander von Humboldt |
| Translated by | Elise C. Otté, Benjamin Horatio Paul, William Sweetland Dallas |
| Publisher | H.G. Bohn, 1851 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Sep 2007 |
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