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    to purify science by removing subjectivity altogether". Cosmos was influenced by Humboldt's travels and studies, but mainly by his journey throughout...
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  • Cosmos is a popular science book written by astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan. It was published in 1980 as a companion piece to the...
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    once joined (South America and Africa in particular). Humboldt resurrected the use of the word cosmos from the ancient Greek and assigned it to his multivolume...
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  • treatise by Alexander von Humboldt Cosmos (Gombrowicz novel), a 1965 novel by Witold Gombrowicz Cosmos (Sagan book), a 1980 book by Carl Sagan based on the...
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    de Acosta 250 years before Humboldt. In 1846, von Humboldt reported measurements of the cold-water current in his book Cosmos. The current extends from...
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  • The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World is a nonfiction book released in 2015, by the historian Andrea Wulf about the Prussian naturalist...
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    of Humboldt placed on a granite socle. Humboldt is wearing a long coat, with his left hand on a globe. In his right hand is a scroll with "COSMOS" written...
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    Gerard (2004). Humboldt's Cosmos. Penguin Group, 345-46. ISBN 1-59240-106-6. "Humboldt History." City of Humboldt.City of Humboldt Iowa. Archived 2007-09-19...
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    Humboldt Park, one of 77 designated community areas, is on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The Humboldt Park neighborhood is known for its dynamic...
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  • Walls, Laura Dassow (September 30, 2009). The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America. Chicago, Illinois: University of...
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