Cosmos: a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe 2
Cosmos: a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe 2
Humboldt, Alexander Von, 1769-1859
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368, and compare also Wiihehn TOa Humboldt^ Udttr dU Kawi-Sprache, bd. i. s. zzxriU. 569 INVASION OP THE AEABS. — INTELLECTUAL APTITUDE OF THIS BBANCH OF THE SEMITIC KACES. — INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN ELEMENTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN CULTURE. THE INDIVIDUALITY OF THE NATIONAL CHARACTER OF THE ARABS. TENDENCY TO A COMMUNION WITH NATURE AND PH;YSICAL FORCES. MEDICINE AND CHEMISTRY. EXTENSION OF PHY- SICAL GEOGRAPHY. — ^ASTRONOMY AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES IN THE INTERIOR OF CONTINENTS. In the pr...eceding sketch of the history of the physical contem- plation of the imiverse we have already considered four principal momenta in the gradual development of the recog- nition of the imity of nature, viz. : — 1. The attempts made to penetrate from the basin of the Mediterranean, eastward, to the Euxine and Phasis; south- ward, to Ophir and the tropical gold-lands; and westward, through the Pillars of Hercules, into the ^'all encircling ocean." 2. The Macedonian campaign, under Alexander the Great.
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