Excerpt from Cosmos: A Survey of the General Physical History of the Universe

To follow this variety of enjoyment, spring ing from ideas, to its source, we have only to cast our eye back upon the rise and progress of the history of the philosophy of nature, in other words, of the ancient doctrine Of Cosmos.

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