e/Kosmos (Humboldt)

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has gloss	eng: Kosmos (usually referred to in English as "Cosmos") was an influential treatise on science and nature written by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Kosmos began as a lecture series delivered by Humboldt at the University of Berlin, and was published in five volumes between 1845 and 1862 (the fifth was posthumous and incomplete). Widely read by academics and laymen alike, it applied the ancient Greek view of the orderliness of the cosmos (the universe) to the Earth, suggesting that universal laws applied as well to the apparent chaos of the terrestrial world. Controversially for the time, Humboldt in Kosmos spoke of the spirituality of the natural world only in general terms, avoiding the notion of a creator.
lexicalization	eng: Kosmos
instance of	(noun) a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together); "I am reading a good book on economics" book

Meaning
German
has gloss	deu: Der „Kosmos – Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung“ ist ein fünfbändiges Werk des deutschen Universalgelehrten Alexander von Humboldt, in welchem er dem Leser eine Gesamtschau der wissenschaftlichen Welterforschung zu vermitteln suchte, „die Erscheinung der körperlichen Dinge in ihrem Zusammenhange, die Natur als durch innere Kräfte bewegtes und belebtes Ganzes“. Die Bände erschienen 1845 bis 1862. Der fünfte und letzte Band ist Fragment geblieben und wurde erst postum veröffentlicht.
lexicalization	deu: Kosmos

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