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NOWHERE in the “Cosmos” does Alexander von Humboldt show more vividly his keen appreciation of all the grander operations of nature than in those passages in which he discusses the subject of meteors, and in which he gives us a forecast of the connection of those striking and still not entirely explained phenomena with other celestial spectacles, such as the apparition of comets and the fall of meteorites.
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Some Lecture Notes upon Meteorites . Nature 12, 485–487 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012485a0
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