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Error in Humboldt's Cosmos

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I BEG to call the attention of geometers to what appears to me to be an inaccuracy in a work, which is, perhaps, the last which one would suspect to be capable of error—the “Cosmos” of Humboldt.

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MOORE, J. Error in Humboldt's Cosmos. Nature 5, 479–480 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005479c0

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