Simplicial and De Rham Homology on Manifolds

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I'm looking for a recomendable reference/source for a rigorous proof that for manifolds (with "nice enough" structure) the simlicial and De Rham (co)homologies coincide.

Especially, I know that there exist criterions from axiomatic (co)homology theories which provide a statement about different (co)homology theories just if the neccessary conditions are fullfilled.

But I'm looking preferably for a reference where a concrete isomorphism between both (co)homologies above is constructed. So with viewpoint to geometric intuition.

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In Bott and Tu (Differential forms in algebraic topology) there are proofs that both de Rham cohomology and singular cohomology agree with Čech cohomology (with respect to a good cover). In Hatcher (Algebraic topology) you can find a proof that singular and simplical cohomology agree.

Note that the first half of the above (the isomorphism between de Rham and singular cohomology) is often called de Rham's theorem.