Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, 第 2 巻

Alexander von Humboldt

Harper, 1852

目次

• INCITEMENTS TO THE STUDY OF NATURE: 19
• Descriptions of Nature by the Romans: 31
• Descriptions of Nature in the Christian Fathers: 39
• Descriptions of Nature by the Minnesingers: 45
• Natural Descriptions by the Indians: 51
• under the Abbassides America was discovered and investigated to: 55
• Natural Descriptions in the Hebrew Writers: 57
• General Retrospect: 63
• Descriptions of Nature in Camoenss Lusiad: 69
• Modern Prose Writers: 75
• Modern Travelers: 81
• The Brothers Van Eyck: 87
• Introduction of Hothouses in our Gardens: 91
• Panoramas: 98
• Cultivation of Exotic Plants Contrasted apposition of vegeta: 99
• Physiognomy of Nature: 105
• B History of the Physical Contemplation of the Universe Principal: 106
• Comparative Philology: 111
• Ancient Seats of Civilization: 117
• ry of the recognition of the universe is wholly different from the history: 118
• vance toward the northeast by the Argonauts toward the south: 119
• Civilization in the Valley of the Nile: 124
• to extend the idea of the Cosmos Subdivisions in the form of the: 130
• The Amber Trade: 131
• The Ophir El Dorado of Solomon: 138
• of the Etrurian races to maintain an intimate communion with natural: 140
• The three Events which extended the Knowledge of the Universe: 144
• The Passage beyond the Pillars of Hercules: 151
• Campaigns of the Macedonians under Alexander the Great Fu: 153
• The vast Sphere of new Ideas opened to Mankind by the Cam: 155
• The Men of Aristotles School: 163
• Extension of the Contemplation of the Universe under: 170
• The Alexandrian Astronomers: 179
• Universal Dominion of the Romans Influence of a political: 180
• Diffusion of the Latin Tongue: 185
• The Waymeasurers in use among the Chinese: 191
• Reference to the Influence exercised by the Establishment: 199
• branch of the Semitic races Taste for the study of nature and: 200
• Natural Products of Arabia 204: 206
• Mental Culture of the Arabs: 212
• Astronomical Works of the Arabs: 222
• nent situated to the west Commercial relations existed however: 228
• The conjectured Discovery of America by the Irish: 234
• barren event of the first discovery of the new continent by the North: 238
• The Discovery of Tropical America: 240
• The Encyclopedic Works of the fifteenth Century: 246
• Use of the Magnetic Needle: 254
• Martyr de Anghiera: 260
• The Discovery and Navigation of the Pacific: 267
• Spanish Travelers in the new Continent: 274
• The Magnetic Pole: 281
• the Atlantic Ocean Inflection observed in the isothermal lines a hund: 285
• The Southern Cross: 288
• The Age of the Conquista: 296
• Period of Oceanic Discoveries 228301: 301
• The Telescope: 302
• aniverse prepared the way for these discoveries Nicholas Copernicus: 303
• The different Stages of the Development of Cosmical Contempla: 309
• The Theory of Eccentric Intercalated Spheres: 316
• The Spots upon the Sun: 324
• The Zodiacal Light: 329
• Edmund Halley: 335
• The Electric Force: 341
• The fifteenth Century its Tendencies 228: 344
• Geognostic Phenomena: 347
• tific efforts of recent times The history of the physical sciences: 352
• The Power of penetrating Space: 353

書誌情報

• 書籍名: Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, 第 2 巻; Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, William Sweetland Dallas
• 著者: Alexander von Humboldt
• 翻訳: Elise C. Otté, Benjamin Horatio Paul, William Sweetland Dallas
• 出版社: Harper, 1852
• 書籍の提供元: アイオワ大学
• デジタル化された日: 2023年6月6日