xviii TRANSLATOR S INTRODUCTION. 



should, at llu- end of the hook Tomns Secun- 

 dus, pp. J(o ^J.?. 



The now world renowned Appendix by 

 Holvai Janoix was an afterthought of the 

 father, who prompted the son not &quot;to occupy 

 himself with tlie tlieory of parallels,&quot; as 

 Staeckel says, but to translate from the Ger 

 man into Latin a condensation of his treatise, 

 of which the principles were discovered and 

 properly appreciated in 1SJ.\ and which was 

 i^iven in writing to Johann Walter von Kck- 

 \vehr in 1SJ5. 



The father, without waiting for- Vol. II, 

 rted this Latin translation, with separate 

 pa^in.u (1 Jo), as an Ap])endix to his Vol. I, 

 where, counting a pa.j^e for the title and a 

 pa-v &quot; lv\j)licatio si^norum,&quot; it has twenty- 

 six numbered pai^vs, followed by two unnum 

 bered pa^es of Errata. 



T.he treatise itself, therefore, contains only 

 twenty-four pa^* &amp;gt; the most e\traordinar\ 

 two do/i-n ia.i: es in the whole history of 

 thought! 



Milton received but a paltry /, &quot;5 for his 

 l &amp;gt; aradi&amp;gt;e Lo&amp;gt;t; but it was at least plus /,&quot;5. 

 IJolyai Janos, a&amp;gt; we learn from Vol. II, p. 

 of &quot; / &amp;lt;;/ la nu ti.&quot; contributed for the 



