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attention of the learned men of that country, and 

 were pursued with a degree of diligence and 

 success which does them and the age which gave 

 them birth the highest honour. A few facts and 

 names only, out of the multitude which occur, 

 can be mentioned in this place. 



Natural or Mechanical Philosophy was cultivated 

 by a fevv' distinguished Germans in the seventeenth 

 century ; but in the eighteenth the number of this 

 class of philosophers astonishingl}^ increased in 

 every part of the empire. The names of Leib- 

 nitz, AVolf, Kastner, Lambert, Mayer, von Zach, 

 Herschel, Boze, Winckler, Ludolf, Richter, Y^olt- 

 man, von Humboldt, Schroeter, and Burckhardt, 

 are only a small portion of those whose fame has 

 fdled the scientific world, as the authors of im- 

 portant discoveries and improvements in philo- 

 sophy. 



In Natural History the Germans made wonder- 

 ful progress in the course of the last age. The 

 amount of what they accomplished in this branch 

 of science during the seventeenth century "was 

 comparatively small. Soon after the commence- 

 ment of the eighteenth century better prospects 

 opened, and since that time have been very ho- 

 nourably realised. No naturalist needs to be 

 reminded of the invaluable service rendered to 

 Zoology by madam^e Merian, Rosel, Klein, Lud- 

 wig, Frisch, Zimmermann, Blumenbach, Soem- 

 mering, Bloch, Muller, Leske, and Forster. Ad- 

 ditions, not less important, or less known, have 

 been made, within the same time, to Botanical 

 science, by Knaut, Gtcrtner, Iledwig, Schreb(^r, 

 Jacquin, Breidel, Gmelin, Wildenovr, S])rong(?l, 



