VI CONTENTS. 



II. LANDSCAPE PAINTING. 



Pag. 



In ancient Greece, Rome, and India 74 



Illuminated MSS. and mosaics 78 



The Van Eycks . . .78 



Titian 79 



European painters of the 16th and 17th centuries . . .81 

 Characteristic representation of tropical scenery . . . .82 

 Characteristic aspect of nature in different zones . . . .87 

 Panoramas 90 



III. CULTURE OF CHARACTERISTIC EXOTIC PLANTS. 



Influence of well contrasted grouping .92 

 On the laying out of parks and gardens 96 



HISTORY OF THE PHYSICAL CONTEMPLATION OF THE 

 UNIVERSE. 



Division into historic periods, or epochs of progress, in the 



generalisation of physical views ..... 101 to 116 



First Epoch. Knowledge of nature possessed by the 

 nations who in early times inhabited the coasts of the 

 Mediterranean, and the extension of that knowledge 

 by attempts at distant navigation towards the N. E. 

 (the Argonauts) ; towards the South (Ophir) ; and 

 towards the West (Cokeus of Samos) . . . 117 to 148 



Second Epoch. Military expeditions of the Macedonians 

 under Alexander the Great. Fusion of the East 

 with the West under Greek dominion and influence. 

 Enlargement of the knowledge of nature possessed 

 by the Greeks consequent on these events . . 149 to 165 



Third Epoch. Increase of the knowledge of nature under 

 the Ptolemies. Alexandrian Institution. Tendency 



