COSMOS: 



A PHISICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVEBSE. 



SPECIAL RESULTS OF OBSERVATION IN THE DOMAIN OF 

 COSMICAL PHENOMENA. 



INTRODUCTION. 



IN pursuance of the aim which I had proposed to myself, 

 as attainable in a degree commensurate with my own powers 

 and with the present state of knowledge, I have consi- 

 dered Nature, in the two volumes of the Cosmos which 

 have already appeared, in a twofold point of view. I have 

 sought to represent her, first, in the pure objectivity of 

 external phsenomena, and, next, as the reflex of the image 

 received through the senses on the mirror of man's inner 

 being, his ideas and feelings. 



The external world of phsenomena has been described 

 under the scientific form of a general picture of Nature in 

 her two great spheres, uranologic and telluric ; beginning 

 with the stars which glimmer amidst nebulae in the most 

 distant regions of space, and descending through our plane- 



