NOTES. 



( 1 ) p. 4. Kosmos, Bd. i. S. 56 59 and 141 (English edition, Vol. i. 

 p. 5053 and 126). 



( 2 ) p. 6. Kosmos, Bd. i. S. 6 8 ; Bd. ii. S. 10 12 and 92 (English 

 edition, Vol. i. p. 6 7 ; Vol. ii. p. 9 11 and 89). 



( 3 ) p. 6. Kosmos, Bd. ii. S. 2631 and 4449 (English edition, 

 Vol. ii. p. 2430 and 43 48). 



( 4 ) p. 7. Kosmos, Bd. i. S. 383386 ; Bd. ii. S. 141144 (English 

 edition, Vol. i. p. 354357; Vol. ii. p. 10?). 



( 5 ) p. 7. M. von Olfers, On the Remains of Animals of Gigantic Size 

 belonging to the Ancient World, in connection with Legends of Eastern Asia, 

 in the Abh. der Berl. Akad. 1839, S. 51. On the opinion of Empedocles 

 respecting the cause of the destruction of the more ancient forms of animal 

 life, vide Hegel's Geschichte der Philosophic, Bd. ii. S. 344. 



( 6 ) P- 7- Respecting the world-tree, Ygdrasil, and the raging fountain, 

 Hvergelmir, see Jacob Grimm's Deutsche Mythologie, 1844, S. 530 and 756 ; 

 and Mallet's Northern Antiquities, 1847, p. 410, 489, and 492. 



(') p. 9. Kosmos, Bd. i. S. 3033 and 6270 (English edition, 

 p. 3033 and 5664). 



( 8 ) p. 10. Kosmos, Bd. ii. S. 484 (English edition, p. 285 and xciv.) 



( 9 ) p. 10. In the introductory Contemplations in the first volume of 

 Cosmos (p. 33), it should not have been said generally and without exception 

 that " the discovery of laws, and their progressive generalisation, are the 

 objects of the experimental sciences :" a more limited sense should have been 

 given by the introduction of the words " in many groups of phenomena." 

 The manner in which I expressed myself in the second volume respecting the 



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