NOTES. V 



(27) p. 16. Kosmos, Bd. ii. S. 280291 (English edition, Vol. ii. 

 p. 243254). 



( 2S ) p. 17- See the ingenious and learned account of the writings of the 

 philosopher of Nola, in the work entitled Jordano Bruno, par Christian 

 Bartholmess, T. ii. 1847, p. 129, 149, and 201. 



(- 19 ) p. 17. He was burnt at Rome on the 17th of February, 1600, 

 according to the sentence "ut quam clementissime et citra sanguinis 

 effusionem puniretur." Bruno was a prisoner sis years under the leads at 

 Venice, and two years in the inquisition at Rome. Undaunted and unbroken 

 in spirit when the sentence of death was announced to him, he replied 

 " Majori forsitan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam." 

 When a fugitive from Italy (in 1580), he taught in Geneva, Lyons, 

 Toulouse, Paris, Oxford, Marburg, Wittenberg (which he called the Athens 

 of Germany), Prague, Helmstedt, where in 1589 he completed the scientific 

 education of Duke Henry Julius, of Brunswick- Wolfenbiittel (Bartholmess, 

 T. i. p, 167178), and from 1592 in Padua. 



I 30 ) p. 18. Bartholmess, T. ii. pp. 219, 232, and 370. Bruno collected 

 with care the several observations respecting the great cosmical event (1572) 

 of the sudden shining forth of a new star in Cassiopeia. The relations of 

 his natural philosophy to that of two of his Calabrian countrymen Bernardino 

 Telesio and Thomas Campanella, and to the platonisiug Cardinal Nicolaus Krebs 

 of Cusa (vide Kosmos, Bd. ii. S. 503 ; English edition, Vol. ii. p. 109), have 

 been much examined in modern times. 



( 31 ) p. 18. " Si duo lapides in aliquo loco muudi collocarentur propinqui 

 invicem, extra orbem virtutis tertii coguati corporis ; illi japides ad simili- 

 tudinem duorum magueticorum corporum coirent loco intermedio, quilibet 

 accedens ad alterum tanto iutervallo, quanta est alterius moles in compara- 

 tione. Si Luna et Terra non retinerentur vi animali (!) aut alia aliqua sequi- 

 pollente, qxisclibet in suo circuitu, Terra adscenderet ad Lunam quiuquagesima 

 quarta parte iutervalli, Luna descenderet ad Terram quinquaginta tribus circiter 

 partibus intervalli ; ibi jungereutur, posito tamen quod substantia utri usque 

 sit unius et ejusdem densitatis." Kepler, Astronomia nova seu Physica 

 coelestis de Motibus Stellse Martis, 1609, Introd. fol. v. On the older views 

 of gravitation, see Kosmos, Bd. ii. S. 348, 501, and 502 (English edition, 

 Vol. ii. pp. 308, cvii. aud cviii. 



t 32 ) p. 18. " Si Terra cessaret attrahere ad se aquas suas, aquse rnarinee 

 omnes elevarentur et in corpus Lunse influerent. Orbis virtutis tractoria3, quse 

 est in Luna, porrigitur usque ad terras, et prolectat aquas quacunqueinverticeiu 



