CIV NOTES. 



( 486 ) p. 287- Compaie Arago's comments' on Galileo's letters to Marcus 

 Welser, and his optical explanations and remarks on the influence of the 

 diffused solar light reflected from the strata of the atmosphere, which covers as 

 it were with a veil of light objects seen on the face of the heavens in the field 

 of a telescope. (Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes for 1842, p. 482 487.) 



(0 p. 288. Madler, Astr. S. 81. 



( 488 ) p. 288. Philos. Magazine, Ser. iii. Vol. 28, p. 230 ; and Poggend. 

 Annalen, Bd. Ixviii. S. 101. 



C 189 ) p. 290. Faraday on Atmospheric Magnetism, in " Exper. Researches 

 on Electricity," 25th and 26th Series (Phil. Trans, for 1851, Part 1), 2774, 

 2780, 2881, 28922968 ; and for the historical part of the research, 2847. 



( 49 ) p. 291. Compare Nervander, of Helsingfors, in the Bulletin de la 

 Classe physico-mathem. de 1'Acad. de St.-Petersbourg,T. iii. 1845, p. 30 32 ; 

 and Buys-Ballot, of Utrecht, in Poggend. Annalen der Physik, Bd. Ixviii. 

 1846, S. 205213. 



( 491 ) p. 291. I have distinguished by marks of quotation what I have 

 taken in p. 291 to p. 294 from Schwabe's manuscript communications. 

 The observations of the years 1826 to 1843 were previously published in 

 Schumacher's Astron. Nachr. No. 495, Bd. xxi. 1844, S. 235. 



( 492 ) p. 295. Sir John Herschel, Cape Obs. p. 434. 



( 493 ) p. 297. Kosmos, Bd. i. S. 207 and 442, Anm.49; Eng. ed. p. 188. 



( 494 ) p. 298. Gesenius, in the Hallischen Litteratur-Zeitung, 1822, No. 

 101 and 102 (Erganzungs bl. S. 801 812). The Chaldeans regarded the 

 Sun and Moon as the two principal divinities, and the five planets only as 

 presided over by Genii. 



( 495 ) p. 298. Plato, in the Timseus.. p. 38, Steph. 



( 4% ) p. 298. Bockh de Platonico systemate coelestium globorum et de vera 

 indole astronomiac Philolaicse, p. xvii. ; and the same author in the Philolaos, 

 1819, S. 99. 



( 497 ) p. 298. Jul. Firmicus Maternus, Astron. libri viii. (ed. Pruckner, 

 Basil. 1551), lib. ii. cap. 4 ; of the time of Constantine. 



( 498 ) p. 298. Humboldt, Monumens des peuples indigenes de rAmerique, 

 T. ii. p. 4249. At that early date, 1812, 1 called attention to the points of 

 analogy between the zodiac of Bianchini and that of Dendera. Compare 

 Letronne, Observations critiques sur les representations zodiacales, p. 97 ; and 

 Lepsius, Chronologic der Aegypter, 1849, S. 80. 



