CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 



PART I. 



INCITEMENTS TO THE STUDY OF NATURE. 



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THE IMAGE REFLECTED BY THE EXTERNAL WORLD ON THE IMAGINA- 

 TION. POETIC DESCRIPTION OF NATURE. LANDSCAPE PAINTING. 

 THE CULTIVATION OF EXOTIC PLANTS WHICH CHARACTERISE THE 

 VEGETABLE PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE VARIOUS PARTS OF THE 



EARTH'S SURFACE 370-372 



I. Description of nature. The difference of feeling excited by the 



contemplation of nature at different epocJis, and amongst dif- 

 ferent races of men 372-439 



Descriptions of nature by the ancients 373 



Descriptions of nature by the Greeks 375 



Descriptions of nature by the Romans 383 



Descriptions of nature in the Christian fathers 393 



Descriptions of nature by the Indians 397 



Descriptions of nature by the Minnesingers 399 



Descriptions of nature by the Arian races 403 



Natural descriptions by the Indians 405 



Natural descriptions in the Persian writers 409 



Natural descriptions in the Hebrew writers 411 



Hebrew poetry 413 



Literature of the Arabs 415 



General retrospect 417 



Descriptions of nature in early Italian poets 419 



Descriptions of nature by Columbus 421 



Descriptions of nature in Camoens' Lusiad 425 



Descriptions of nature in Ercilla's Araucana 427 



Calderon 429 



Modern prose writers 431 



Travellers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries 435 



Modern travellers , 437 



Goethe 439 



II. Landscape painting, in its influence on the study of nature. 



Graphical representation of the physiognomy of plants. The 



character and aspect of vegetation in different zones 440-457 



Landscape painting among the ancients 443 



The brothers Van Eyck 445 



Landscape painting of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 447 



Franz Post of Haarlem 449 



Introduction of hot-houses in our garden 450 



The treasures open to the landscape painter in the tropics 451 



