Continuation

of the specific results of observation

in the field of

telluric phenomena. telluric: relating to the Earth, from the Latin 'tellus'

Introduction.

The fifth and last volume of the Cosmos, for which I intend this introduction, concludes the presentation of telluric phenomena in their purest objectivity. Together with the 4th volume, of which it is to be regarded as a continuation, it forms—according to the original plan of my work—a somewhat self-contained whole: that which is usually called physical geography. It was long my wish to have this 5th volume appear as a second section of the 4th, and simultaneously with that first section, as a counterpart to the single third, uranological uranological: concerning the study of the heavens or astronomy volume; but the even more unpleasant delay in publication caused by the fulfillment of this wish had to stand as an obstacle.

When, in the astronomical volume, the mutually disturbing and then compensating movements of the celestial bodies and (the contact of those within our planetary system