Cosmos, Vol. 5

⁸ (p. 9.) "It has been repeatedly urged by continental critics," says a reviewer of Cosmos who is personally unknown to me but very benevolent (Atlas, 9 Jan. 1858), "that Baron Humboldt has not entirely solved his cosmographical axiom; still, Kosmos is a gorgeous accumulation of facts, the result of immense experience, study, and research, combined with some equally grand insights original: "aperçus", points of view, and theories. It is an improved Pliny Referring to Pliny the Elder, author of the Roman-era 'Natural History' of the present time, just such a work as a scholar original: "savant" and a traveller of his rank could produce. Whether such acquirements could be combined with the high specialising genius of Plato, and the still older Greek sages, we have no means of judging, as no such constellation has yet appeared amongst the ranks of man."

⁹ (p. 10.) See the excellent treatise by Regnault in the Annals of Chemistry original: "Annales de Chimie" Vol. 73. 1840 p. 5; 3rd Series Vol. I. 1841 p. 129, Vol. IX. 1843 p. 322.

¹⁰ (p. 11.) Regarding the non-repulsion of the optical axes of crystals, see Knoblauch and Tyndall in Poggendorff's Annals Vol. 81. p. 481 and Vol. 83. p. 384.

¹¹ (p. 12.) Séguin in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal Vol. X. 1824 p. 280 and in the Reports of the Academy of Sciences original: "Comptes rendus de l'Acad. des Sc." Vol. XXV. 1847 p. 421; Joule in the Philosophical Magazine Vol. 31. 1847 p. 173; Thomson and Joule in the Philosophical Transactions for 1853 P. III. p. 357; Clausius in Poggendorff's Annals Vol. 79. 1850 p. 368 and Vol. 97. 1856 p. 441; Duhamel, Course of Mechanics 1853 chap. 7 p. 401; Grove, Correlation of Physical Forces original: "corrélation des forces physiques", translated into French by the Abbé Moigno, with notes by Mr. Séguin the elder (Paris 1856); See von Quintus Icilius, Experimental Physics p. 438—448. (Even Francis Bacon original: "Franz Baco" says: Heat is an expansive motion. original Latin: "Calor est motus expansivus.")

¹² (p. 15.) Leo Meyer in Adalbert Kuhn's Journal for Comparative Philology original: "Zeitschr. für vergleichende Sprachforschung" Vol. VI. 1857 p. 161, 164, 171, 172, 174 and 175. "Just as in the word cosmos original Greek: "κόσμος" the concept of dividing and separating transitioned into that of order, so on the other hand could the concept of distinguishing or excelling easily develop from it."