COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 | Page 6

47 The
Object held in View by the present Work . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 The Nature of the Study of
the Cosmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 The special Requirements of the present
Age . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Limits and Method of Exposition of the Physical Description of
the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Considerations on the terms
Physiology and Physics . . . . . . . . .58 Physical Geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
59 Celestial Phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 The Natural Philosophy of the
Ancients directed more to Celestial than to Terrestrial Phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
The able Treatises of Varenius and Carl Ritter . . . . . . . . .66, 67 Signification of the Word
Cosmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68-70 The Domain embraced by
Cosmography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Empiricism and
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 The Process of Reason and

Induction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 p 14 GENERAL REVIEW OF NATURAL
PHENOMENA. Connection between the Material and the Ideal World . . . . . . . . 80
Delineation of Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Celestial
Phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Sidereal
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Planetary
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 Comets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
99 Aerolites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111 Zodiacal
Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Translatory Motion of the Solar
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 The Milky Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150
Starless Openings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Terrestrial
Phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154 Geographical
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161 Figure of the
Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163 Density of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
169 Internal Heat of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Mean Temperature of the
Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175 Terrestrial Magnetism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Magnetism . . . .