COSMOS, VOL. II - World eBook Library

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
PART I.
INCITEMENTS TO THE STUDY OF NATURE.
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THE IMAOE REFLECTED BY THE EXTERNAL WORLD ON THE IMAGINA-
TION. POETIC DESCRIPTION OP NATURE. LANDSCAPE PAINTING.
THE CULTIVATION OP EXOTIC PLANTS WHICH CHARACTERISE THE
VEGETABLE PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE VARIOUS PARTS OF THE
EARTH'S SURFACE 370-372
L Description of nature. The difference offeeling excited by the
contemplation of nature at different epochs, and amongst different
races of men 372-439
Descriptions of nature by the ancients
Descriptions
373
of nature by the Greeks
Descriptions
375
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
Natural descriptions in the Hebrew writers
Hebrew poetry
Literature of the Arabs
409
411
413
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
Modern travellers
435
437
Goethe 439
II. Landscape painting, in its influence on the study of nature.
Graphical representation of the physiognovvy ofplants. The
character and aspect of vegetation in different zones 440-457
Landscape painting among the ancients
The brothers Van Eyck
443
445
Landscape painting of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Franz Post of Haarlem
447
449
Introduction of hot-houses in our garden
The treasures open to the landscape painter in the tropics
450
451