Practicability of the study of
physical cosmography -- p. 33-54. Misunderstood popular knowledge,
confounding cosmography with a mere encyclopedic enumeration of natural
sciences. Necessity for a simultaneous regard for all branches of natural
science. Influence of this study on national prosperity and the welfare of
nations; its more earnest and characteristic aim is an inner one, arising
from exalted mental activity. Mode of treatment with regard to the object
and presentation; reciprocal connection existing between thought and speech
-- p. 54-56.
The notes to p. 28-33. Comparative hypsometrical data of the elevations of
the Dhawalagiri, Jawahir, Chimborazo, Aetna (according to the measurement of
Sir John Herschel), the Swiss Alps, etc. -- p. 28. Rarity
p 16
of palms and ferns in the Himalaya Mountains -- p. 29. European vegetable
forms in the Indian Mountains -- p. 30. Northern and southern limits of
perpetual snow on the Himalaya; influence of the elevated plateau of Thibet
-- p. 30-33. Fishes of an earlier world -- p. 46.
Limits and Method of Exposition of the Physical Description of the Universe
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