ROYAL LIBRARY OF MUNICH original: "BIBLIOTHECA REGIA MONACENSIS"

Specific Results of Observation

Telluric Phenomena.

The term "telluric" refers to things relating to the Earth, specifically its physical properties and natural forces.

Introduction.

In a comprehensive work where ease of understanding and clarity of the overall impression are sought, the composition and structure in the arrangement of the whole are almost more important than the richness of the content. This need becomes all the more palpable because in the book of nature (in the Cosmos), the generalization of views—both in the objectivity of external appearance and in the reflection of nature upon the inner being of man (upon his imagination and his feelings)—must be carefully separated from the enumeration of individual results. That generalization, in which the worldview appears as a natural whole natural whole: the concept that all forces in nature are interconnected; but in which it is also demonstrated how, under the most diverse zones and throughout the course of centuries, humanity has gradually sought to recognize the cooperation of forces: is contained in the first two volumes of the Cosmos. If a significant sequence of phenomena