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Excerpt from Cosmos
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Principal epochs in the history of astronomy and mathematics from Galileo and Kepler to Newton and Leibnitz pp. 681-737 VIII. Retrospect. Multiplicity and intimate connection of the scientific efforts of recent times. The history of the physical sciences becomes gradually associated with the history of the Cosmos .pp. 738-741 SPECIAL SUMMAKY. A. Means of incitement to the Study of Nature .. pp. 370-372 I. Poetic delineation of nature. The principal results of observation referring to a purely objective mode of treating a scientific description of nature, have already been treated of in the picture of nature; we now, therefore, proceed to consider the reflexion of the image conveyed by the external senses to the feelings and a poetically framed imagination. The mode of feeling appertaining to the Greeks and Komans. On the reproach advanced against these nations of having entertained a leea vivid sentiment for nature. The expression, of such a sentiment is more rare amongst them, solely in consequence of natural descriptions being used as mere accessories in the great forms of lyric and epic poetry, and all things being brought in the ancient Hellenic forms of art within the sphere of humanity, and being made subservient to it. Paeans to Spring, Homer, Hesiod. Tragic authors: fragments of a lost work of A ristotle. Bucolic poetry, Nonnus, A nthology, p. 379. Romans: Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Lucilius the younger. A subsequent period, in which the poetic element appears only as an incidental adornment of thought; the Mosella, a poem of A usonius. Roman prose writers; Cicero in his letters, Tacitus, Pliny. Description of Roman villas p. 389. Changes in the mode of feeling and in their representation produced by the diffusion of Christianity and by an anchorite life. Minucius Felix in Octavius. Passages taken from the writings of the fathers of the Church:
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