Note 6 — Section 21. AN APPARENTLY INSIGNIFICANT FACT[1] OFTEN[2] LEADS TO GREAT RESULTS.
Reading edition
[1] Thatsache, f.
[2] See S. 5, N. 2, and place the adverb after the verb; ‘result’, Resultat, n.
[3] Luigi Galvani, italienischer Anatom, entdeckte 1780 den Galvanismus. ‘When — discovered’, say ‘When Galvani made the discovery’.
[4] ‘leg’, here Schenkel, m.; to twitch, in Zuckungen geraten; when placed = when (S. 18, N. 6) the same was (S. 2, N. 1) brought.
[5] it — imagined, hätte man sich kaum vorstellen können; ‘that so apparently ... a’, daß eine scheinbar so.
[6] zum.
[7] which — together, welcher die Geister der Kontinente mit einander verbindet; before — elapse = in a few years.
[8] See App. § 16.
[9] to put a girdle round the globe, einen Gürtel rings um die Erde ziehen. ‘Rings um die Erde zieh’ ich einen Gürtel in viermal zehn Minuten.’ Puck, Sommernachtstraum.