Note 1 — PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
Reading edition
Among these, I may mention as works to which I have peculiar obligations, Tennemann’s Geschichte der Philosophie; Degerando’s Histoire Comparée des Systèmes de Philosophie; Montucla’s Histoire des Mathématiques, with Delalande’s continuation of it; Delambre’s Astronomie Ancienne, Astronomie du Moyen Age, Astronomie Moderne, and Astronomie du Dix-huitième Siècle; Bailly’s Histoire d’Astronomie Ancienne, and Histoire d’Astronomie Moderne; Voiron’s Histoire d’Astronomie (published as a continuation of Bailly), Fischer’s Geschichte der Physik, Gmelin’s Geschichte der Chemie, Thomson’s History of Chemistry, Sprengel’s History of Medicine, his History of Botany, and in all branches of Natural History and Physiology, Cuvier’s works; in their historical, as in all other portions, most admirable and instructive.