Excerpt from Transcendental Physics: An Account of Experimental Investigations From the Scientific Treatises of Johann Carl Friedrich Z llner Professor Zo'llner, the author and chief deponent, in whose house many of the facts he records occurred, was born in 1834, and is thus in the mature vigour of his intellectual life. He is Professor of Physics and Astronomy in the University of Leipsic, and has taken place in the front ranks of the scientific men of Europe. He has published many works, among which are Sketches of a Universal Photometry of the Starry Hearens, Physical Nature of the Heavenly Bodies, The Nature (f Comets, and these treatises. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.