[255] Phidias (500?-432? b.c.), famous Greek sculptor.
[256] Egyptians. He has in mind the pyramids.
[257] The Pentateuch is attributed to Moses.
[258] Dante (1265-1321), the greatest of Italian poets, author of the Divina Commedia.
[259] Foreworld, a former ideal state of the world.
[260] New Zealander, inhabitant of New Zealand, a group of two islands lying southeast of Australia.
[261] Geneva, a city of Switzerland, situated at the southwestern extremity of Lake Geneva.
[262] Greenwich nautical almanac. The meridian of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, near London, is the prime meridian for reckoning the longitude of the world. The nautical almanac is a publication containing astronomical data for the use of navigators and astronomers. What is the name of the corresponding publication of the U.S. Observatory at Washington?
[263] Get the meaning of these astronomical terms.
[264] Plutarch. (50?-120? a.d.), Greek philosopher and biographer, author of Parallel Lives, a series of Greek and Roman biographies. Next after Shakespeare and Plato he is the author most frequently mentioned by Emerson. Read the essay of Emerson on Plutarch.