INDEX

Académie des Sciences, 111, 112. Academy, at Athens, 19; Milton's plan, 102; Defoe's, 116; Franklin's, 125; type of secondary school, 282. Adams, John Couch, 188 et seq. Aerodynamics, 233. Agricola, George, 129. Agriculture, 12, 38, 107, 126, 137. Air, 157. Air craft, 71, 126, 231 et seq. Air-pump, 96. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 113. Albertus Magnus, 53. Alchemy, 50, 252. Alcuin, 52. Alexandria, 19, 44 et seq. Algebra, 49. Alkaline earths, 179. American Philosophical Society, 121. Anatomy, 6, 8, 38, 50, 78. Anemometer, 107, 235. Anthrax, 224 et seq. Antipodes, 37, 48. Antiseptic surgery, 220, 231. Application, 30 et seq. Aqua regia, 51, 132. Aqueducts, 33. Aqueous vapor, 157 et seq. Arago, 184. Archimedes, 27. Architecture, 30 et seq. Archytas, 18. Aristotle, 20 et seq., 49, 51, 53, 266. Arithmetic, 6, 11, 48. Arnold, Matthew, 273. Astrology, 10. Astronomy, (Egyptian and Babylonian) 2 et seq.; (Greek) 16; (Roman) 34; (Alexandrian) 45; (Hindu) 48; (Arabian) 49, 50; (Copernican) 55; (Tycho Brahe and Kepler) 87 et seq.; (Newton) 110 et seq.; (nebular hypothesis) 142 et seq.; (discovery of Neptune) 184 et seq. Atmosphere, 157. Atomic Theory, 158 et seq., 250. Atoms, 17, 148, 158, 253. Augustus Cæsar, 36. Averroës, 51 et seq. Avicenna, 51. Avogadro, 165. Babylonia, 1 et seq. Bacon, Francis, 57 et seq., 80 et seq., 105; Baconian principles, 211. Bacon, Roger, 54. Bacteria, 93. Bacteriology, 213 et seq. Bagdad, 49. Barbarians, 46. Barometer, 94 et seq. Basalt, 131, 132, 136, 137, 201. Becquerel, 233, 246 et seq. Beddoes, 173. Beer, 223, 226. Berzelius, 162. Bessel, 187. Biology, 6, 7, 23 et seq., 37, 53, 78, 109, 197 et seq., 213. Biot, 215 et seq. Black, 129, 133. Bode's Law, 189. Botany, 6, 26, 37, 39, 53, 231 et seq. Bouvard, Alexis, 185. Bouvard, Eugène, 187. Boyle, 96, 107. Buffon, 130, 135. Building material, 32. Cabanis, 258. Cairo, 49. Calendar, 9, 36. Carbonic acid, 138, 155, 157, 217. Carlisle, 177. Cato, 35, 38. Challis, 189. Charlemagne, 52. Charles II, 105. Chemical affinity, 159, 253. Chemistry, 6, 8, 50, 51, 155 et seq., 170 et seq., 245 et seq. Chicken cholera, 225. Chlorine, 180. Clocks, 89, 94. Collinson, 123. Columbus, 26, 54. Columella, 38. Comenius, 100. Comets, 10, 40, 149. Conservation of energy, 168. Constantine, 37. Copernicus, 55. Coral reefs, 203. Cordova, 50. Counting, 6, 11, 34, 49, 86. Cowley, 104 et seq. Cronstedt, 130. Curie, P. and S., 247 et seq. D'Alembert, 58. Dalton, 155, 157 et seq. Darwin, Charles, 198 et seq. Darwin, Erasmus, 199. Davy, 122, 163, 170 et seq. Deduction, 82. Defoe, 116. Democratic culture, 44, 270 et seq. Democritus, 17, 48, 148. Descartes, 57, 72, 82 et seq. Desmarest, 132. Dialogues of Plato, 19. Diderot, 58. Dioscorides, 39. Dyes, 24, 33, 71, 181. Earthquakes, 40, 137. Ebers papyrus, 7. Eclipses, 10, 16, 49. Education, 19, 35, 36, 40, 44, 52, 53, 100 et seq., 116, 122, 123, 171-72, 198, 213, 214, 216, 270 et seq. Egypt, 1 et seq. Electricity, 75, 123 et seq., 177, 231. Electrolysis, 178. Elements, 17, 20, 22, 155. Ellipse, 20. Embalmers, 7. Empedocles, 17, 40. Encyclopaedia, 58. Ethics, 21, 40, 41. Euclid, 18, 19. Evelyn, 109. Experiment, 72 et seq. Extinction, 206. Faraday, 181. Fermentation, 216 et seq. Fitzroy, 198. Flacherie, 221. Flamsteed, 110, 111, 184. Fossils, 140. Franklin, 15, 114. Galen, 38, 79. Galileo, 75 et seq., 95. Galapagos Archipelago, 208 et seq. Galle, 193. Galton, 258. Galvani, 177. Gascoigne, 93. Gassendi, 99. Gay-Lussac, 164, 181. Geber, 177. Geology, 129 et seq. Geometry, 4, 15, 18, 19, 84, 264. Gerbert, 53. Gilbert, 72, 74, 76. Glen Tilt, 136. Gnomon, 13, 33. Granite, 131. Graunt, 105, 109. Gravity, 110 et seq. Greece, 15 et seq. Gresham College, 101, 106. Grew, 109. Guericke, 96. Hall, Sir James, 129, 137 et seq. Halley, 110, 112, 186. Hammurabi, 12. Hartley, 172, 258. Hartlib, 99. Harun Al-Rashid, 48. Heat, 82, 155, 156, 166, 168, 173. Heliacal rising, 4. Helmholtz, 168, 258. Henry, 238. Heraclitus, 17. Herschel, Sir John, 192. Herschel, Sir William, 152 et seq., 184. Hindu arithmetic and astronomy, 48, 49. Hipparchus, 27, 45. Hippocrates, 27. Hobbes, 99. Homology, 26. Hooke, 107, 109. Hope, 138. Horrocks, 109. Horse, 204. Horticulture, 40. Hugo of St. Victor, 60. Humboldt, 131, 201. Hussey, 186. Hutton, 132 et seq. Huygens, 94, 111. Hydrophobia, 207, 227 et seq. Hypatia, 46, 48. Hypothesis, 147, 150, 245 et seq. I-em-hetep, 6. Ilu-bani, 12. Induction, 81, 177. Industries, 8, 27, 68 et seq., 173, 182, 220, 223, 226. Inoculation, 126. Inventions, 107, 233 et seq. Invisible College, 103. Iodine, 181. Iron, 8, 13, 182. Isidore of Seville, 60. James, William, 258, 261, 268. Joule, 155, 167 et seq. Julius Cæsar, 36. Kant, 142, 145 et seq. Kepler, 90 et seq., 110. Kindergarten, 281. Kircher, 93. Lactantius, 48. Lambert, 142, 149 et seq. Langley, 231 et seq. Laplace, 112, 150 et seq. Laurium, 27. Lava, 138. Lavoisier, 156, 172. Leeuwenhoek, 93. Leibnitz, 106, 112, 277. Lenses, 40, 50. Leonardo da Vinci, 72. Leverrier, 190 et seq. Libraries, 46, 48, 121. Lincoln, 43 et seq. Linnæus, 130. Lippershey, 92. Lister, 213, 220, 223. Locke, 116, 172, 258. Logarithms, 91. Logic, 21, 53. Lucretius, 40. Lyell, 197, 201. Magnetism, 75, 127. Magnifiers, 40. Malpighi, 93, 106, 109. Malthus, 121, 211. Manchester, 157. Marble, 139. Mars, 10, 91. Marsh gas, 126, 163, 182. Materia medica, 39, 51. Mathematics, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 15, 17, 18, 19, 34, 48, 49, 55, 87 et seq., 110 et seq., 184 et seq., 264. Maupertuis, 145. Mayow, 156. Measuring, 5, 10, 86 et seq. Mechanics, 18, 77, 231 et seq. Medicine, 6, 11, 27, 34, 126, 173 et seq., 207, 216 et seq. Mensuration, 5, 92. Mental imagery, 263. Mercury, 50, 51, 156. Mersenne, 99, 112. Metallurgy, 8, 13, 23, 50. Meteorology, 122, 133, 158. Microscope, 93. Milky Way, 144. Mill, John Stuart, 256. Milton, 102, 213. Mineralogy, 130. Minute and second, 46. Monochord, 17. Monte Cassino, 52. Moray, 104, 112. Murex, 24, 33. Napier, 91. Napoleon I, 151, 177, 214. Napoleon III, 221. Natural history, 23, 37, 52, 61. Navigation, 3, 16, 26, 54, 126, 231. Nebular hypothesis, 147, 150. Neptune, 184 et seq. Neptunist, 131. New Atlantis, 71, 100, 183. Newton, 110, 135, 158. Nicholson, 177. Nietzsche, 277 et seq. Nitric oxide, 156, 161. Nitrous oxide, 174. Novum Organum, 70, 72. Numerals, 6, 11, 34, 49, 87, 231. Observatories, 4, 49. Occupations, 12, 51, 58, 68 et seq., 107. Optics, 50, 54, 93. Organic remains, 126, 140. Origin of the sciences, 1 et seq. Origin of Species, 201. Pansophy, 100. Pascal, 95, 117. Pasteur, 213 et seq. Pearson, Karl, 60. Peirce, 195. Pepys, 110. Petty, 103, 122. Peurbach, 55. Philosophical Transactions, 109. Philosophy, 15 et seq., 134. Physics, 21, 28, 31, 32, 50, 54, 74 et seq., 94 et seq., 110 et seq., 128, 155 et seq., 170 et seq., 231 et seq., 245 et seq. Physiology, 6, 21, 38, 78, 173 et seq., 225 et seq. Picard, 111. Plato, 18, 270 et seq. Playfair, 133, 137. Pliny, 37. Pneumatic Institution, 173. Poincaré, Henri, 255, 267. Port Royal, 116, 279. Potash, 23, 51, 179. Potassium, 179. Precession of the equinoxes, 10, 112. Priestley, 126, 156. Primitive man, 206. Principia, 110, 114. Prism, 40. Protyl, 254. Psychology, 23, 256 et seq. Ptolemy, 45, 55. Pythagoras, 17. Quadrants, 50, 86. Quintilian, 39. Rabies, 227 et seq. Racemic acid, 215. Radioactivity, 245 et seq. Ramsay, 246. Ray, 110. Regiomontanus, 55. Religion, 3, 8, 10, 40, 43 et seq., 142 et seq. Rey, 94. Rhind papyrus, 6. Röntgen rays, 231. Rousseau, 270. Royal Institution, 176. Royal Society of Edinburgh, 133. Royal Society of London, 99 et seq. Rumford, 166. Rutherford, 247 et seq. St. Benedict, 52. St. Thomas Aquinas, 53. Saturn, 2, 92, 145. Saussure, 133. Scheele, 156, 180. Scientific apparatus, 17, 49, 86 et seq. Scotus Erigena, 53. Seneca, 40. Shaftesbury, 117. Signs of zodiac, 9, 33. Silkworm, 109, 221 et seq. Siphon, 95. Sirius, 4. Smith, Adam, 121, 133, 256. Smith, William, 139 et seq. Smithsonian Institution, 195, 233, 238. Socrates, 44, 117. Soda, 8, 51, 179. Soddy, 248 et seq. Sodium, 179. Sosigenes, 36. Sound, 33. Species, 24, 197 et seq. Specific gravity, 28, 36, 50. Spectrum analysis, 153, 231. Sphericity of the earth, 26, 37. Spontaneous generation, 25, 218. Sprat, 105, 109. Steel, 8, 23. Sundial, 13. Survival, 206. Syntaxis, 45. Tables, astronomical, 49, 50, 91, 185 et seq. Tanning, 177. Technology, 5, 16, 20, 27, 30 et seq., 50, 68 et seq., 86 et seq., 103, 107, 126, 129, 130, 139-41, 156, 160, 167, 177, 182, 231. Thales, 15. Theology, 47, 62, 172. Theon, 46. Theophrastus, 26, 39. Theory, 30, 41; T. of the Earth, 133. Tides, 38, 112. Torricelli, 95. Trade and trades, 12, 51, 68 et seq., 107, 115, 118. Transformation Theory, 249 et seq. Trigonometry, 46, 49, 55. Turgot, 121. Tycho Brahe, 87 et seq. Tyndall, 260-61. Uranus, 184 et seq. Vacuum, 95. Varro, 38. Vesalius, 78. Vitruvius, 30 et seq. Viviani, 94. Vivisection, 38, 71, 80. Volcanoes, 40, 136. Volta, 177. Vulcanist, 131, 137. Wadham College, 104. Walker, 195. Wallace, 211, 231. Wallis, 103. War, 46, 178, 213 et seq. War-engines, 28, 34. Watch, 94. Water, 157, 177. Water-clocks, 13, 94. Watt, Gregory, 172. Watt, James, 133, 156, 157. Wedgwoods, 138, 173, 199. Weighing, 7, 10, 86. Werner, 129 et seq. Wilkins, 101, 104. Willis, 104. Willughby, 109, 110. Wine, 220, 226. Wollaston, 119. Wool, 226. Wren, 104, 107. Wright, 143 et seq. Wundt, 258, 259. Xenophon, 117. Young, 258, 279. Zacharias, 92. Zodiac, 9, 33. Zoölogy, 7, 12, 21, 24, 25, 37, 53, 66, 109, 110, 197 et seq.

 

 

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parabola, the hyperbola--play a large part in the subsequent

Seneca, Physcial Science; translated by John Clarke.
Seneca, Physical Science; translated by John Clarke.

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College by 1658 it was the custom to remain for discussion

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slowly with the result that it had a stony, rather than a

This would correspond to 325° January 1, 1847.
This would correspond to 325° on January 1, 1847.

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sometimes, in the case of the γ rays, with velocity

positively and negatively chasged particles. Rutherford
positively and negatively charged particles. Rutherford

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