CHAPTER III.-SEQUEL TO COPERNICUS. THE RECEPTION Sect. 1. First Reception of the Copernican Theory. Sect. 2. Diffusion of the Copernican Theory Sect. 5. The Heliocentric Theory confirmed on Physical Considerations. (Prelude to Kepler's Astro- nomical Discoveries.) Sect. 1. Intellectual Character of Kepler Sect. 2. Kepler's Discovery of his Third Law CHAPTER V.-SEQUEL TO THE EPOCH OF KEPLER. RECEPTION, ADDITIONAL NOTE IN VOL. I. Page 6, line 7. I have attempted to illustrate somewhat further the nature of Inductive reasoning, in a small work entitled the Mechanical Euclid, and in the Remarks annexed thereto. Page 42, line 16, for inscribed, read invented. INDEX OF PROPER NAMES. ABDOLLATIF, c. 391 Achilles Tatius, a. 138 Agassiz, c. 373, 514, 544 Airy, b. 107, 223, 277, 364, 446 Albertus Magnus, a. 308, 326; c. Aristophanes, a. 125 Aristotle, a. 41; b. 44, 295, 344, Arnold de Villa Nova, a. 338 Arzachel, a. 225 Avicenna, a. 251, 279 Avienus, a. 209 542, 600 Beccaria, c. 18 Beccher, c. 116 Bede, a. 257, 317 Bell, Sir Charles, c. 425 Bélon, c. 359, 446 Benedetti, b. 10, 20, 26, 46 Bergman, c. 114, 138, 200 Bernoulli, John, b. 84, 87, 93, 98, Berthollet, c. 115, 132, 138 Berzelius, c. 142, 151, 175, 222, Brongniart, Adolphe, c. 543 Brougham, Lord, b. 382, 431 Bruno, Giordano, a. 384 Buch, Leopold von, c. 520, 525, Buckland, Dr., c. 536 Buffon, c. 192, 419, 445 Burkard, c. 418 Burnet, c. 566, 602 Cabanis, c. 467 Cæsalpinus, c. 192, 277, 280 Calceolarius, c. 495 Calippus, a. 130, 161 Callisthenes, a. 167 Camerarius, Joachim, c. 278 Camerarius, Rudolph Jacob, c. 416, 418 Campanella, a. 303, 326 Campani, b. 273 Camper, c. 445 Canton, c. 17, 49 Cappeller, c. 194 Cardan, b. 9, 17, 37, 45 Carlini, b. 246 Carne, c. 540 Caroline, Queen, b. 192 Carpa, c. 394 Casræus, b. 30 Cassini, Dominic, b. 217, 241, 255, 280, 311 Castelli, b. 52, 55, 62, 67 Catelan, b. 82 Cavallieri, b. 201 Cavendish, b. 246; c. 26, 125, 133 Cauchy, b. 117, 328, 455 Caus, Solomon de, b. 40 Cesare Cesariano, a. 349 Christina, b. 136 Chrompré, c. 175 Cicero, a. 124 Cigna, b. 111; c. 22 Clairaut, b. 100, 103, 113, 171, 213, 238, 243, 363 Clarke, b. 88, 194 Cleomedes, a. 198, 207 Cobo, c. 290 Colombe, Ludovico delle, b. 62 Constantine of Africa, c. 270 Cosmas Indicopleustes, a. 255 Coulomb, c. 25, 30, 34, 53 Cramer, b. 315 Cronstedt, c. 230 Cuvier, c. 356, 429, 448, 453, 465, D'Alembert, b. 89, 95, 101, 108, D'Alibard, c. 18 Dalton, Dr. John, b. 497, 509, 516, 521; c. 147, 152 Daniell, b. 521; c. 559 D'Arcy, b. 119 Davy, c. 141, 157, 162, 170 De Candolle, Prof. c. 339, 441 Dechen, M. von., c. 535 Degerando, a. 251, 311 De la Rive, Professor, b. 533 De Lisle, b. 202 De Luc, b. 506, 520 Démeste, c. 197 Democritus, a. 64; c. 258 Derham, b. 502 Desaguliers, c. 11 Descartes, b. 24, 32, 50, 55, 66, 76, 131, 199, 347, 350; c. 51. Des Hayes, c. 514 Desmarest, c. 502, 506 Dexippus, a. 275 Digges, b. 37 Diogenes Laërtius, a. 239 Dominis, Antonio de, b. 347 Ebn Iounis, a. 224 Etienne, c. 394, Euclid, a. 98, 145 Eudoxus, a. 161, 166 Euler, b. 93, 101, 104, 109, 113, 119, |