Scilla, c. 494 Scot, Michael, c. 270 Seebeck, Dr., b. 375, 386; c. 90 Seneca, a. 210, 363; b. 63, 66 Sextus Empiricus, a. 251 Sherard, c. 291 Simon of Genoa, c. 270 Simplicius, a. 269, 273 Sloane, c. 291, 329 Smith, Mr. Archibald, b. 460 Smith, Sir James Edward, c. 330 Smith, William, c. 507, 516 Snell, b. 347 Socrates, c, 390 Solomon, a. 309; c. 260 Sosigenes, a. 122, 210 Sprengel, c. 440 Stahl, c. 116 Tacitus, a. 294 Tartalea, b. 13, 20, 27 Taylor, Brook, b. 85, 110, 307 Tchong-Kang, a. 152, 199 ̧ Tennemann, a. 311 Thales, a. 24, 26, 37, 143 Thenard, c. 141 Theodore Metochytes, a. 274 Theophrastus, a. 271; c. 258, 261, Thomas Aquinas, a. 308, 318, Thomson, Dr., c. 149, 152 Timocharis, a. 167 Torricelli, b. 48, 52, 65, 67 Tournefort, c. 301, 417 Tostatus, a. 256 Totaril, Cardinal, a. 327 Tragus, c. 276 Trithemius, a. 308 Troughton, b. 268 Turner, c. 152 Tycho Brahe, a. 422, 432; b. 346 Vaillant, Sebastian, c. 417 Vallisneri, c. 494 Van Helmont, c. 107 Varignon, b. 59; c. 409 Varro, Michael, b. 10, 17, 30, 39 Vesalius, c. 392, 394, 423 Vincent of Beauvais, c. 270 Werner, c. 197, 224, 231, 504, 515, Whewell, b. 250; c. 216 Wilke, b. 500; c. 18, 25 Wilkins (Bishop), a. 390; b. 40, 146 Willis, Thomas, c. 423, 427 Wolf, Caspar Frederick, c. 439 Wollaston, b. 365, 367, 369, 385; c. 149, 207 Woodward, c. 496, 500, 602 INDEX OF TECHNICAL TERMS. ABERRATION, b. 258 Absolute and relative, a. 48 Accelerating force, b. 32 Armed magnets, c. 49 Art and science, a. 331 Artificial magnets, c. 50 Ascendant, a. 300 Acronycal rising and setting, a. 146, Astrolabe, a. 203 Achromatism, b. 363 Acid, c. 109 Acoustics, b. 304 and errata Action and reaction, b. 58 Etiology, c. 482 Affinity (in Chemistry), c. 113 Affinity (in Natural History), c. 353 Alidad, a. 231 Alineations, a. 192 Alkali, c. 109 Almacantars, a. 231 Almagest, a. 214 Almanac, a. 231 Alphonsine tables, a. 225 Alternation (of formations), c. 541 Analysis (chemical), c. 107 (polar, of light), b. 384, 385 Angle of cleavage, c. 202 Animal electricity, c. 66 Anïon, c. 166 Annus, a. 113 Anode, c. 166 Anomaly, a. 151, 171 Antarctic circle, a. 144 Apotelesmatic astrology, a. 301 Circles of the sphere, a. 140 Coexistence of vibrations, b. 318 Conditions of existence (of ani- Conduction, b. 468 Conductivity, b. 475 Conductors, c. 11 Conical refraction, b. 451 Consistence (in Thermotics), b. 499 Constituent temperature, b. 513 Cor (of plants), c. 283 Cosmical rising and setting, a. 146 Craters of elevation, c. 463 First law of motion, b. 22 Fixity of the stars, a. 191 Franklinism, c. 22 Fresnel's rhomb, b. 424 Fringes of shadows, b. 382, 451 Full months, a. 128 Function (in Physiology), c. 377 Galvanism, c. 69 Galvanometer, c. 89 Ganglionic system, c. 425 Ganglions, c. 424 Generalisation, a. 11 Geocentric theory, a. 360 Gnomon, a. 119 Gnomonick, a. 155 Golden number, a. 130 Gravitate, b. 163 Iatro-chemists, c. 108 Interferences, b. 391, 403 Isomorphism, c. 220 Isothermal lines, b. 480; c. 541 Nebular hypothesis, c. 485 Neutral axes, b. 385 Neutralisation (in Chemistry), c. 109 |