470 



INDEX 



Buffon, 318, 335, 372, 386 

 Btmsen, 353 

 Biirgi, 244, 252 



Caesar, 143 



Calculus, 96, 99, 112, 147, 253, 273, 279, 



282, 296, 324 



Calendar, 21, 29, 38, 143, 181, 242 

 Calippus, 78 

 Caloric, 265, 312 

 Calorimetry, 312 

 Candolle, de, 374 

 Canopus, Decree of, 108 

 Capella, M., 147 

 Carbon, 309 



Carbonic Acid Gas, 305, 309 

 Cardan, 239 

 Carnot, 350 

 Catastrophism, 383 

 Cavalieri, 278-280 

 Cave Animals, 386 

 Cavendish, 306, 309 

 Cell Theory, 375, 391 

 Centrifugal Force, 288 

 Chaldeans, 8 

 Chambers, 369 

 Charlemagne, Schools of, 153 

 Chemistry, 226, 260, 304, 360 

 Chladni, 311 

 Church, Attitude of, 149 

 Circle, Squaring of, 28, 32, 67, 98, 



337 



Clausius, 357, 364 

 Clepsydra, 27, 40, 127, 148, 163 

 Clocks, 188, 248, 266, 287, 328 

 Columbus, 181, 192 

 Combustion, 260, 262, 307, 309 

 Comets, 83, 207, 302 

 Comparative Anatomy, 390 

 Compass, 164, 187 

 Computation, 41, 147, 182, 236, 242 

 Computing Machine, 285, 301 

 Conic Sections, 76, 95, 108-112, 281 

 Conservation of Energy, 289, 348, 349, 



355, 357 

 Contagion, 375 

 Continuity, 79 



Coordinates, 110, 122, 125, 273, 277 

 Copernicus, 55, 194-203, 339, 407 

 Cosmogony, 371, 387 

 Cosmology, 23, 45, 73, 77 

 Cotton Gin, 441 

 Coulomb, 354 

 Counting, 23-25 

 Crete, 16-18 

 Crusades, 172 

 Crystallography, 364 

 Ctesibius, 123 



Cube, Duplication of , 68, 71, 75, 76, 108, 



241 

 Cubic Equations, 100, 135, 163, 179, 



239 



Cuneiform Writing, 9 

 Cusa, Nicholas of, 192 

 Cuvier, 372, 386 



d'Alembert, 328 



Dalton, 361 



Dante, 181 



Dark Ages, 141, 152 



Darwin, 367, 393, 394-396 



Davy, 364 



Decimal Fractions, 252 



Decimal System, 159, 178 



Degrees, 29 



Delia Porta, 228, 269 



Democritus, 33, 46, 48, 61, 62, 77 



Desargues, 280 



Descartes, 111, 265, 270, 271, 273- 



280 



Descent of Man, 395 

 De Vries, 396 

 Dinostratus, 65 

 Diophantus, 133-138, 276, 282 

 Disease, 264 



Dissipation of Energy, 358 

 Dissociation, electrolytic, 365 

 Division, 183 

 Dufay, 314 

 Diirer, A., 235 

 Dynamics, 248, 293 

 Dynamite, 439 



Earth, Motion of, 54, 85, 116, 128, 192, 



195 



Size of, 82, 107, 163, 199 

 Eclipses, 10, 28, 30, 43, 55, 121, 129 

 Ecliptic, 55, 108, 129 

 Economy of Nature, 282, 283, 390 

 Egypt, 11, 29-34, 36, 43, 45, 49, 139 

 Elasticity, 346 

 Electricity, 313, 354, 445 

 Electric Lighting, 445 

 Electrolysis, 364 



Electromagnetic Theory of Light, 355 

 Elements, 45, 47, 52, 59, 74, 83, 261, 



315, 363 



Ellipse, 99, 110, 279, 280 

 Embryology, 256, 375 

 Empedocles, 59 



Energy, 348, 349, 355, 357, 358 

 Engineering, 104, 123, 142, 321, 447 

 Epicurus, 84 



Epicycles, 118, 129, 199, 212 

 Epigenesis, 375 

 Equant, 129, 199 



