INDEX 



471 



Equations, Theory of, 241, 277, 296 

 Equinoxes, Precession of, 120, 129, 165, 



199 



Erasistratus, 113 

 Eratosthenes, 107, 122 

 Ether, 286, 356 



Euclid, 88-95, 97, 110, 134, 173 

 Eudemus, 38, 42 

 Eudoxus, 77, 88, 90, 105, 119 

 Euler, 283, 326 

 Eustachius, 227 

 Evolution, 225, 317, 322, 343, 349, 366, 



388, 395 



Excentric Orbits, 117, 129 

 Exhaustion, Method of, 77, 112 

 Experimentation, 259 

 Explosives, 440 



Fabricius, 227, 255 



Falling Bodies, 80, 239, 246 



Fallopius, 227 



Faraday, 354, 364 



Fermat, 110, 282, 301 



Fermentation, 258, 378 



Ferrari, 239 



Fibonacci, 177, 178 



Finger Reckoning, 147, 182 



Fizeau, 352 



Fluids, 249, 289. (See also Hydrostatics) 



Fluxions, 296, 326 



Food Preservation, 446 



Fossils, 56, 228, 316, 317, 385 



Foucault, 352 



Fractions, 30, 135, 163 



Frankland, 362 



Franklin, 270, 314, 329 



Fraunhofer, 353 



Fresnel, 351 



Frontinus, 144 



Function, 243, 324, 327, 336 



Galen, 113, 142, 146 



Galileo, 63, 217-226, 230, 245-253, 267, 



310, 414 



Galvani, 314, 321 

 Gas, 258, 305, 321, 443 

 Gauss, 323, 337, 340 

 Geminus, 38, 85, 97 

 Geography, 107, 132, 145, 181 

 Geology, 315, 371, 383 

 Geometry, Egyptian, 32, 33 



primitive, 25 

 Gerbert, 155 

 Germ Theory, 378 

 Gesner, 228, 386 

 Gilbert, 228, 313 

 Gioja, 187 

 Glaciers, 385 



Goethe, 374 



Gravitation, 214, 291-295, 342 



Gray, 314 



Greek Science, 35, 59, 131, 139 



Green, 345, 354 



Grew, 268 



Guericke, 257, 313 



Gunpowder, 164, 439 



Gutenberg, 189 



Hales, 263, 268, 305, 335 



Haller, 319 



Halley, 296, 302 



Hargreaves, 441 



Harriott, 245 



Harvey, 255, 264, 271, 375, 412 



Hawksbee, 311, 313 



Heat, 249, 312, 350 



Hebrews, 16 



Helmholtz, 311, 323, 356-359, 439, 444 



Helmont, Van, 258 



Heraclides, 85 



Hero, 123 



Herodotus, 16 



Herophilus, 113 



Herschel, 333 



Hertz, 356 



Hicetas, 54, 56 



Hindu Science, 156-160 



Hipparchus, 119-123, 126, 129, 131 



Hippias, 65 



Hippocrates of Chios, 67, 90 



Hippocrates of Cos, 63, 113, 377 



Oath of, 399 

 Hooke, 268, 316 

 Hour, 28, 40 

 Huggins, 353 

 Humanism, 185, 191 

 Humboldt, von, 393 

 Hunter, 319 

 Hutton, 317, 383 

 Huxley, 269, 366, 372 

 Huygens, 266, 286 

 Hydrogen, 306, 309 

 Hydrostatics, 103, 249, 252 

 Hypatia, 138 

 Hypsicles, 115 



Impact, 288, 290 



Incommensurables, 89 



India-rubber, 444 



Indivisibles, 278, 297 



Industrial Revolution, 320, 367 



Infinitesimals, 66, 78, 299, 326 



Infinity, 159, 251 



Integration, 280, 289 



Internal Combustion Engines, 446 



Inventions, 123, 189, 320, 396, 438-448 



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