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INDEX 



Biot, 215 et seq. 



Black, 129, 133. 



Bodes Law, 189. 



Botany, 6, 26, 37, 39, 53, 231 



et seq. 



Bouvard, Alexis, 185. 

 Bouvard, Eugene, 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, 1 98 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. 



