INDEX 



Abacus, use of, 6, 153 

 Abel, N. H., 83, 88, 98-99 

 Accounting, system used by Sume- 



rians, 136 

 Adelard of Bath, 155 

 Ahmose, 141, 153 

 Al- * * *, see under part of name 



following al 

 Albert the Great, 158 

 Alberti, L. B., 69 

 Algebra, 151; Hindu, 147 

 Almagest, 155 

 Anatomy, 70, 80 

 Angelico, Fra, 39 

 Animals, domestication of, 135 

 Apollonius, 150 

 Arabic contributions to knowledge, 



150 n\; numerals, 6; treatises, trans- 

 lation of into Latin, 155 

 Arabs, intervention between ancient 



Greece and western Christendom, 



145 ff. . 

 Archibald, R. C., 137 

 Archimedes, 10, 39-40, 79, 84, 150 

 Architecture, Romanesque and 



Gothic, 21 

 Aristocracy, 114 

 Aristotle, 45, 79 

 Arithmetic, 140; Hindu, 147 

 Art, needed for the understanding of 



science, 21; compared to science, 



24; religious, 27; technical progress 



in, 27; science and, 39 ff. 

 Asclepieia, 140 

 Asclepius, 138 



Asiatic arts, peculiarities of, 21 

 Astrologers, 76 



Astronomical observations, 151 

 Astronomy, Greek, 140, 147 

 Athena, Renan's prayer to, 102 



Automaticity, principle of, 73 

 Averrocs, by Renan, 108 

 Avicenna, 8, 150, 153 

 al- c Awwam, ibn, 153 



Babylonian science, 5; numeral sys- 

 tem, 5; origin of Greek astronomy, 

 140; planetary observations, 136 



Bacon, R., 74, 79, 158 



al-Baitar, ibn, 153 



Banking, 37 



Barr, A. H., Jr., 25 



al-Battani, 149 



Battuta, ibn, 153 



Belot,' E., 46 



Berthelot, M., 106, 107, 112, 114; in- 

 fluence on Renan, 108 



Billroth, T., 17-19 



al-Biruni, 153 



al-Bitruji, 153 



Blood, circulation of, 7, 32 



Boerhaave, H., 16-17 



Bohn, G., 46 



Bolland, J. de, 170 



Bollandists, 170 



Boniface VIII, Pope, 76 



Book-keeping, 37 



Borgia, Cesare, 68 



Borodin, A. P., 26 



Botany, 72 



Botticelli, S., 39 



Brahms, J., 17 



Brahmsgemeinde, 18 



Bramante, L., 67 



Breasted, J. H., 138 



Breughel, P., 42 



Brittany, 101 



Buckle, H. T., 56-57 



Bull, L., 137 

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