INDEX 



195 



Modern science, born, 78 

 Monte Cassino, 155 

 Montesquieu, C. de S., 34 

 Morgan, T. H., 179 

 Moro, A., 39 

 Muhammad, 146, 148 

 CMusik der Zuhinft, 18 

 Muslims, 146 ff. 

 Muslim culture, decline of, 154 



Napier, J., 10 



Napoleon, 62 



Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, 153 



Natural law, 53 



Natural product, chemical synthesis 



of, 37 

 Neoplatonists, 67 

 Nestorians, 38 

 New humanism, 57 

 Newton, I., 24, 39-40, 45-46, 62, 64, 



79, 84 

 Nietzsche, F., 18 

 Nike, 42 

 Numerals, 4, 6, 37 



Observations, clinical, 140 

 Ophthalmology, first special course 



in, 17 

 Optics, 74 



Organic chemistry, 36 

 Origins of Christianity, 109 

 Ostwald, W., 43 



Pacioli, Fra Luca, 74 



Palestrina, 42 



Palissy, B., 41 



Papyrus, Edwin Smith, 138; Golen- 



ischev, 137; Rhind, 137-138, 141 

 Pascal, B., 42, 81 

 Pasteur, L., 62 

 Persia, capture of, 146 

 Peter of Spain (Pope John XXI), 



157 

 Petrarca, 76 

 Phidias, 39, 58 

 Philo, 147 



Philosophic positive, Cours de, 30 



Picasso, P., 25 



Pilgrimage roads, importance of, 20 



Plague, 72 



Plant structure, 75 



Plato, 101 



Platonic philosophy, 67 



Poincare, J. H., 26 



Poisson, S. D., 93 



Polycletus, 39 



Positive Philosophy, Course of, 122 



Practice, without theory, 73 



Priests, as transmitters of knowledge, 



38 

 Printing, re-discovery of, 159 

 Progress, causes of in science, 51 

 Progress of knowledge, boasting 



about, 183 

 Psycho-sociological point of view, 32 

 Ptolemy, 79, 183 

 Ptolemaic system, 151 

 Pumps, exhaustion, 36 

 Pure science, progress in domain of, 



13 

 Pyramids, 138 



al-Qazwini, 153 

 Quatremere, E. M., 109 

 Qur'dn, 148, 152 

 Qur'anic idiom, 150 

 Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, 153 



Radolf of Liege, 153 

 Ragimbold of Cologne, 153 

 Rashid al-Din, 21, 153 

 Raspail, F. V., 95 

 Richard, L. P. E., 88 

 Religion, science and, 37 

 Renan, Ernest, 101 ff.; Averroes, 

 108; Berthelot's influence on, 108 

 Renan, Henriette, 103 ff. 

 Research, genealogical, 54 

 Rhind papyrus, 137-138, 141 

 Rivet de la Grange, Dom A., 170 

 Rodin, F. A. R., 39 

 Roman numerals, 6 



