INDEX. 



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rifci.nu.«, his "Lustration of the Fields," 

 34. 



Tieck, L'.idwig, quotation from, on Cal- 

 deron, 73 ; on Shakspeare, 73, 74. 



Timociiares, early Alexandrian astrono- 

 mer, 177, 178. 



Tin, early commerce for, 130, 131. 



Titian, landscapes in his pictures, 88. 



Toledo, astronomical congress of, 223. 



Torricelli, his invention of the barometer, 

 33S. 



Toscanelli, letters of, 246, 251 ; sea-chart, 

 261, 262 ; scientific acquirements, 267. 



Travels and travelers of the Middle Ages, 

 78, 249-253, 259 ; character of their nar- 

 ratives compared with those of modern 

 times, 78, 79. 



Tropics, luxuriant beauty of the land- 

 scapes, 97 ; cultivation of exotic plants, 

 99-105 ; paintings of tropical scenery, 

 90-92 ; why more accurate and beauti- 

 ful paintings may be anticipated, 99 ; 

 associations connected with descrip- 

 tions of tropical scenery, 99. 



Troy, data of its destniction, 115. 



Tscheu-kung, early measurement of the 

 length of the solstitial shadow, 115. 



Tsing-wang (Chinese emperor), use of 

 the compass and •' magnetic cars," 191, 

 253. 



Tuscaroras, on the language and descent 

 of, 236. 



Tycho Brahe, 109, 313, 316 ; his astro- 

 nomical discovery of the "variation," 



Tyre, Tyrians. See Phcenicians. 



IJkert on the amber trade of the ancients, 



131. 

 Ulugh Beig, observatory and gymnasium 



founded by, 223. 



Vcdas, Indian hymna, in praise of nature, 



50. 

 Veg'jtation of the cold and tropical zones, 



Venus, discovery of its crescent shape, 

 325, 326. 



Vespucci, Amerigo, 239, 283, 286, 289, 292^ 

 294 ; peculiar charm lent to his deline- 

 ations of nature, 65 ; examination of tha 

 accidental causes which led to the nam- 

 ing of the New World, 297-301. 



Vidal, Capt., height of the Peak of Tene- 

 ritfe, 135, 



Vincentius of Beauvais, 229, 2il ; his 

 " Mirror of Nature," 246, 253, 254. 



Vinci, Leonardo da, landscape in his pic- 

 ture of Mona Lisa. 88 ; attainments in 

 piiysical science, 283; on the ash-col- 

 ored light of the moon, 320 ; geognos- 

 tic conjectures, 347. 



Vinland, early American settlement of 

 the Northmen, 230-232, 238. 



Virgil, beauty of his descriptions of na- 

 ture, 32, 33. 



Vitruvius, 85. 98, 256. 



Voltaic pile, its discovery compared with 

 that of the telescope, 354. 



Voltaire on the "Araucuna" of Ercilla 

 71, 72. 



Vossius, Isaac, researches on light, 333. 



Waagen, Professor, notes on early paint 



ings, 86, 87. 

 Warahamihara, Indian mathematician, 



187. 

 Wellsted, first reported the existence of 



three mountain chains in Arabia, 205. 

 Weilautf on the amber trade, 131. 



Xenophanes, his geognostic conjectures, 

 189. 



Yemen, its natural products, 204, 205. 

 Young, Thomas, his discovery of the ia 

 terference of light, 332, 343. 



Zeni, the Fratelli, travels of, 238. 

 Zodiacal hijht, its discovery and scifctifit 



results, 3^29, 3.30. 

 Zuniga, Juana de, wife of Cortez, 271 



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