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INDEX 



Authority and scientific method, 



232 

 Autocatalytic reactions, 227, 228 

 Avogadro, A., 122 



Bachmann (Rivinus), 147 

 Bacon, Francis, 3, 6, 58, 72, 74, 79, 



80, 81, 83, 226 

 Bacteria, 166 

 Bacteriology, 167 

 Baer, K. I. von, 149, 151 

 Baeyer, Adolph von, 129 

 Baker, John R., 80, 126, 198, 233 

 Bassi, Agostino, 166 

 Battelle Memorial Institute, 215 

 Bauhin, Kaspar, 147 

 Beard, C. A., 13 

 Becker, J. J., 120 

 Becquerel, H., 135 

 Bell, Alexander, 175 

 Bell Telephone Company, 175, 207 

 Beneden, Edouard van, 159 

 Bensley, R. R., 157 

 Benzene, 125, 126 

 Berlin Academy, 86 

 Bernal, J. D., 62, 63, 199, 200, 229, 



231,232 

 Berzelius, J. J., 121, 122, 124, 131, 



166 

 Beta rays, 136 

 Bichat, N. F. X., 153 

 Biology, analogy with cycles, 37 



development of, 144 

 Birge, R., 139 

 Black, Joseph, 93, 152 

 Blood, circulation of, 146 

 Bohr, Niels, 111, 112, 137 

 Boltzmann, L., 93, 95 

 Bonnet, Charles, 150 

 Boullay, P., 124 

 Boulting, A. S., 20 

 Boyle, Robert, 55, 67, 83, 152 

 Brahe, Tycho, 90, 91, 96, 117 

 Brandeis, L., 204 



Breasted, J. H., 66, 70 

 Britain, destruction of Roman cul- 

 ture in, 3 

 Broglie, Louis de, 56, 113 

 Bronsted, J. N., 133 

 Brown, Robert, 154 

 Brunner, John, 217 

 Buckley, Charles E., 198, 199 

 Buffon, Georges de, 148 

 Bunsen, Robert, 116, 124 

 Bureau of Standards, 176 

 Bury, J. B., 6 



Bush, Vannevar, 184, 198, 199 

 Byzantine art, 33 



Cabot, Philip, 9, 16 



Caloric, 93 



Calvin, J., 74 



Camerarius, 151 



Capitalism, growth of, 77 



Carnegie Corporation, 176 



Carnegie Institution, 176 



Carnot, N. L. S., 94 



Carroll, Lewis, 68 



Catalysis, 131 



Cathode rays, 105 



Catholic struggle in England, 20 



Causation, realization of, 225 



Cavendish laboratory, 180, 182 



Cell structure, 153, 155 



Cell theory, 145, 155, 157, 164 



Cells, differentiation of, 172 



nuclear division in, 155 



respiration of, 170 

 Cesalpini, Andreas, 146 

 Chadwick, J., 138 

 Changes, 10, 12, 14, 15, 41 

 Characteristic curve, photographic, 



179 

 Characters, acquired, 148 

 Chemical analysis, 122 

 Chemical apparatus, 178 

 Chemical formulae, 121 

 Chemical ideas, growth of, 119 



