List of Illustrations 



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Fig. 1. Title page of Gesner's De Lunariis, 1555 ... 74 



2. Rondelet's luminous marine invertebrates, 1555 . 74 



3. Aldrovandi's jellyfish, 1606 74 



4. Early drawings of creeping and flying glowworms . 74 



5. Early drawings of the cucujo, a luminous beetle . . 74 



6. Frontispiece of Kircher's Ars Magna Lucis et Um- 



brae, 1671 106 



7. Title page of Bartholin's De Luce Animalium, 1647 106 



8. Title page of Baldewein's book, Aiirum Superius, 



etc. (1675) on the hermetic phosphor .... 106 



9. Title page of Vogel's thesis, De Avihus Noctu Lucen- 



tibus, 1669 106 



10. Title page of Rivinus and Bohme's De Noctu Lucen- 



tibus, 1673 138 



11. Title page of Kletwich's medical thesis, De Phos- 



phoro Liquido et Solido, 1688 138 



12. Title page of Casati's book, De Igne, 1688 . . . 138 



13. Plate showing experiments on firefly from Bottoni's 



Pyrologia Topographica, 1692 138 



14. Title page of Harris translation of Lemery's Cours 



de Chymie, 1686 170 



15. Title page of Mairan's prize essay, Sur la Cause de la 



Lumiere des Phosphores et des Noctiluques (1717) 170 



16. Title page of Cohausen's prize essay. Lumen Novem 



Phosphoris Accensum, 1717 170 



17. Title page of Priestley's History of Vision, Light and 



Colours, 1772 170 



18. Title page of C. Bernoulli's essay, Uber das Leuchten 



des Meeres, 1803 202 



19. Title page of Heinrich's book. Die Phosphorescent 



der Korper, \^n-\^2.Q 202 



20. Title pages of two books of E. Becquerel, on Divers 



Effets Lumineux (1859) , and La Lumiere (1867) 202 



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