INDEX. 



363 



Job, book of, its impressive descriptions 

 of the natural scenery of the East, 59, 60. 



John of Salisbury, 248. 



Jupiter, controversy on the discovery of 

 his satellites, and marked influence of 

 the discovery on the extension of the 

 Copernican system, 330*22. 



Kalidasa, Indian poet, 50-54 ; his Sakun- 

 tala, 50, 51, 65 ; Vikrama and Urvasi, 51, 

 53 ; The Seasons, 51, 53, 74 ; Messenger 

 of Clouds, 51, 53. 



Kepler, his eulogium on Copernicus, 307 ; 

 ideas on gravitation, 310 ; great discov- 

 ery of the elliptic motion of the planets 

 round the sun, 314-317 ; astronomical 

 writings, 317; on the papal prohibition 

 of the Copernican system, 322 ; his 

 great mental and scientific characteris- 

 tics, 327 ; on comets and fixed stars, 

 327-329 ; Brewster, Chasles, and La- 

 place on his writings and theories, 327. 



Kien-long, Chinese emperor, descriptive 

 poem by, 103, 104. 



Kirghis steppe, its extent and population, 

 206. 



Klaproth, his researches on the Indo-Ger- 

 manic races, 186; letter to Humboldt 

 on the invention of the compass, 254. 



Klopsto.ck, 76. 



Lagides, the. See Ptolemies. 



Lambrecht, his " Song of Alexander," 49. 



Landscape painting. See Painting. 



Languages, their value and importance in 

 the history of the physical contempla- 

 tion of the universe, 110-112. 



Laplace on Kepler's theory of the meas- 

 urement of casks, 327 ; on the zodiacal 

 light, 329. 



Las Casas, Bartholomew de, 261, 262, 299- 

 301. 



Lassen, author's correspondence with, on 

 the ariena of Pliny, 159 ; on the black 

 Asiatic races, 165 ; on the incen.se of 

 Arabia, 204, 205. 



Leibnitz, character of his Protogcea, 349, 

 350. 



Leif, his discovery of America, 230, 231, 

 234. 



Lepsius, his chronological data for Egypt, 

 115, 124 ; on the monuments of the dis- 

 tant expeditions of Rameses Miamoun, 

 125 ; on the Semitic written characters, 

 129. 



Letronne on the Greek zodiac, 167; on 

 the canal of the Red Sea, 173 ; on the 

 epoch of Diophantus, 183 ; on tie early 

 discoveries of the Irish, 235, 



Licgnitz, Mongolian battle at, 202, 249. 



Lieu-tscheu, ancient Chinese writer, on 

 the pleasure felt in the possession of 

 gardens, 103. 



Light, gradual discovery of its phenome- 

 na, 332, 333. 



Lippershey, Hans, his claims to the dis- 

 covery of the telescope discussed, 317- 

 319. 



Lister, early researches by, in palaeontol- 

 ogy, 348, 349. 



Livy, writings of, 35. 



Log, use of in navigation, and date of its 



introduction, 256-258. 

 Longinus, 166. 

 Longus, his pastoral romance "Daphnis 



et Chloe," 28. 

 Lonnrot, Elias, collection of Finnish 



songs, 56. 

 Lucan, vivid description of nature in his 



works, 34. 

 Lucius the younger, his didactic poem of 



jEtna, 34. 

 Lucretius, his great poem "De Natura," 



30, 31 69. 

 Ludius, ancient Roman painter, 84. 

 Luis, Fray de Leon, description of night, 



72. 

 Lully, Raymond, scientific acquirements 



of, 254, 255. 

 Lusiad of Camoens, its truth to nature, 



68-71. 



Macedo, J. J. da Costa de, work on the 

 discovery of the Canaries, 135. 



Macedonians, influence of their cam- 

 paigns under Alexander the Great, 153, 

 192. 



Macpherson's Ossian, 48. 



Madeira, supposed notice of in Plutarch, 

 134. 



Madoc, western voyage of, 235, 236. 



Magellan, navigation and discoveries of, 

 in the Pacific, 269, 270. 



Magellanic clouds, first notices of, 286- 

 288. 



Magnetism, observations and discoveries 

 in the Middle Ages of Columbus, 277- 

 279; Cabot, 279, 280; Gassendi, 280; 

 Robert Norman, 281, 335 ; modern re- 

 searches William Gilbert's, 334 ; Ara- 

 go, 334 ; Faraday, 334, 336 ; Edmund 

 Halley, 335 ; Frederic Gauss, 337 ; Ant- 

 arctic expeditions, 335, 336. 



Mahabharata, Indian heroic poem, 50, 52, 

 147, 156. 



Malus, discovery of polarization by, 332, 

 343. 



Mandeville, John, his travels, 78 ; their 

 characteristics, 251. 



Manetho, Egyptian dynasty of, 124. 



Marco Polo, his travels and admirable 

 narrative, 250, 251 ; early editions of, 

 and whether known to Columbus, 251. 



Marinus Sanuto, writings of, 252. 



Marinus of Tyre, his isthmus hypothesis, 

 127, 266; myth on the Indian Ocean, 

 193 ; on the breadth of the Old Conti- 

 nent, 268. 



Marius, Simon, on the invention of the 

 telescope, 318; discovered the moons 

 of Jupiter simultaneously with Galileo, 

 320, 321 ; nebula in Andromeda, 331. 



Martel, Charles, on the results of his vic- 

 tory over the Moslems at Tours, 202. 



Masudi, Arabian historian, account of the 

 remains of a ship of the Red Sea, 127. 



Materia Medica, Hindoo and Arabic 

 knowledge of, 211. 



Mathematicians, Grecian, 164, 176-179; 

 Babylonian, 167 ; Indian, 168, 224, 225 



