GENERAL INDEX. 



Machine, definition of . 



Atwood's, for experiments on falliig bodies 

 Camus' s, for moving sieres . . i 

 Hungarian, for raising water -. 



weighing, described . 

 mechanical efficacy of ^ % 



Machines, hydraulic . , 



Machinery, classification of . . 



kinds of effects produced by 



HYDRAULICS 

 MECHANICS, t. ii. 



PRELIMINARY TREAT. 



HYDROSTATICS 

 PNEUMATICS 



Magnetizing power of the solar rays . . OPTICS . 



Magnifying power of lenses, cause of . . . . . . . 



Magnitude, smallest, visible by a microscope . . . . 



Malus, M., his researches on the polarisation of light . , POLAR. OF LIGHT 



his formulae for, the intensity of pencils of light . 



Marquis of Worcester's steam-engine . . . . . MECHANICS, t. i. 



Masses, equal, have forces proportionate to their velocities 

 Mathematics, definition and objects of 



mixed ...... 



Mathematical truths distinguished from physical . 



illustrations of hydrostatics . . 

 Measuring of heights by the barometer 



exhaustion of air by ditto . . . 



Mechanical philosophy, its objects . . . 



powers described ..... 



agency of air ..... 



of heat . . - . . 

 of water .... 



efficacy of machines .... 



of pulleys .... 



force communicates double refraction to glass plates 

 Mechanics, practical, its objects .... 



works on, referred to ... 



Meniscus, a species of lens, described t 



refraction of light through . i / . 

 Metals, specific heat of . . 



Metallic thermometers described 

 Method of procuring ice in India ... 



of measuring the refractive powers of opaque bodies 

 Micrometer-screw, described ..... 



Microscope, principles of ...... 



compound .... 

 reflecting .... 



smallest magnitude, visible by . 

 reflecting, proper form of their mirrors , . 



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MECHANICS, t. i. 2 



MECH. t. i. 11. MECH. t.iii.^6 

 MECHANICS, t. ii. . 64 

 HYDRAULICS . .17 

 MECHANICS, t. ii. . 12 

 13,24 

 9 

 3 



. 1 

 29 



. 14 

 32 

 9 

 15 



. 32 

 7 

 2 

 11 

 7 



27,30 

 10 



. . 16 



PRELIMINARY TREAT. 11 



. 18 



MECHANICS, t. i. .23 27 



. 2932 



. 1923 



t.ii. . 13, 24 



POLAR. OF LIGHT 

 PREL. TREAT. 17. MECH. 

 MECHANICS, t.ii. . 

 OPTICS . . 



HEAT 



POLAR. OF LIGHT 

 MECHANICS, t. ii. 

 OPTICS 



t.i. 



Milky 



way, causes of its light 



Milt, Barker's centrifugal, described ... 



Mind of man distinguished from his body . 



Mineralogy, objects of the science ..... 



Minerals and crystals, table of, with character of their axes 



Mirage, description and cause of that phenomena . 



Mirrors, reflection of rays of light from .... 



formation of images in ..... 



of reflecting microscopes, proper form of . . 



telescopes . . , 



spherical aberrations in . . . 

 Mixed mathematics defined ...... 



Mixtures, frigorific or freezing, different .... 



temperatures of ... 

 tables of ... 



Moment or momentum, definition of . . . . . 



Moon, mountains in, capable of being measured . . . 



Moral philosophy, definition and objects of ... 



Morveau's pyrometer described ...... 



Mother of pearl, prismatic colours of, communicable by impression 

 structure of . . . . . 



Motion o r dies, acceleratin of ..... 



, . ( ..or uf . 



PRELIMINARY TREAT. 

 HYDRAUL. 30. MECH. t. ii. 55 

 PRELIMINARY TREAT. 33 



. 12 



POLAR. OF LIGHT . 26 

 OPTICS . 5659 



. . . 1617 



1820 

 . . . .22 



. . 22 



22 

 11 

 59 

 62 

 60 

 5 

 17 



PRELIMINARY TREAT. 

 HEAT 



MECHANICS, t. ii. . 

 PRELIMINARY TREAT. 



HEAT . 

 OPTICS 



MECHANICS, i. 

 HYDRAULICS 



21 



38 



39 



9 



D 



