Copernicus, 681; greatness of his 

 epoch, 683; his lite and studies, 

 tiS4, 680; grandeur of his ntars, 

 and boldni'ss of liis teaching, (586 

 689; hi* eloquent description of his 

 system, tSS. (>S<); knowledge of the 

 ideas of the ancients on (lie struc- 

 ture of the universe, 691, 692. 



Cortenovis, Father Angelo, stnry ie- 

 lated by, on tlie tomb of Lars Por- 

 sena, 503. 



Cortex, Hernan, expeditions of, 617 

 648, 675. 



Cosa, Juan de la, map of the world. 

 639, 642, 677. 



Cosmas, Indicopleustes, 006, 557, 649. 



Cosmos, its science and history discri- 

 minated, 466, 468. 



Coupvent and Dnmoulin,on the height 

 of the Peak of Tenerifle, 498. 



Covilham, Pedro de, and Alonso de 

 Pavya, embassy to Prester John, 

 627." 



Crenzer, on the 'Adonis Gardens' of 

 the ancients, 450. 



Crusades, slightness of their influence 

 on the minne-singers, 400, 401. 



Ctesias, his account of an Indian 

 spring, 501 ; on tlie relations be- 

 tween lightning and conducting 

 metals, 503; on India, 519, 521, 

 523. 



Ctesibus, hydraulic clock of, 545, 591. 



Curtius, fine natural picture, in his 

 writings, 388, 389. 



Cuss, Nicholas de, a German cardinal, 

 revived the doctrine of the earth's 

 rotation on its axis, and translation 

 in space, 469. 



Cnvier, his lite of Aristotle, 525528; 

 on the scientific merits of Frederick 

 II., 618; palaeontological researches, 

 733. 



Cuyp, his landscapes, 147. 



Dante, ' southern stars,' quotation, 371; 

 instances of his deep sensibility to 

 the charms of nature, 418, 419; no- 

 tices in his poetry on Aristotle, 525 ; 

 on Albertus Magnus, 619; on the 

 magnetic needle, 629; on the con- 

 stellation of the southern cross, 667 

 668. 



Darwin, Charles, vivid pictures in his 

 writings, 437. 



Delillo, his poems on nature, 437. 



Dschayadeva, Indian poet, his ' Gita- 

 govinda,' 408. 



Diaz, Bartholemew, his discovery of 

 the Cape of Good Hope, 627. 



Dicavuv.hus, diaphragm, of, 516, 517. 

 f>44. 



Die-nil, Irish monk, his work ' De Men- 

 sura, Orbi.s Terra-, <><>s. 



Diodorus, on the Gardens of Semi 

 ramis, 400, praise of the Etrus- 

 cans, 504. 



Diophantus, the arithmetician and al- 

 gebraist, 551, 555, 596. 



Dioscorides of Cilicia, botanical inves- 

 tigations of, 550, 562, 563, 574, 580, 

 581. 



Distillation of a fluid, first mention of, 

 528. 



Dorians, their mental characteristics, 

 506; migrations, 512 514. 



Drummond's incandescent lime-ball, 

 707, 708. 



Dschebar, Arabian chemist, 580, 589. 



Duran D. Augustin, his Romaucero, 

 428. 



Ebn-Junis, first employed a pendulum 

 to measure time, 591 ; his astrono- 

 mical observations, 594, 595. 



Eckhout, his large pictures of tropical 

 productions, 451. 



Eginhard, on the Arabian clock sent 

 to Charlemagne, 591. 



Egypt, its chronological data, 475, 

 485 490; civilization, 487 490; 

 monuments of its kings, 485, 486 ; 

 victories and distant expeditions of 

 Ramses Miamen, 486488 ; Egyp- 

 tian navigation, 487 490; founda- 

 tion of a permanent foreign com- 

 merce introduced with Greek hired 

 troops, and its results, 489, 490, 501; 

 its greatness under tlie Ptolemies, 

 536 546; intercourse with distant 

 countries, 538 540. 



Ehrenberg, on the incense and myrrh 

 of Arabia, 574. 



Elcano, Sebastian de, completed the 

 first circumnavigation of the globe 

 after the death of Magellan, 647. 



Electrical science, gradual dawn of, 

 725728. 



Elephants, African and Indian, 540 

 541 ; immense armies of 541 



