INDEX. 



789 



Munro, 'Lucretius,' ii. 4. 



Miinsterberg, Dr Hugo, psycho-physics, 

 ii. 518 ; experiments, 521. 



Murdoch, W., not member of any uni- 

 versity, i. 239. 



' Musenalmanach ' of Schiller and 

 Goethe, i. 84. 



Museum d'Histoire naturelle, i. 112. 



Nageli, C. von, co-editor with Schleiden 

 of 'Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche 

 Botanik,' i. 195 ; mechanical theory 

 of organic structures, ii. 224 ; per- 

 fection of micrometric processes, 229 ; 

 271 : inductive school of, 321 ; 351 ; 

 'Micellar Theory,' 425, 427, 611; 

 Weismann on, 435 ; process of intus- 

 susception, 443; "idioplasma," 448 ; 

 613. 



Nansen, Fridjof, arctic exploration, ii. 

 207 ; quoted on the ubiquity of 

 organic germs, 453. 



Napier, John, logarithms, i. 94. 269 ; 

 272, 282. 



Napoleon I., relation to science, i. 42; 

 offered prize for discovery of a process 

 of manufacturing carbonate of soda, 

 92 ; 107 ; his influence on science, 

 149 ; quoted from Thibaudeau, 150 ; 

 founded Universite Imperiale, 151 ; 

 favoured mathematical sciences, ib. ; 

 152 ; his scientific glory derivative, 

 154 ; statistical methods employed by, 

 153 ; 206 ; animal magnetism, ii. 476. 



Napoleon III. , scientific reports, i. 42. 



Narbonne, i. 151. 



Nasse, Chr. Fried., physiological 

 method in medicine, ii. 388. 



Nations, work of the three, compared, i. 

 298 ; disappearance of national differ- 

 ences, 305. 



Natural history, first public course in 

 Paris, i. 143. 



Naturalistic school in France, i. 75. 



Nature, history of, how to be under- 

 stood, i. 2 ; philosophy of, 204 ; 

 philosophy of, and medical science, 

 209 ; English love of, 284 ; statistical 

 view of, 438 ; kinetic view of, ii. 1 et 

 neq. ; physical view of, 95 et seq. ; mys- 

 tery of the actual processes of, 366. 



Naturphilosophieoi Schelling and Hegel, 

 i. 178,207; ii. 315. 



Naumann, C. F., " morphology of the 

 surface of the earth," ii. 212. 



Navier, mecanique moleculaire, i. 359 ; 

 360, 379; theory of elasticity, ii. 31, 

 41 ; properties of the ether, 33 ; syn- 

 thetic method, 100. 



Nees von Esenbeck, ii. 265. 



Neptnne, discovery of, i. 277. 



Neptunists and Plutonists, i. 283, 290. 



Nernst, ' Theoretical Chemistry,' i. 448, 

 ii. 186. 



Neumann, Carl, development of astron- 

 omical view of nature, i. 366 ; quoted 

 on provisional character of electrical 

 formulae, 375 ; ' Die Principien der 

 Electrodynamik,' 376 ; ii. 186 ; on 

 potential, 698 ; and Dirichlet's prin- 

 ciple, 708. 



Neumann, Franz, the elder, mathe- 

 matical physics, i. 44 ; 199 ; experi- 

 ments in chemistry of, 429 ; proper- 

 ties of ether, ii. 31 ; analytical method 

 of, 45; "elastic" theory of ether, 

 54 ; influences Helmholtz, 150 ; 

 theory of electro-dynamic phenom- 

 ena, 151 ; 193. 



Neumann, Kaspar, statistical tables of, 

 ii. 565. 



Newlands, periodic law of, i. 422, 423. 



Newport, his discovery, ii. 227. 



Newton, value of work of, i. 93 ; cor- 

 rected the thought of Bacon, 95 ; his 

 work completed and amplified by 

 Laplace, 97 ; mathematical reason- 

 ings of, substantiated, 99 ; invention 

 of " fluxions," 100 ; influence on the 

 popular mind inappreciable, 105 ; 118, 

 119, 123 ; contrasted with Cuvier, 132 ; 

 137 ; Cuvier on the gravitation theory 

 of, 146 ; Gauss's appreciation of, 181 ; 

 discoveries of, frequently forestalled 

 by others, 184 ; 'Principia,' 188, 189, 

 227, ii. 6 ; pre-eminent as an exact 

 thinker, i. 222 ; indebtedness of 

 French science to, 226 ; notation of, 

 233; and Young, 244, ii. 9; Flam- 

 steed's observations, i. 250 ; 267, 279, 

 *82, 311; "energy," 312; 317; 

 astronomical instruments, 322 ; 323, 

 325 ; lunar theory, 329 ; 332 ; mathe- 

 matical expression of astronomy, 

 333 ; matter and force, 334 ; "de- 

 scription and explanation" of phen- 

 omena, 337; gravity not "essential 

 and inherent," 340 ; mechanical 

 explanation of gravitation, 342 ; 

 emanation hypothesis of light, 

 344 ; actio in distant, 346 ; gravita- 

 tion, 351, 353 ; molecular attrac- 

 tion, 354 ; Horsley's edition of 

 his works, 355 ; correspondence 

 with Cotes on molecular attraction, 

 ib. ; Hauksbee's experiments, 356 ; 

 358 ; St Venant on, and Boscovich, 

 360; idea of mass, 362; 370, 372, 



