INDEX. 



801 



"action at a distance,"!. 380 ; 'Pro- 

 perties of Matter, '388, 425; "Kinetic 

 Theory of Gases," 438; "kinetics," 

 ii. 5; 'Light,' 11, 592; 'Light' 

 quoted, 13, 36 ; criticism of Tyndall's 

 theory of heat, 57 ; translation of 

 Helmholtz's memoir on vortex motion, 

 58 ; memoir of Rankine, 62 ; ' Recent 

 Advances of Physical Science,' 63, 

 106,108; 'On Knots, '64; 'Recent 

 Advances of Physical Science ' quoted, 

 66; 'Sketch of Thermodynamics,' 

 controversy regarding, 97 ; ' Dyna- 

 mics,' 99; and Tyndall and others, 

 107 ; computations of Seguin, 109 ; 

 quoted on the relative values of the 

 terms "force" and "energy," 116; 

 perpetual motion defined, 124 ; pre- 

 face to Rankine's papers, 133 ; (see 

 Clausius), 135 ; physical view of 

 nature, 141 ; ' Heat ' quoted, 591. 



Tait and Crum Brown, Memoir of 

 Thomas Andrews, ii. 162. 



Tait and Steele, ' Dynamics of a Par- 

 ticle,' i. 101, it 144. 



Tait and Thomson. See Thomson and 

 Tait. 



Tail's ' Edinburgh Magazine ' published, 

 i. 273. 



Talbot, solar spectrum, i. 278. 



Talleyrand, public instruction, i. 109 ; 

 higher aims of, not realised, 112. 



Tannery, Jules, his lectures on theory 

 of functions, ii. 704 ; 737. 



Tauchnitz, edition of ancient classics, i. 

 167. 



Taylor, Bayard, ' Faust ' quoted, i. 52. 



Taylor, Brook, i. 101. 



Taylor, Charles, on continuity, ii. 

 660. 



Taylor, 'Scientific Memoirs,' i. 325, ii. 

 263 ; series of, 646. 



Telegraph, first, i. 92. 



Tennyson, mature thought of, i. 76. 



Tenon, i. 107. 



"Tension," ii. 138. 



Terquem, ii. 660. 



Terrestrial view, ii. 369. 



Teubner, editions of the ancient classics, 

 i. 167. 



Theietetus, Proclus on, ii. 634. 



Thenard, practical discoveries of, i. 

 147 ; organic analysis, 190 ; ' Chem- 

 istry, '200; ii. 508. 



Theological faculty iu German univer- 

 sities, i. 197. 



Thermodynamics, ii. 62 ; two laws of, 

 128. 



Theruio-elastic phenomena, ii. 142. 



VOL. 11. 



Thermo-electric phenomena, ii. 142. 



Theta function, Jacobi's, ii. 649 ; 696. 



TheVenot, original member of Paris 

 " Academic des Sciences," i. 228. 



Thibaud, i. 162. 



Thibaudeau quoted, i. 113 ; ' Le Con- 

 sulat et 1'Empire,' 149, 152. 



Thiersch, Fr., i. 162; conducted philo- 

 logical seminaries, 214. 



Tholuck, ' Das akademische Leben des 

 17^* Jahrhunderts,' i. 163. 



Thomasius represents spirit of Bacon 

 and Leibniz at Halle, i. 160. 



Thompson, Benjamin. See Count Rum- 

 ford. 



Thomson, V. L. P., a founder of phys- 

 ical chemistry, ii. 152 ; chemical 

 affinity, 171. 



Thomson and Tait, ' Natural Phil- 

 osophy,' i. 45, 101, 274, 316, 318, 

 376, ii. 61, 99, 144, 152, 153, 184, 

 358 ; the term " kinetics," 5 ; referred 

 to, 62, 148 ; influence of, 145. 



Thomson, J. A., 'Science of Life,' ii. 

 228, 271, 337, 338, 348, 349, 370, 436, 

 447; the term "homology," 259; 

 "Cell and Protoplasm," 266; 298; 

 " embryology," 299 ; quoted on von 

 Baer, 303 ; ' Evolution of Sex,' 344 ; 

 ' Science of Life ' quoted, 448, 455, 

 458 ; 459 ; on "stirps," 614. 



Thomson, James, harmonic analysis, i. 

 330 ; heat and ' ' perpetual motion, " 

 ii. 126 ; prediction, 126, 170 ; physical 

 view of nature, 141 ; "Crystallization 

 and Liquefaction," 142 ; theory of 

 energy, 166. 



Thomson, J. J., on vortex motion, ii. 

 63, 65, 183 ; Princetown lectures, 

 190 ; ' Researches,' 191 ; ' Discharge 

 of Electricity through Gases, ' 192 ; 

 electrical researches, 362. 



Thomson (the poet), i. 285. 



Thomson, Prof. Thos., i. 188 ; and Dai- 

 ton, 245 ; the atomic theory, 425. 



Thomson, Wm. (Lord Kelvin), on 

 chemical laboratories, i. 188 ; and 

 Helmholtz, 199, ii. 149 ; the conserva- 

 tion of energy, i. 201, ii. 128, 142 ; 

 Fourier's series, i. 241 ; Green's treat- 

 ise, 246 ; and Joule, 265, 434, ii. 110 ; 

 Faraday's " lines of force," i. 266, ii. 

 71 ; referred to, i. 272 ; his work, 

 274, ii. 133 ; on discovery of spectrum 

 analysis, i. 277 ; telegraphic connec- 

 tion with America, i. 303 ; absol 

 ute scale of temperature, 309,' 315 ; 

 " vortices," 312, 313; absolute meas- 

 urements, 323 ; submarine tele- 



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