INDEX. 



Abarbanel, 29. 



Academy, del Cimento, exp'ts of, 

 432; French, on Great Pyramid, 

 58; of Sciences, French Royal, 

 formation of, 378, 450. 



Acmon, 22. 



Addison, refers to Strada's magnetic 

 teleg'h, 384. 



Adsiger, Peter, 192. 



Advancement of Learning, criti- 

 cisms on Gilbert in Bacon's, 328. 



^Egean Sea, iron on coasts of, 22. 



Aelfred, King, 114. 



Affaitatus, Fortunius, 211. 



Age of iron, 20. 



Agricola, George, describes gnomes, 

 25 ; on amber, 241. 



Air pump, Boyle's exp'ts on, 414; 

 Guericke's, 389 ; Hauksbee's, 457. 



Akenside, refers to Strada's teleg'h, 

 384. 



Akkadians, connection of, with 

 Chinese, 63. 



Albertus Magnus, on lodestone, 158, 

 308. 



Aldrovandus, collections of, 342. 



Alexander of Aphrodiseus, 93, 303. 



Alexander the Great, campaigns, 38. 



Alexandria, Univ'y of, 44. 



Alfonso X., laws of, in. 



Allamand, describes Leyden Jar, 

 521. 



Altaic nations, 61. 



Amalfi, 1 1 6. 



Ambassadors, Chinese legend of 

 the, 69. 



Amber, ancient trade routes of, 15; 

 ancient use of, for decoration, 16; 

 and lyncurium identical, 43; As- 

 clepiades on, 52; attraction, Agri- 

 cola on, 247; attraction, Cardan 

 on, 249; attraction, distinguished 

 by St. Augustine, 89; attraction, 

 Fracastorio on, 241; attraction, 

 first Chinese knowledge of, 74; 

 attraction, first obs'd by Syrian 



women, 17; attraction of watef 

 by, 310; attraction, Plutarch on, 

 50; Baltic, 15; black, 43; Boyle 

 distils to caput mortuum, 419; 

 called "harpaga," 17; deposits 

 of, 15; disc'y of, in lake dwellings, 

 Ji ; Galen on, 52; Greek legends 

 of, 74; in ancient China, 74; in 

 ancient Greek literature, 16; in 

 Egyptian temples, 52; insects in, 

 17; lack of, in Egypt, 52; -soul, 

 not conceived by Thales, 34; St. 

 Augustine distinguishes attraction 

 of, 89; Theophrastus on, 40. 



Amplitude, sun's, 198. 



Amulets, lodestone, 25. 



Anatomy, in Gilbert's time, 262. 



Anatomy of Melancholy, Burton's, 

 368. ' 



Anchor, invention of, 59. 



Animals, Nollet's exp'ts on electri- 

 fying, 527. 



Annals of China, national, 65. 



Anthony of Bologna, 188. 



Antiphyson, 93. 



Apellikon of Teos, 43. 



Apollonius Pergaeus, 44. 



Appulus, William, 117. 



Apuleius, on Thales, 35. 



Arab compass, no. 



Arabian Nights, story of magnetic 

 rocks in the, 96. 



Arabs, in Spain, 108; on magnetic 

 rocks, 100; early navigation of, 

 103. 



Archimedes, 44; sphere of, 166. 



Aristotle, Arabic treatises of, 157; 

 deductive method of, 39; estab- 

 lishment of school of, 38; on 

 Thales, 33, 34; on water soul, 34; 

 phil'y of, followed by Gilbert, 282; 

 referred to by Bacon, 279; rela- 

 tion of Gilbert to, 270; says noth- 

 ing about amber-soul, 35. 



Armature, first vibrating, 49, Gal- 

 ileo on the, 345, 348; Gilbert's, 

 288. 



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