INDEX. 



607 



fire, 227; Digbyon, 377; Greene's 

 references to, 369 ; induced by 

 earth, 227; Jewish knowledge of, 

 29; mineral, 372; Michell on 

 law of, 236; Peregrinus on law 

 cf, 173; Porta on law of, 235; 

 Sarpi on, 226; Shakespeare on, 

 370; term first used by Kircher, 



365. 

 Magnetite, in ancient China, 73; 



nature of, 19. 

 Magnetization, Gilbert on, 289; of 



compass needle, 130; of iron in 



air, 289. 



Magnetizers, the, 372. 

 Magnetometer, Gilbert's, 312. 

 Magnetotherapy, 24. 

 Mahomet's coffin, myth of, 46. 

 Maimonides, 29. 



Manetho, on magnet in Bgypt, 28. 

 Marbodeus, 42; on jet, 43. 

 Marcellus Enipiricus ou lodestone, 



93- 



Marco Polo, 189. 



Mariner's compass, see Compass. 



Mather, Rev. Cotton, 463. 



Matter, Aristotelian, 276, 282. 



Matthiolus, garlic theory of, 281. 



Maundevile on magnetic rocks, 99. 



Maurolycus on magnetic rocks, 204. 



Mausoleus, 46. 



Measuring instrument, first elec- 

 trical, 523. 



Medicine, first application of elec'y 

 to, 501-502. 



Melancthon on magnet, 143. 



Mercurial phosphorus, 455, 490. 



Mercury light, obs'd by Picard, 



453- 



Mersenne, 378. 

 Meteorites as talisman, 57. 

 Meteorologia, Gilbert's, 329. 

 Michell, law of magnetism, 236. 

 Miles, Dr., on sparkling persons, 



503. 

 Milesian doctrine, Theophrastus 



dissents from, 41; philosophy 



(see Thales). 



Milton, reference to sun's "mag- 

 netic beam," 438. 

 Monconys, Balthasar, 388. 

 Mongols, 59, 62, 83. 

 Monmor, De, 378. 

 Moon, mag. effect of earth on, 292; 



mapped by Gilbert, 329. 

 Mortimer, Dr. Cromwell, on elec. 



fire, 505. 

 Motor, germ of electric, 49; Gordon 



invents electric, 507; Kinners- 

 ley's electric, 560; Peregriuus' 

 magnetic, 167, 177, 182. 



Mountains, magnetic, 96 et seq. 



Musschenbrceck, Peter V., 517. 



Mycenae, amber at, 15. 



Mysticism, 94. 



Mythology, Greek, 31. 



N. 



Nature, Aristotelian use of term, 

 284. 



Navigation, ancient Arab, 103; 

 Chinese, 77; Egyptian, 58; Etrus- 

 can, 59; Greek, 54; Norse, 112; 

 Phoenician, 15, 55; Solomon's, 



55; 



Navigator's supply, Barlowe's, 336. 



Necho, voyages of, 58. 



Neckam, Alexander, 120; and Pere- 

 grinus compared, 174. 



Newton, Isaac, definition of ether, 

 511; disc'y of univ'l gravitation, 

 435; elec. exp'ts, 445; finds field 

 of force in intervening medium, 

 440; laws of motion, 439; on lines 

 of force, 442; on luminous bodies, 

 458; theory compared with Gil- 

 bert's, 435. 



Nicander, legend of Magnes, 19. 



Nichol, Prof., on inductive method, 

 330. 



Nickel-in-slot machine, ancient, 87. 



Nollet, Jean Antoine, 516; ampli- 

 fies elec. theory, 554; denounces 

 lightning-rods, 593; exp'ts on 

 light, vegetables and animals, 

 527; on identity of elec'y and 

 lightning, 573. 



Nomads, the, 61. 



Non-conductors, electrics become, 

 482. 



Non-electrics, become conductors, 

 482; Gilbert's list of, 305. 



Norman, Robert, 211, 213. 



Normans, conquest by, 116. 



Norse, legends of mag. rocks, 99. 



Northmen, the, 112. 



Nova Philosophia, Gilbert's, 318. 



Novum Organum, criticisms of Gil- 

 bert in the, 328. 



o. 



Odyssey, supposed reference to 



compass in, 54. 

 (Eneus of Euripides, 24. 

 Ophir, voyages to, 55. 



