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INDEX 



Leibnitz, 106, 112, 277. 

 Lenses, 40, 50. 

 Leonardo da Vinci, 72. 

 Leverrier, 190 et seq. 

 Libraries, 46, 48, 121. 

 Lincoln, 43 et seq. 

 Linnaeus, 130. 

 Lippershey, 92. 

 Lister, 213, 220, 223. 

 Locke, 116, 172, 258. 

 Logarithms, 91. 

 Logic, 21, 53. 

 Lucretius, 40. 

 Lyell, 197, 201. 



Magnetism, 75, 127. 



Magnifiers, 40. 



Malpighi, 93, 106, 109. 



Malthus, 121, 211. 



Manchester, 157. 



Marble, 139. 



Mars, 10, 91. 



Marsh gas, 126, 163, 182. 



Materia medica, 39, 51. 



Mathematics, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 15, 



17, 18, 19, 34, 48, 49, 55, 87 



et seq., 110 et seq., 184 et seq., 



264. 



Maupertuis, 145. 

 Mayow, 156. 



Measuring, 5, 10, 86 et seq. 

 Mechanics, 18, 77, 231 et seq. 

 Medicine, 6, 11, 27, 34, 126, 173 



et seq., 207, 216 et seq. 

 Mensuration, 5, 92. 

 Mental imagery, 263. 

 Mercury, 50, 51, 156. 

 Mersenne, 99, 112. 

 Metallurgy, 8, 13, 23, 50. 

 Meteorology, 122, 133, 158. 

 Microscope, 93. 

 Milky Way, 144. 

 Mill, John Stuart, 256. 

 Milton, 102, 213. 



Mineralogy, 130. 

 Minute and second, 46. 

 Monochord, 17. 

 Monte Cassino, 52. 

 Moray, 104, 112. 

 Murex, 24, 33. 



Napier, 91. 



Napoleon I, 151, 177, 214. 



Napoleon III, 221. 



Natural history, 23, 37, 52, 61. 



Navigation, 3, 16, 26, 54, 126, 



231. 



Nebular hypothesis, 147, 150. 

 Neptune, 184 et seq. 

 Neptunist, 131. 

 New Atlantis, 71, 100, 183. 

 Newton, 110, 135, 158. 

 Nicholson, 177. 

 Nietzsche, 277 et seq. 

 Nitric oxide, 156, 161. 

 Nitrous oxide, 174. 

 Novum Organum, 70, 72. 

 Numerals, 6, 11, 34, 49, 87, 



231. 



Observatories, 4, 49. 

 Occupations, 12,51, 58, 68 etseq. t 



107. 



Optics, 50, 54, 93. 

 Organic remains, 126, 140. 

 Origin of the sciences, 1 et seq. 

 Origin of Species, 201. 



Pansophy, 100. 



Pascal, 95, 117. 



Pasteur, 213 et seq. 



Pearson, Karl, 60. 



Peirce, 195. 



Pepys, 110. 



Petty, 103, 122. 



Peurbach, 55. 



Philosophical Transactions, 109. 



Philosophy, 15 et seq., 134. 



