KEY AND INDEX 



Conservation of Energy, The, 

 Chapter VIII, 3, 253. 



Constantinople, effect of its 

 capture by the Turks upon 

 contemporary learning, 2, 

 42. 



Cook, gave great attention to 

 the needle telegraph, 8, 25. 



Cook, Dr. Frederick A., his 

 claims to discovery of the 

 pole, 7, 49; controversy with 

 Peary, 7, 49; his records ad- 

 judged inadequate, 7, 49. 



Cook, Captain James, his as- 

 tronomer discovers that the 

 ship influences the compass, 

 7, 10. 



Cooper, W., improved the col- 

 lodion-emulsion process, 8, 

 232. 



Cope, Professor, traced the an- 

 cestry of the camel, 3, 113. 



Copernicus to Kepler and Gali- 

 leoThe New Cosmology, 

 Chapter IV, 2, 52. 



Copernicus, Nicholas, famous 

 astronomer, 2, 54; his system, 

 2, 56; introduction to his 

 book, 2,57; "On the Order of 

 the Spheres," 2, 60; argu- 

 ment from parallax urged 

 against him, 2, 63; advocates 

 of his theory, ibid. 



Copper- and Steel-Plate En- 

 gravings, 8, 192. 



Cordite, use of, for producing 

 high temperatures, 6,315; Sir 

 Andrew Noble and Sir F. 

 Abel's experiments with, 6, 

 315; possibility of using it for 

 making artificial diamonds, 



6 .3iS- 



Corns, an early experimenter of 

 the sewing-machine, whose 

 efforts were unknown to 

 Howe, 9, 94. 



Cortez, Hernando, found cotton 

 growing indigenously in Mex- 

 ico and Peru, 9, 7. 



Corti, Bonaventura, observed 

 motion of the cell contents, 4, 

 124. 



Coryisart, Jean Nicolas de, phy- 

 sician to the First Consul, 4, 



199; lays the foundation of 

 physical diagnosis, 4, 200. 



Cosmology, The New Coper- 

 nicus to Kepler and Galileo, 

 Chapter IV, 2, 52. 



Costumes, effect of climate upon, 

 9, 59; military methods and 

 fashion responsible for, 9, 60; 

 some curious fashions ex- 

 plained, 9, 61; effects of the 

 plagues upon fashions, 9, 62; 

 the age of wigs, 9, 63 ; the age 

 of the "ruff," 9, 65; knitted 

 garments, 9, 68; some re- 

 markable costumes, 9, 69; 

 fashion versus comfort, 9, 74; 

 the return to the common- 

 sense age in clothing, 9, 76; 

 the wholesale manufacture of 

 clothing, 9, 78; pioneer me- 

 thods of George Opdyke, 9, 

 78; the "task system" in- 

 troduced, 9, 80; the "Bos- 

 ton" or factory system, 9, 81 ; 

 steam and electricity in fac- 

 tories, 9, 83. 



Cotton, fabrics of, probably first 

 introduced into the West 

 from India, 9, 5; wonderful 

 dexterity of Hindus in weav- 

 ing, 9, 6; laws passed in 

 Great Britain to prevent im- 

 portation of, 9, 6; India as 

 the sower of, 9, 6; Western 

 Hemisphere as source of sup- 

 ply, 9, 8; value of the crop 

 raised in the two Americas, 

 9, 8; preparing for ship- 

 ment, 9, 12; varieties of, 

 9, 13; various machines for 

 opening the bales and pre- 



rring the fibres for spinning, 

 14; carding-machine in- 

 vented by James Hargreaves, 

 9, 16. 



Cotton-Gin, invented by Eli 

 Whitney, 9, 8; circumstances 

 leading to the invention of, 9, 

 ip; mechanism of Whitney's 

 gin, 9. ii. 



Count de la Vaux, his record 

 flight in a balloon, 7, 256. 



Cowper, E. A., introduced the 

 suspension wheel as an im- 



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