INDEX. 



789 



Munro, ' Lucretius,' ii. 4. 



Miinsterberg, Dr Hugo, psycho-physics, 

 ii. 518 ; experiments, 521. 



Murdoch, W., not member of any uni- 

 versity, i. 239. 



' Musenalmanach ' of Schiller and 

 Goethe, i. 84. 



Museum d'Histoire naturelle, i. 112. 



Nageli, C. von, co-editor with Schleiden 

 of 'Zeitschrift fiir wissenschaftliche 

 Botanik,' i. 195 ; mechanical theory 

 of organic structures, ii. 224 ; per- 

 fection of micrometric processes, 229 ; 

 271 ; inductive school of, 321 ; 351 ; 

 ' Micellar Theory,' 425, 427, 611 ; 

 Weismann on, 435 ; process of intus- 

 susception, 443; " idioplasma, " 448 ; 

 613. 



Nansen, Fridjof, arctic exploration, ii. 

 207 ; quoted on the ubiquity of 

 organic germs, 453. 



Napier, John, logarithms, i. 94, 269 ; 

 272, 282. 



Napoleon I. , relation to science, i. 42 ; 

 offered prize for discovery of a process 

 of manufacturing carbonate of soda, 

 92 ; 107 ; his influence on science, 

 149 ; quoted from Thibaudeau, 150 ; 

 founded Universite Imperiale, 151 ; 

 favoured mathematical sciences, ib. ; 

 152 ; his scientific glory derivative, 

 154 ; statistical methods employed by, 

 153 ; 206 ; animal magnetism, ii. 476. 



Napoleon III., scientific reports, i. 42. 



Narbonne, i. 151. 



Nasse, Chr. Fried., physiological 

 method in medicine, ii. 388. 



Nations, work of the three, compared, i. 

 298 ; disappearance of national differ- 

 ences, 305. 



Natural history, first public course in 

 Paris, i. 143. 



Naturalistic school in France, i. 75. 



Nature, history of, how to be under- 

 stood, i. 2 ; philosophy of, 204 ; 

 philosophy of, and medical science, 

 209 ; English love of, 284 ; statistical 

 view of, 438 ; kinetic view of, ii. 1 et 

 seq. ; physical view of, 95 et seq. ; mys- 

 tery of the actual processes of, 366. 



Naturphilosophie of Schelling and Hegel, 

 i. 178, 207; ii. 315. 



Naumann, C. F., " morphology of the 

 surface of the earth," ii. 212. 



Navier, mecanique moleculaire, i. 359 ; 

 360, 379 ; theory of elasticity, ii. 31, 

 41 ; properties of the ether, 33 ; syn- 

 thetic method, 100. 



Nees von Esenbeck, ii. 265. 



Neptune, discovery of, i. 277. 



Neptunists and Plutonists, i. 283, 290. 



Nernst, 'Theoretical Chemistry,' i. 448, 

 ii. 186. 



Neumann, Carl, development of astron- 

 omical view of nature, i. 366 ; quoted 

 on provisional character of electrical 

 formulae, 375 ; ' Die Principien der 

 Electrodynamik,' 376 ; ii. 186 ; on 

 potential, 698 ; and Dirichlet's prin- 

 ciple, 708. 



Neumann, Franz, the elder, mathe- 

 matical physics, i. 44 ; 199 ; experi- 

 ments in chemistry of, 429 ; proper- 

 ties of ether, ii. 31 ; analytical method 

 of, 45 ; " elastic " theory of ether, 

 54 ; influences Helmholtz, 150 ; 

 theory of electro-dynamic phenom- 

 ena, 151 ; 193. 



Neumann, Kaspar, statistical tables of, 

 ii. 565. 



Newlands, periodic law of, i. 422, 423. 



Newport, his discovery, ii. 227. 



Newton, value of work of, i. 93 ; cor- 

 rected the thought of Bacon, 95 ; his 

 work completed and amplified by 

 Laplace, 97 ; mathematical reason- 

 ings of, substantiated, 99 ; invention 

 of "fluxions," 100; influence on the 

 popular mind inappreciable, 105; 118, 

 119, 123 ; contrasted with Cuvier, 132 ; 

 137 ; Cuvier on the gravitation theory 

 of, 146 ; Gauss's appreciation of, 181 ; 

 discoveries of, frequently forestalled 

 by others, 184 ; < Principia,' 188, 189, 

 227, ii. 6 ; pre-eminent as an exact 

 thinker, i. 222 ; indebtedness of 

 French science to, 226 ; notation of, 

 233 ; and Young, 244, ii. 9 ; Flam- 

 steed's observations, i. 250 ; 267, 279, 

 282, 311; "energy," 312; 317; 

 astronomical instruments, 322 ; 323, 

 325 ; lunar theory, 329 ; 332 ; mathe- 

 matical expression of astronomy, 

 333; matter and force, 334; "de- 

 scription and explanation " of phen- 

 omena, 337; gravity not "essential 

 and inherent," 340 ; mechanical 

 explanation of gravitation, 342 ; 

 emanation hypothesis of light, 

 344 ; actio in dislans, 345 ; gravita- 

 tion, 351, 353 ; molecular attrac- 

 tion, 354 ; Horsley's edition of 

 his works. 355 ; correspondence 

 with Cotes on molecular attraction, 

 ib. ; Hauksbee's experiments, 356 ; 

 358 ; St Venant on, and Boscovich, 

 359 ; idea of mass, 362 ; 370, 372, 



