INDEX. 



Academy of Sciences, suppression of, 



by the Convention. 254 

 Accademia del Cimento, 64 

 'Acini,' the, of Malpighi, 113, 114 

 Albinus, Frederick Bernard, Professor 



of Anatomy at Leyden, 205 

 Alimentary canal, 48, 51 

 ' Animism,' Stahl the founder of, 173 

 Archasus, the, 125, 127, 128, 132, 136, 



139, 143, 167, 168 

 Artery-like vein, 13, 23, 28, 29, 33, 38, 



40, 43, 59, 96 

 Aselli, Gaspar, the discoverer of the 



lacteals, 48-51, 131, 138; 'pancreas 



of Aselli,' 50 



Bacon, Francis, Novum Organon of, 



130 

 Bassi, Laura, holds the Chair of 



Mathematics at Bologna, 212 

 Beccher, Johann Joachim, the Physica 



subterranea of, 167 ; Specimen 



Beccherianum of Sylvius, 168 

 Bell, Charles, on sensory and motor 



fibres, 299 

 Bellini, Laurentio, the Structura renum 



of, 110 ; Professor of Anatomy at 



Pisa, ib. ; physician to Cosimo III., 



Ill 

 Bentley, Bichard, establishes an 



' elaboratory ' at Trinity College, 



Cambridge, 231 

 Berengarius, Jacobus, dissection of 



corpses by, 5 ; driven from Bologna 



retires to Ferrara, ib. 



Birds, Bene de Beaumur on the diges- 

 tion of, 210 



Black, Joseph, Dissertatio de humore 

 acido a cibo orto of, 232 ; Professor 

 of Chemistry at Glasgow and 

 Edinburgh, ib. ; experiments on 

 magnesia alba, &c.,ib.; the Treatise 

 of Chemistry of, 234-236 



Bias, term used by van Helmont, 132, 

 136, 142 



Boerhaave, Hermann, birth, 200 ; 

 early years at Leyden ; Doctor of 

 Philosophy ; of Medicine ; appointed 

 to the Chair of Medicine at Leyden, 

 201 ; death, 202 ; the Institutiones 

 medicce of, 203 ; the Elements of 

 Chemistry of, 227 



Borelli, Giovanni Alphonso, birth, 62 ; 

 studies mathematics at Borne ; 

 accepts the Chair of Mathematics 

 at Messina ; goes to Florence to 

 hear Galileo ; returns to Messina ; 

 publishes his first work, an account 

 of the Pestilence in Sicily; accepts 

 the Chair of Mathematics at Pisa ; 

 a self-taught man, ib. ; friend- 

 ship with Malpighi ; becomes es- 

 tranged from him ; publication of 

 his Euclides restitutus, 64 ; De vi 

 percussionis ; at work at the De 

 motu animalium, 65 ; publishes his 

 treatise on ' The natural movements 

 depending on gravity ' ; leaves Pisa 

 and returns to Messina; goes into 

 exile at Bome ; investigates an 



