INDEX. 



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rfo'j, book of, its impressive descriptions 

 of the natural scenery of the East, 59, 60. 



John of Salisbury, 248. 



Jupiter, controversy on the discovery of 

 his satellites, and marked influence of 

 the discovery on the extension of the 

 Copernican system, 320-322. 



Kalidasa, Indian poet, 50-54 ; his Sakun- 

 tala, 50, 51, 85 ; Vikrama and Urvasi, 51, 

 53 ; The Seasons, 51, 53, 74 ; Messenger 

 of Clouds, 51, 53. 



Kepler, his eulogium on Copernicus, 307; 

 ideas on gravitation, 310 ; great discov- 

 ery of the elliptic motion of the planets 

 round the sun, 314-317 ; astronomical 

 writings, 317 ; on the papal prohibition 

 of the Copernican system, 322 ; his 

 great mental and scientiiic characteris- 

 tics, 327; on comets and fixed stars, 

 327-329 ; Brewster, Chasles, and La- 

 place on his writings and theories, 327. 



Kien-lonij, Chinese emperor, descriptive 

 poem by, 103, 104. 



KirgMs steppe, its extent and population, 

 208. 



Klaproth, his rese^ches on the Indo-Ger- 

 manic races, 186 ; letter to Hvmnboldt 

 on the invention of the compass, 254. 



Klopstock, 76. 



Lagides, the. See Ptolemies. 



Lambrecht, his " Song of Alexander," 49. 



Landscape painting. See Painting. 



Languages, their value and importance in 

 the history of the physical contempla- 

 tion of the universe, 110-112. 



Laplace on Kepler's theory of the meas- 

 urement of casks, 327 ; on the zodiacal 

 light, 329. 



Las Casas, Bartholomew de, 261, 262, 299- 

 301. 



Lassen, author's correspondence with, on 

 the ariena of Pliny, 159; on the black 

 Asiatic races, 165 ; on tlie incense of 

 Arabia, 204, 205. 



Leibnitz, character of his Protogoea, 349, 

 350. 



Le^, his discovery of America, 230, 231, 

 234. 



[-epsius, his chronological data for Egypt, 

 115, 124 ; on the monuments of the dis- 

 tant expeditions of Rameses Miamoun, 

 125 ; on the Semitic written characters, 

 129. 



Letronne on the Greek zodiac, 167; on 

 the canal of the Red Sea, 173 ; on the 

 epoch of Diophantus, 183 ; on tlae early 

 discoveries of the Irish, 235. 



Liegnitz, Mongolian battle at, 202, 249. 



t^ieu-tscheu, ancient Chinese writer, on 

 the pleasure felt in the possession of 

 gardens, 103. 



Light, gradual discovery of its phenome- 

 na, 332. 333. 



Lippershey, Hans, his claims to the dis' 

 covery of the telescope discussed, 317- 

 319. 



Lister, early researches by, Tn palaeontol^ 

 ogy, 348, 349. 



Ivivy, writings of, 35. 



Log, use of in navigation, and date of its 



introduction, 256-258. 

 Longinus, 166. 

 Longus, his pastoral romance "Daphnis 



et Chloe," 28. 

 Lonnrot, Elias, collection of Finnish 



songs, 56. 

 Lucan, vivid description of nature in his 



works, 34. 

 Lucius the younger, his didactic poem of 



iEtna, 34. 

 Lucretius, his great poem "De Natura," 



30, 31 69. 

 Ludius, ancient Roman painter, 84. 

 Luis, Fray de Leon, description of night, 



72. 

 Lully, Raymond, scientific acquirements 



of, 254, 255. 

 Lusiad of Camoens, its truth to nature, 



68-71. 



Macedo, J. J. da Costa de, work on the 

 discovery of the Canaries. 135. 



Macedonians, influence of their cam- 

 paigns imder Alexander the (Treat, 153, 

 192. 



Macpherson's Ossian, 48. 



Madeira, supposed notice of iu Plutarch, 

 134. 



Madoc, western voyage of, 235, 236. 



Magellan, navigation and discoveries of. 

 in the Pacific, 269, 270. 



^lagellanic clouds, first notices of, 286- 

 288. 



Magnetism, observations and discoveries 

 in the Middle Ages — of Columbus, 277- 

 279; Cabot, 279, 280; Gassendi, 280; 

 Robert Norman, 281, 335 ; modern re- 

 searches — William Gilbert's, 334 ; Ara 

 go, 334 ; Faraday, 334, 33(5 ; Edmund 

 Halley, 3.35 ; Frederic Gauss, 337 ; Ant- 

 arctfc expeditions, 335, 336. 



Mahabharata, Indian heroic poem, 50, 52, 

 147, 156. 



Mains, discovery of polarization by, 332, 

 343. 



Maude ville, John, his travel?, 78 ; their 

 characteristics, 251. 



Manetho, Egyptian dynasty of, 124. 



Marco Polo, his travels and admirable 

 narrative, 250, 251 ; early editions of", 

 and whether known to Columbus, 251. 



Marinus Sanuto, writings of, 252. 



Marinus of T3're, his isthmus hypothesis, 

 127, 266 ; myth on the Indian Ocean, 

 193; on the 'breadth of the Old Conti- 

 nent, 268. 



Marius, Simon, on the invention of the 

 telescope, 318; discovered the moona 

 of Jupiter simultaneously with Galileo, 

 320, 321; nebula in Andromeda, .'331. 



Martel, Charles, on the I'esults of liis vic- 

 tory over the Moslems at Tours, 2<)2. 



Masudi, Arabian historinn, account of the 

 remains of a ship of the Red Sea, 127. 



Materia Medica, Hindoo and Arabic 

 knowledge of, 211. 



Mathematicians, Grecian, 164, 176-179 ; 

 Babylonian, 167 ; Indian, 168, 224, 223 



