ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



of the animating principle, 541 ; on the cause of the blood's 

 coagulation, 646 ; on the unity of all animals, 757 ; his logical 

 demonstration of a Trinity, 857, note. 



ARNOTT, Dr. on attraction and repulsion as ultimate phenomena, 

 16; his definition of a menstruum, 235; his four elementary 

 truths, 277. 



ASCLEPIADES, his excellent medical axiom, 982. 



ASHMUN, on the difficulty of healing wounds in central Africa, 

 810, note. 



ASIA, mountains of, 24, 696, note ; its extent and population, 

 695, 697 ; why warmer than America in the same latitudes, 

 701, note. 



ASTHMA, mortality from in England and Wales, 785, table ; its 

 prevalence during winter, 786 ; reduction of temperature in, 

 797". 



ASTRONOMERS, on variations in the planetary inclinations, 28 ; 

 great discoveries of, 33. 



ATMOSPHERE, owes its volume and elastic force to caloric, 



ATOMS, theory of, 46; electrical polarity of, 166; Kant's theory 

 of, 172. 



ATTRACTION, of caloric for ponderable matter the cause of all other 

 attractions, 13, 17 ; regarded as an ultimate principle of action, 

 16; of cohesion, 17; capillary, theory of, 253 ; foundation of, 

 17, 200 ; aggregate force of maintains the earth in the glo- 

 bular form, 18; primary physical cause and rationale of, 110; 

 chemical, views of by Oerstedt, Prout, and Whewell, 199; 

 promoted by heat and arrested by cold, 211, 220; views of 

 Dr. Black, 212 ; of Sir H. Davy and Berzelius, 221. 



AURORA Borealis, theory of, 361. 



AXIOM of Newton, 270. 



Axis, inclination of the earth's, 27, 28 ; Laplace on, 27 ; Milton 

 on, 28, note ; motion of the sun on his, 41 ; of the planets on 

 their axes, 43. 



BAAL, an ancient Chaldean and Phoenician name of the sun, 741. 



Back, Captain, on the temperature of North America on the Great 

 Slave Lake, 350. 



BACON, Lord, his definition of heat, 3 ; contradictoiy opinions of, 

 3; on the defects of physical science, 156; on the neglect of 

 ancient wisdom, 160; his classification of matter, 160; on the 

 elder Cupid, or attraction of the atom, 162; on the contraction 

 and expansion of matter, 162; on living astronomy, 162; 

 regards heat and cold as nature's two hands, 176 ; on the 

 innate heat of different bodies, 190; on the generation and 

 transformation of bodies, 197; on the ancient Pan, 273; on 

 the heat of lightning, 318; on tornados, 338, 343; on the 



