INDEX 



ABELARD, 83. 



Ability, distribution of, 151. 



Academia Secretorum Naturae, 127. 



Academic des Sciences, 128. 



Academies, scientific, 127. 



Accademia del Cimento, 127. 



Adam, legend of, 26. 



ADAMS, JOHN COUCH, 162. 



.<ESCHYI us, 34. 



^Ether, theory of, 131, 171, 174, 



184, 241 et seq. 

 Age of man, 203. 

 Agriculture, 22, 23. 

 Ague, 199. 

 ALBERTI, 108. 

 ALBERTUS MAGNUS, 87. 

 ALCUIN, 71, 149. 

 Alexandria, 56, 57, 79. 

 ALFRED THE GREAT, 71. 

 Almagest, The, 56. 

 Alpine race, see tinder Race. 

 America, discovery of, 104. 

 AMERIGO VESPUCCI, 108. 

 AMMON, 230. 

 Anaesthetics, 200. 

 Anatomy, 53, 1 1 2, 133. 

 ANAXAGORAS, 35. 

 ANAXIMENES, 39. 

 ANSELM, 83. 



Antarctic exploration, 194. 

 Anthropology, 222 et seq. 

 ANTONIO DELLA TORRE, 109. 

 Apothecaries, Society of, 138. 

 AQUINAS, THOMAS, 87 et seq., 125, 



145, 146. 

 Arabia, 78. 



Arabian science, 77 et seq. 

 ARCHIMEDES, 38, 51, 109. 

 Arian Church, 61, 67, 79. 

 ARISTARCHUS, 40, 47. 

 ARISTOPHANES, 35. 

 ARISTOTLE, 40, 45 et seq., 62. 80, 



82, 85, 86, 88, 116, 204, 217, 



251. 



ARNOLD, MATTHEW, 143. 

 Asceticism, 63. 

 Asgard, 74. 



Association, mental, 256. 

 Assyria, 25. 



Astrology, 23, 28, 63, 127. 

 Astronomy, 4, 22, 28, 40, 56, 77, 



89, in, 117, 126, 127, 161, 



162, 175. 

 Athens, 38, 69. 

 Atomic weights, 170 et seq. 

 Atomists, the Greek, 43, 204, 217, 



240, 283. 



Atoms, theory of, 43, 53, 1 68, 240. 

 AUGUSTINE, 64. 

 Authority, 151. 

 Autonomy of life, 277. 

 AVEBURY, LORD, 213, 215. 

 AVERRHOES, 80, 89. 

 AVICENNA, 78, 132. 

 AVOGADRO, AMERICO, 8, 170. 



Babylonia, 4, 223. 



BACON, FRANCIS, LORD, 91, 120 



et seq., 205, 221. 

 BACON, FRIAR ROGER, 80, 85, 90 



et seq. 



Bacteria, see Microbes. 

 Baghdad, 77, 78. 

 BALFOUR, ARTHUR}., 221, 277. 

 BATESON, WILLIAM, 246. 

 BEACONSFIELD, LORD, 225, 259. 

 " Beagle," Voyage of the, 193, 210. 

 BECQUEREL, HENRI, 238. 

 BEDE, THE VENERABLE, 71. 

 BELLARMINE, CARDINAL, 114. 

 Benedictine Order, 70. 

 BERENGARIUS OF TOURS, 83. 

 BERGSON, HENRI, 277, 279. 

 BERKELEY, BISHOP, 270. 

 Bestiary, The, 66. 

 BIFFEN, R., 248. 

 Biology, 53, 188, 277. 

 Birth-rate, 229, 280. 

 Black Death, the, 99. 

 BLACK, DR JOSEPH, 165, 167. 

 BOETIUS, 68, 71, 82. 

 Bologna, University of, 81. 

 BORCH, 164. 

 Botanic gardens, 137 



