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INDEX. 



tions, 76; Criticism of Aristotle 

 and " Offendicula," 77 ; on Ex- 

 periment, 78 ; Founder of the Ex- 

 perimental School, 78, 89 ; Ency- 

 clopaedic Mind, 79 ; a Mathema- 

 tician, 81, 82 ; a Chemist, 82 ; a 

 Physicist, 83 ; an Astronomer, 

 86 ; his Reform of the Calendar, 

 86; attacks the Ptolemaic System, 

 88 ; his Confidence in Science, 89; 

 a Pupil and " Continuator" of the 

 Arabs, 90 ; one of the Five Great 

 Men of Ten Centuries, 90. 



Bacon, R. v. Bacon, F., x., xiv., 74. 



Baer (Von) [Biol.], Founder of Em- 

 bryology, 132, 138. 



Bagdad, 29. 



Baily [Physicist], 223. 



Bain [Physicist], 240. 



Balance, 62, 223, 267 ; Torsion, 174. 



Balfour Stewart, 244. 



Balloons, 233. 



Banks, 299 (note). 



Barbarossa, 65. 



Barology, 102, 272 ; Definition of, 

 Appendix AA. 



Barometer, 215, 218, 267. 



Barometric Manometer, 241. 



Basalt, 161. 



Bates [Biol.], 144. 



Battery, 225; Electric, 267; Gas, 

 242 ; Voltaic, 227 ; Thermo- 

 electric, 236. 



Battle of Humanity against In- 

 justice won by Benefactors, 308. 



Bayonet, 300. 



Beaumont (Elie de) [Geol.], 167. 



Beccaria [Sociol.], 155. 



Becquerel [Physicist], 246. 



Bede, 48 (note). 



Bell (Graham), 264. 



Belon, 61. 



Ben Corrah, The Year, Anatomy of 

 Birds, 34. 



Ben Ezra, Travels, Practical Medi- 

 cine, 40. 



Benefactors, Great Social, 307. 



Benefits (Material) from Electri- 

 city, 294. 



Benefits (Material) from Hand, 

 Water, Wind, and Flour Mill, 

 291, 292. 



Benefits (Material) from Industries, 



293- 



Benefits (Material) from Meteo- 

 rology, 294. 



Benefits (Material) from Physical 

 Geography, 294. 



Benefits (Material) from Pure 

 Science, 293, 294. 



Benefits (Material) from Steam, 294. 



Benefits (Moral) from Political 

 Economy, 299; from 'Science 

 generally, 300-309. 



Ben Musa, Algebra, Indian Nume- 

 rals, 33. 



Berenger, 48. 



Bergmann [Chemist], Crystallo- 

 graphy, Theory of Chemical Af- 

 finities, 176, 248. 



Bernard [Physiol.], 127. 



Bernouilli (Daniel) [Math.] 194, 



255. 



(James) 193. 

 (John) 194,227. 



Berosus, 21. 



Bertholinus [Physicist], 217 (note). 



Berthollet [Chemist], Laws of Mix- 

 ture, 178. 



Berzelius [Chemist], Blowpipe, De- 

 termination of Atomic Weights, 

 182,248,283. 



Bessel, 245. 



Bessemer, 262, 263, 283, 285. 



Bessemer Steel, 263. 



Beverley (John of), 48 (note). 



Bill of Exchange, 299 (note). 



Binary Stars, 204, 209. 



Biological Group, 113; Remarks 

 on, 158. 



Biologists, Discoveries of, see Dis- 

 coveries. 



Biology, 60, 127, 273, 276, 210, 



281. 

 Definition of, Appendix 



AA. 

 General Remarks on, 158. 



Biot [Physicist], his Law, 230. 



