INDEX. 



335 



Black [Chemist], Latent Heat, 230. 



Blowpipe, 182. 



Blumenbach [Anthropol.], 148. 



Boccaccio, 65, 66. 



Bode's Law, 103, 206. 



Boerhaave [Physiol.], Founder of 

 Organic Chemistry, 124, 273. 



Boiler (Tubular), 261. 



Boiling Point, 220. 



Bombardment of Particles, 258. 



Bonaventura, 44. 



Bonnet [Physiol.] held the Doctrine 

 of Progressive Evolution, 125. 



Book (The), 293. 



Boole [Math.], 196. 



Bopp [Philologist], 152. 



Botanists, Discoveries of, see Dis- 

 coveries. 



Botany, 21, 41, 44, 61, 62, 96, 113 ; 

 Definition of, Appendix AA. 



Boucher de Perthes [Anthropol.], 

 149. 



Boulton, 261. 



Boyle [Chemist], Combustion, his 

 Law, 172, 274. 



Boyle's Law, 172 ; Deviation from, 

 241. 



Brain (The), 22, 27. 



Bradley [Astron.], 203, 272. 



Bramante, 64. 



Brewster on Induction, xviii., Ap- 

 pendix V. 



Brewster as a Physicist, 210, 233. 



Bridge (Tubular), 262. 



Britain, 27. 



Broca [Anthropol.], 150. 



Brown [Physiol.], 126. 



Browning (J.) [Physicist], 210. 



Browning's Voice, 264. 



Bruno, 58, 97, 270. 



Buch (Von) [Geol.], 138, 163. 

 Buckle quoted, 293. 



Buffon [Naturalist and Biologist], 

 held the Doctrine of Organic 

 Evolution, 117, 273. 



Bunsen [Chemist and Physicist], 



241, 242, 247, 248, 282. 

 Burgess Class, 68. 

 Burnouf [Philologist], 152. 



C^ESALPINUS, his Classification, 61, 



96, 97, 269, 283. 

 Caesar, 26, 246. 

 Cailletet [Chemist and Physicist], 



234, 256. 



Calculating Apparatus, 192. 

 Calculus, Differential, 193. 



" Exponential, 194. 



of the Indivisible, 101. 



Infinitesimal, 195. 



Integral, 194 



of Probabilities, 193, 194, 

 195. 



of Variations, 194. 

 Calendar, 4 ; Julian, 26, 58, 86. 

 Calippus (Cycle of), 21. 

 Callisthenes, 6, 11. 

 Calorimeter, 226 ; Ice, 226, 242. 

 Cambrian Rocks, 164. 

 Camera Lucida, 227. 



Obscura, 57, 98, 198, 267. 

 Camper [Anat.], 118. 

 Candolle [Botanist], 115. 

 Cannon, Muskets, and Pistols, 53, 



300. 



" Canon '' of Avicenna, 38. 

 Capillary Attraction, 36. 

 Capital, 69, 299. 

 Capture of Constantinople, 91. 

 Cardan, 56. 

 Carnot [Math.], 243, 283 ; his Law, 



195 ; his Theorem, 195. 

 Cassini [Astron.], 199, 272, 282. 

 Castelli, 60, 98. 

 Catapults, 22. 

 Cathedrals, 69. 

 Cato, 17. 

 Catoptrics, Definition of, Appendix 



AA. 



Cauchy [Math.], 196. 

 Causes of Scientific Progress, xiv., 



68. 



Cavaliere, 59. 

 Cavalieri, 101. 

 Cavendish [Chemist], Hydrogen, 



Water, 174, 223. 



" Celestial Mechanics," 195, 208. 

 Cellini, 64. 

 Cellular Tissue, 62. 



