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INDEX. 



Machine Tools, 262. 

 Maclaurin [Math.], 194. 

 Magdeburg Hemispheres, 216. 

 Magellan, 55, 269. 

 Magellanic Clouds, 210. 

 Magi of Persia, 10 (note), 20. 

 Magic Lantern, 57. 

 Magnetic Currents, 237. 



Rotation of Organic 



Substances, 188. 

 Magnetism, 98, 237. 



of Gases and other 



Substances, 257. 

 ,, Theory of, 232. 

 Magnetometer^ 196. 

 Magnets, 236, 237. 

 Magnifying Glass, 53. 

 Majolica, 53. 



Malpighi, Founder of Vegetable 

 Anatomy, 113; [Physiologist], 

 123, 272. 



Malus [Physicist], 218, 227, 230. 

 Malthus [Sociol.], 138, 155. 

 Man, Antiquity of, 116, 129, 130, 

 142,146,148, 149,167, i?o. 

 of Science the Greatest of 



Benefactors, 296. 

 Manetho, 6. 



Manipulation, Chemical, 37, 38. 

 Manometer, Barometric, 241. 

 Mantell [GeoL], Saurians, 164. 

 Marco Paolo, 52. 

 Marcus Grascus, Gunpowder, 38. 

 Marine Deposits, 164. 

 Mariotte [Physicist], 172 ; his Law, 



217, 274. 



Marloye's Harp, 227. 

 Mars, Rotation of, 199. 

 Marsh, Palaeontologist of the 

 Highest Order, 121, 136; 

 Descent of the Horse, 135. 

 Maskelyne [Physicist], Density of 



the Earth, 223. 



Masue, Comparative Anatomy, 38. 

 Material Effects of Scientific Pro- 

 gress, xvii. 

 Progress, 289. 

 Results of Science, 286, 

 289. 



Material Welfare, how Promoted, 



289-296. 



Mateucci [Physicist], 224. 

 Mathematics, 267, 271, 272, 280, 



281. 

 Definition of, Ap- 



pendix AA. 

 General Remarks 



on, 197, 198. 

 ,, and Logic, Union 



of, 196. 



,, in Physics, 100, 194. 



Power of, 198. 



Queen of Sciences, 



197. 



Subdivisions of, 197. 



Want of, in An- 



tiquity, 15. 

 Mathematicians, Discoveries of, 



see Discoveries. 

 Mathematicians of XVth and 



XVIth Centuries, 96. 

 Matter, Unity of, 256. 

 Matthew, 138, 141. 

 Maury [GeoL], Meteorology and 



Physical Geography, 167. 

 Maxwell [Physicist], 240, 244, 254. 

 Mayer [Physicist], 243. 

 Mayow [Chemist], Combustion, 172. 

 Means of Transport, 18. 

 " Mecanique Celeste," 195, 208. 

 Mechanical Energy, 195. 



Equivalent of Heat, 



243- 

 Mechanics, 61,272, 275; Definition 



of, Appendix AA. 

 Analytical, 195. 



Celestial, 195. 

 Mediaeval Contributions to Science, 



., Discoveries, 70. 

 Europe not in Profound 



Darkness, 47. 

 Inquirers, Heroism of, 



50. 



,, Inventions, 51. 

 Medicat Plants, 39. 



Treatment in Islam and 

 Christendom, 46. 



