INDEX 



231 



PAGE 



Tongue of serpent 200 



Touch, sense of, deceived 150 



Transmutation of the metals ... 79 



Ancient fables 79 



Hermes Trismegistus 80 



Treatises not allegorical .... 81 



Seven metals 82 



Metals named after planets ... 82 



Methods of cheating 83 



"Brief of the Golden Calf" ... 84 



Story of unknown Italian .... 87 



Possibility of effecting 88 



Sir William Ramsay 89 



Effect of such discovery on our 



currency system 90 



" Tribune," New York 29 



Trisection of angle 33 



Tube and balls 56 



Tube and rope 59 



Tyndall, Professor John 185 



Universal medicine. See Elixir of 

 Life. 



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Van Ceulen, Rudolph 16 



Vinegar, Hannibal's use of .... 197 



Virgil on raising bees 207 



Volcanoes not burning mountains . 190 



Wallich, Dr 35 



Walton, Isaac 178 



Watch that is wound by walking . 39 



Used as a compass 134 



Watt, James, and the steam-engine 182 



Wax, sealing 223 



Webb micrographs 142 



Whalebone not bone 224 



Whetstones why oiled 185 



Whewell's refutation of 3$ ratio . . 28 



Wilkins, Bishop ^ 48 



Witchcraft or magic 113 



Worcester, Marquis of 74 



Words, changes in 219 



Worms bred in decaying carcass . . 207 



Worms shall not eat us 204 



Wormwood 224 



Writing, fine 139 



Young, Dr. Thomas 44 



