INDEX 



Abacus, 31, 41, 147, 155, 184 

 Academies, 269, 301 

 Accademia dei Lincei, 229, 269 

 Acceleration, 246, 326 

 Adams, 341 

 Agassiz, 373, 385 

 Agricola, 226 

 Agriculture, 167, 447 

 Ahmes Papyrus, 30 

 Air-pump, 257, 267 

 Albertus Magnus, 177, 179 

 ^-Alchemy, 166, 170, 181, 187, 226, 260 

 Alcmseon, 56, 63 

 Alcuin, 153 

 Alexandria, 87 

 Algebra, 100, 133, 156, 162, 179, 232, 240, 



277, 327 

 Al Hazen, 163 

 Alkarismi, 162 

 Almagest, 127, 193 

 Ampere, 354, 363 

 Anaesthesia, 444 

 Aniline, 446 



Analytic Geometry, 110, 273, 277, 282 

 Analytic Method, 71 

 Anatomy, 113, 226, 319, 373, 390 

 Anaxagoras, 60 

 Anaximander, 47 

 Anaximenes, 48 

 Animatism, 5 

 Animism, 5 

 Anthropology, 3 

 Antiphon, 67 

 Antipodes, 150, 180 

 Antiquity of Man, 1, 387, 390 

 Antiseptic Surgery, 379 

 Apollonius, 108-112, 115, 241, 303 

 Arabic Numerals, 159, ,161, 176, 182, 184 

 Arabic Science, 156, 160-171, 176 

 Archimedes, 95-107, 111, 112, 115 

 Architecture, Roman, 142, 143 

 Archytas, 75, 105 

 Aristarchus, 116 

 Aristillus, 119 

 Aristotle, 37, 45, 48, 55, 66, 74, 79-84, 



156, 172, 177, 265 

 Arithmetic, Babylonian, 26 



Greek, 40, 50, 125 



Roman, 147 



Arkwright, 441 



Arrhenius, 365 



Art, Geometry in, 230, 234 



Arts, Seven Liberal, 148, 174 



Aryabhata, 157, 160 



Assyria (see Babylonia) 



Astrolabe, 127, 129 



Astrology, 23, 132, 181, 204, 210, 253 



Astronomy, Babylonian, 27 



primitive, 21 



Atmosphere, 256, 260, 307, 315 

 Atomism, 61, 348, 361 

 Attraction, 293, 348 

 Augustine, St., 150 

 Avogadro, 362 



Babylonia, 2, 7-11, 26-29, 36, 43, 139 



Bacon, Francis, 81, 203, 270, 312 



Bacon, Roger, 177, 180, 400 



Bacteriology, 380 



Baer, von, 375, 393 



Balance, 258, 308 



Barometer, 256, 267, 302 



Barrow, 289 



Becher, 262 



Bell, 445 



Bergmann, 305 



Berkeley, 298 



Bernard, 376 



Bernoulli, 326 



Bessel, 344 



Bessemer, 446 



Bhaskara, 158 



Biogenesis, 381 



Biology, 315, 371, 392 



Black, 305, 312 



Black Death, 185 



Blood, Circulation of, 255, 412 



Boerhaave, 263 



Boethius, 148, 153, 182 



Bonnet, 320, 372 



Botany, 315, 317, 371, 374 



Boyle, 258, 260-262, 334 



Brahmagupta, 157, 160, 162 



Briggs, 244 



Brown, 393 



Brunelleschi, 234 



Bruno, 254 



Bryson, 67 



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