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and moisture, p. 335-339 ; Notes 515, 524527. Investigations connected 

 with its chemical composition, p. 342 346; Notes 530, 531. 

 Ausonius, poem on the Moselle, p. 21. 



Bacon (Roger), p. 30, 243, 248, 249; Notes 382384. 



(Francis), p. 313. Did not receive the Copernican system, p. 337. His 



Historia naturalis et experimentalis de ventis, p. 337, 338. 

 Bactrian empire, its influence, p. 150. 



Balboa, his first sight of the Pacific Ocean or South Sea, p. 270 ; Note 422. 

 Barometer, its invention ; first used for determining heights ; its value both as 



a hypsometric and meteorological instrument, p. 337. 

 Basil the Great ; beautiful description of the scenery surrounding his hermitage, 



p. 2628 ; Notes 46, 47. Descriptions of nature in his Homilies, p. 28 ; 



Note 48. 

 Bauer (Ferdinand), drawings of scenery and vegetation in New Holland and Van 



Diemen Island, p. 83. 



Behaim (Martin), directed to make solar tables, p. 259, 294. 

 Bembo (Cardinal), his Etna Dialogus, p. 21, 52. His Historicae Venetae, p. 52. 

 Botanic gardens, of the Romans, p. 194. Of the Arabs in Spain, p. 219 ; Note 344. 



Of the Mexicans, p. 276 ; Note 429. First European, p. 82. Early established 



in India by Alfonso de Sousa, p. 277. 

 Botany of the Arabians, p. 218, 219. 

 Bradley's discoveries, p. 318, 330. 

 Brahe, see Tycho. 

 Bucolic poetry, see Idyl. 

 Bttffon, descriptions of nature, p. 64. 



Cabot (Sebastian), his voyages and discoveries, p. 266, 267 ; Note 414. Proposed the 



magnetic declination as a means of finding the longitude, p. 282 ; Note 433. 

 Caesalpinus, p. 277. 

 Calderon, his poetry considered in reference to descriptions of naturr.l scenery, 



p. 60, 61. 



Callimachus, description of Delos, Note 12. 



Callisthenes of Olynthus, a disciple of Aristotle, accompanied Alexander's expe- 

 ditions, p. 159. 

 Camoens, his natural descriptions in the Lusiad, and those of the various states 



of the ocean especially extolled, p. 5759 ; Notes 8895. 

 Campani, his object-glasses with which Cassini discovered four of the satellites 



of Saturn, p. 325. 



Canal joining the Red Sea and the Nile, p. 170. 



Canaries, discovery and early knowledge of the, p. 129132 ; Notes 175 and 176. 

 Cardanus, his " physical problems," Note 409. Experiments on the increase of 



weight in metals during oxidation, p. 343, 344. 

 Carthage, its position near the limits of the Tyrrhenian and Syrtic basins, p. 118. 



Inferior to the Grecian colonies in intellectual and artistic cultivation, p. 143. 

 Caspian, its character as an inland sea first recognised by Herodotus,and afterwards 



lost sight of or denied until the time of Ptolemy, p. 141, 191, 192 ; Note 200. 

 Cassini (Dominic), discovered four of the satellites of Saturn, p. 325. Recognised 



the true relations in space of the zodiacal light, p. 326. 



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