INDEX. CXXXV 



Indian poetic literature in reference to nature, p. 31, 3742 ; Notes 5862. Indian 

 use of position in determining the valueof numbers, p. 115, 227 ; Note 359. Early 

 commercial intercourse with India, and Indian names of the articles of com- 

 merce which Solomon obtained from Ophir, p. 133; Notes 179, 181, 182, 264. 

 Early Indian settlers on the east coast of Africa, p. 134. Indian mathema- 

 ticians, p. 187; Note 289. Indian Algebra, p. 225227; Notes 355, 359. 

 Indian planetary tables, p. 223 ; Note 350. Indian knowledge of the materia 

 medica and chemistry, p. 214, 220 ; Notes 328, 340, 341, 3i7. Ancient Indian 

 geography, Note 253. 



Indies, indefiniteness of the term, Note 243. 



Infinitesimal calculus, p. 302, 323, 351 ; Note 495 



Job, descriptions of nature in the book of, p. 46, 47. 



Jones (Sir William), remarks on Indian poetry, Note 15, Translation of Sacon 

 tala, Note 60. 



Ionic school of philosophy, p. 105. 



lonians, their mental character, p. 138. 



Isabella (Queen) requests Columbus to collect specimens of natural hi story, p. 276 

 Her letter to Columbus, Note 454. 



Italian poetry and literature in reference to nature, p. 50, 51, 56. 



Tupiter, discovery of the satellites of, p. 316318. Controversy respecting the 

 discovery, Note 484. Galileo's proposal to determine the longitude at sea 

 by the occultations of the satellites of, Note 488. Ellipticity of, 350. 



Kalidasa (the Indian poet), p. 39, 40, 62; Notes 60 and 62. 



Kepler, his praise of Copernicus, p. 306. His discovery of the laws which bear his 

 name, p. 310, 311, 313, 317 ; Note 477, 499. This discovery not appreciated by 

 his cotemporaries, p. 324, 325. His work on the planet Mars, and his Har- 

 monices Mundi, p. 308, 314 ; Note 499. Spirited passage from the last-named 

 work, p. 317. His life, sufferings, and biography, by Freiherr von Breit- 

 schert, Note 477. His optical investigations, p. 314 ; Note 481. His Stereo- 

 metria doliorum, p. 323 ; Note 495. His mental character and speculations 

 p. 311, 323, 324 ; Note 496. 



Kien-long, poem of the Chinese Emperor, p. 97, 98. 



Klaproth, his valuable researches, and those of Abel Remusat, which have made 

 known to us the races who, in the east of Asia, gave the first impulse to the wave 

 of the great migration of nations which at last broke over Europe, p. 186 

 Note 287. 



Landscape painting, p. 7491, 93, 94 ; among the Greeks and Romans, p. 7477 ; 

 Notes, 107114. From the time of Constantine to the Van Eycks only found 

 in marginal ornaments of manuscripts, p. 78 ; Note 116. The Van Eycks, p. 

 78,79. Early Italian and German painters,p. 79; Notes 118, 122. Giorgione, 

 Titian, A. Caracci, Domenichino, Claude Lorraine, Ruysdael, Caspar and 

 Nicolas Poussin, Everdingen, Hobbima, Cuyp, and Rubens, p. 79 SI, 

 86,87; Note 121. New field opened to, by the great geographical dis- 

 coveries of the 16th century, p. 82. Views of tropical scenery taken on 

 the spot by Franz Post and by Eckhout, p. 82, 83 ; Note 124. By some later 

 artists named, p. 83. Future more numerous and grander examples antici- 

 pated, p. 8389. Characteristic aspect of different zones and countries may 

 be conveyed by, 8890. 



Landscape gardening, p. 95. Rules for itrecommended by a Chinese writer, p. 97. 



