INDEX. CXXXVll 



Mathematicians, Greco-Egyptian, p. 177 ; ancient Indian, p. 187, Note 289 ; 

 modern, p. 301. 



Maurice, Prince, of Nassau, views of tropical scenery by artists taken by him to 

 Brazil, p. 82, 83. 



Mayovv, his view of pneumatic chemistry as connected with respiration, p. 344,315. 



Mediterranean taken as a point of departure, and its geographical relations and 

 configuration described in reference to the gradual extension of the physical 

 knowledge of the universe, p. 117120, 136 ; its subdivision into three subor- 

 dinate basins, p. 117; Note 151. 



Megasthenes, correctness of many accounts given by him which were disbelieved 

 in antiquity, Note 219. 



Meghaduta or " cloud messenger," Indian poem, 39, 40. 



Meleager, vernal idyl, p. .13 ; Note 14. 



Menageries, Egyptian, under the Ptolemies, p. 171 ; Mexican, Note 429- 



Microscope, discovery of the compound, and its influence on the science of the 

 Cosmos, p. 102, 315. 



Migration of nations commencing in the East, p. 186. 



Milton, p. 62. 



Minnesingers, their allusions to natural scenery, p. 32. 



Minucius Felix, an early Christian writer, p. 26. 



Moguls, their advance to Cracow and Liegnitz, and embassies and missionaries 

 sent to them, p. 253255 ; Note 313. 



Monsoons, knowledge of, p. 169, Note 261 ; favourable to navigation and inter- 

 course between different countries, p. 121, 169, 170. 



Mosella, an ancient descriptive poem, p. 21 ; Note 35. 



Muller, Edward, on Greek poetry in reference to nature, Note 4. 



Johannes, on zoological questions, Note 239. 



Otfried, his remarks on the different feeling with which the ancients and 



the moderns regarded landscape painting, p. 77 ; his views respecting the 

 mythical geography of the ancients, Note 154. 



Naddod, his discovery of Iceland, p. 233. 



Nature, incitements to the study of, p. 3100 ; three classes distinguished i. e. 

 1. Poetic descriptions of nature, p. 673, Notes 4 105 ; 2. Landscape paint- 

 ing, p. 7491, Notes 106126; 3. Cultivation of exotic plants, 92 100; Notes 

 127140. 



Nebulae, early observations of Marius and Huygens, p. 327, 328. 



Nechos or Neku II., discussion on the reality of the circumnavigation of Africa 

 under, p. 125 ; Note 163. 



Nestorians, influence on Arabian knowledge, p. 211, 212. 



Niebelungen, few illusions to natural scenery in the Niebelungen Lied, p. 33. 



Newton, theory 'of gravitation, p. 313, 351 ; vitreous electricity, p. 341 ; optical 

 discoveries, p. 330 ; compression of Jupiter and of the Earth at the poles, 

 p. 350. 



Nominalists, influence of the school of the, in the middle ages, p. 245. 



Nonnus of Panopolis, his poetry, p. 12, 13. 



Occam, William of, p. 245. 



Oceanic discoveries, epoch of the great, p. 230300 ; Notes 361457. 

 Ophir, voyages of the ships of Solomon and Hiram to ; and its locality discussed, 

 p. 132, 133 ; Notes 179182. 



