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INDEX. 



EYE. 



Epilepsy, some unusual fits of, iv. 6*79, Leigh 



— seat and cause of, v. 73, Cole 



— remarks on the brain in cases of, vii. 199* • • • • Rhaetus 

 Epinasse, C. Le (see L'Epinasse) 



Epiploon, observations on, i. 202, Malpighi 



Epsom Salt, experiments on, vi. 662, Brown 



Equations, resolution of, in numbers, i. 338, Collins 



— construction of solid problems, iii. 376, Halley 



— on the roots of cubic and biquadratic, iii. 395, . . Same 



— method of finding the roots generally, iii. 640, .... Same 



— to extract the root of an infinite, iv. 275, .... Demoivre 



— resolution of cubic and biquadratic, v. 334, .... Colson 



— of the 3d, 5th, 7th, &c. degree, v. 342, . . Demoivre 



— extraction of numeral roots of, vi. 299* Taylor 



— with impossible roots, vii. 145, Maclaurin 



— of goniometrical lines, ix. 357, Jones 



— machine for finding the roots of, xiii. 48, .... Rowning 



— on the limits of, xiv. 382, Milner 



— extension of Cardan's rule, xiv. 453, 624, .... Maseres 



— resolution of algebraic equations, xiv. 487* .... Waring 



— first invention of Cardan's rule, xiv. 672, Maseres 



— on the roots of, xv. 86, Earl Stanhope 



— usefulness of sines and tangents in the resolution of, xv. 

 139, Wales 



— on the equal roots of equations, xv. 317* Hellins 



— properties of the sum of divisors, xvi. 497* .... Waring 



— method of corresponding values, xvi. 563, Same 



— on the roots of, xviii. 341, Wood 



— resolution of algebraic equations, xviii. 529, • • • • Wilson 

 Equation of Time, method of comput. xii. 163, Maskelyne 

 Equator, horary alteration of the Earth's from the attraction 



of the sun and moon, xi. 170, Simpson 



Equatorial Telescope, description and use of, ix. 695, Short 



— a new equatorial portable observatory, xiii. 104, Nairne 



— apparatus for correcting errors from refraction, xiv. 524, 



Dollond 



— description of his instrument, xvii, 304, .... Shuckburgh 

 Equilibrium, see Balance. 



Equinoxes, on the precession of the, x. 436, .... Silvabelle 



-~— ■ xi. 19, .... Walmsley 



• xiv. 576, .... Milner, 



xvi. 303, Vince 



Equuleus of the ancients, account of, vii. 381* .... Ward 



Eratosthenes, the sieve of, xiii. 314, Horsley 



Ergot, various observations on, and of other diseases arising 

 from the use of bad corn, xii. 209, Tissot 



— see Rye. 



Ermine, [mustela erminea] descrip. of xiii. 327* Forster 

 Eskimaux Indians, manners and disposit. of, xiii. 22, Wales 

 Essay Instrument, for specific gravities, ii. 215, .... Boyle 

 Estancel, Val., observ. of comet of 1668, atBrasil, ii. 135 

 Ether, experiments with, vii. 394, 594, Frobenius 



— collection of Frobenius's papers respecting it, viii. 536 



— method of making by distillation, xii. 491 



Etmuller, Mich., m. d., biograph. account of, iii. 209, Note 



Etna, see Mtna. 



Ettrick, Henry, machine for reduc. femoral fract. viii. 454 



Etruscan (see Coin, Inscription). 



Evaporation, to calculate the quantity of, iii. 387* . . Halley 



— observations on, iii. 658, Same 



— physical observations on, xii. 225, Franklin 



— considered as a test of dryness, xiv. 137, Dobson 



— tables of, at Liverpool for 1772 to 5, xiv. 139, • • Same 



— on the nature of, xvii. 259, De Luc 



Evatt, Rev. Sam., remark, monument in Derbyshire, xi. 632 

 Evelyn, John, biographical account of, i. 280, Note 



— representations of nature in wax, i. 37 



Evelyn, John, maps sculptured in ba9- relief, i. 3f 



— a Spanish drill plough, i. 457 



— effect of the winter of 1683 on his gardens, iii. 28 



— scheme of the human arteries and veins, iv. 680 

 Evelyn, Sir G. A. W. Shuckburgh, see Shuckburgh. 

 Euclid, way of demonstrating some propos. of, iii. 64, Ash 



Eudiometer, of a new one., xv. 355, Cavendish 



Eudiometry, see Air. 



Euler, Leonard, biographical account of, ix. 320, . . . Note 



— Russian discoveries on the N. E. coast of Asia' ibid 



— earth's gradual approach to the sun, ix. 684 



— on the contraction of the planets' orbits, x. 16 



— motion of the moon's apogee, x. 203 



— reply to the remarks of Mr. Short and Mr. Dollond on 



his theorem of the abberrations of object-glasses x. 



403, 404 

 Euler, — jun., sun's parallax from observations of the transit 



of Venus, 1769, xiii. 284 



Euphorbium, case of a lady who swallowed 2 oz. of, xi. 476, 



Willis 

 Eure, see Aqueduct. 



Euripus, irregular flux and reflux of the, i. 592, . . . Babin 



Excentricity, see Planets. 



Excise, on spirituous liquors, best method of proportioning 

 it, xvi. 675, xvii. 263, Blagden ; appendix to the re- 

 port, xvii. 272, Gilpin 



Excrescence, extirpation of, from the womb, x. 71, Burton 



Excretory ducts, discovery of two glands and ducts in hu- 

 man bodies, iv. 445, Cowper 



— discovery of, from the glandula renalis, vii. 55, Valsalva 



— remarks on Valsalva's discovery, vii. 84, Ranby 



Exhalation, a fiery and infectious, in Pembrokeshire, iii. 6lS, 



Floyd 

 Merionethshire, iii. 6l8, . . Llhyd 



Exoccetus volitans (flying fish) description of, xiv. 423, 



Brown 



Exostosis, on a boy's back, viii. 413, Freke 



Expansion, of heated metals, machine for measuring, viii. 82, 



Ellicot 



— comparison of, in different heated metals, x. 274, Same 



— tables of, and a new pyrometer, x. 482, 486, . . Smeaton 



— of fluids, experts, with two instruments, xvii.272, Gilpin 



— see Thermometer, Pyrometer. 



Explosion in the air, vii. 6*14, Lewis 



! observed at Halsted, viii. 383 . . Vievar 



Springfield, viii. 384, Shepheard 



— see Meteor. 



Eye, the eyes united in a monstrous head, i. 29, .... Boyle 



— of a blemish in a horse's eye. i. 2l6, Lower 



— diseases of the, iii. 81, Tuberville 



— on the crystalline humour of, iii. 91* Leuwenhoek 



— two cases of disordered, iii. 109, Tuberville 



— on incisions of the cornea, v. 507, Gandolphe 



— dissection of, with the cataract, vii. 45 



— observs. onrecov. of sight after 13 years, vii. 235, Cheselden 



— instruments for operations on the, vii. 237, Same ; viii. 



528, Cleland 



— an extraordinary tumour of the eye, vii. 572, .... Klein 



— a wound in the cornea cured, viii. 324, Baker 



— cure of a tumour about the, ix. 83, Hope 



— cure of a wound of the cornea and uvea, ix. 535, . . Aery 



— cureofawound occasioned by a piece of lath, ix. 566, Hassel 



— method of opening the cornea, x. 357, 414, .... Sharp 



— case of a morbid eye, x. 56*1, Spry 



— extraordinary disease of the, xi. 274, Layard 



— on the eye of the monoculus polyphemus, xv. 322, Andre 



— on the contract. & dilatation of the pupil, xvii. 403, Hosack 



