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Newton, Sir Isaac, exper. on light, and theory of, i. 678 



— invention of a catadioptric telescope, i. 691, 6*95, 703 



— apertures, lengths, &c. for telescopes, i. 704 



— answer to, objections to his telescope, i. 705 



— on a reflecting telescope by M. Cassegrain, i. 71 1 



— trial of experts, proposed, for his theory of light, i. 714 



— on Pardies' animadversions on his theory, i. 730 



— queries for experts, on his theory of light, i. 734 



— reply to a 2d letter of Pardies, i. 740 



— answer to Hook, on his theory, ii. 13 



— reply to a letter from Paris on his theory, ii. 86, 91 



— reply to remarks by Linus on his theory* ii- 26 1, 263 



— particular answer to Linus, ii. 276 



— on Lucas's exceptions against bis theory, ii. 338 



— solution of two problems of Bernoulli, iv. 129 



— his low pecuniary circumstances, iv. 641, Note 



— account of the invention of fluxions, vi. 1 16 



— problem concerning curves, vi. 211 



— account of his Chronological Index, vii. 89 



— defence of his Chronological Index, vii. 172, 191, Halley 



— a reflecting instrument for taking the moon's distance 



from the stars at sea, viii. 590 

 Newton's binomial theorem, demonstrated, viii.571,Castilion 



■ - - — — x. 127,. . Simpson 



■ xviii.33, . . Sewell 



Niagara river, account of the falls of, vi. 574, .... Dudley 

 Nicholls, Frank, it. d., biograph. account of, vii. 231, Note 



— on a natural history of mines, vii. 224, 248 



— nature and cause of aneurisms, vii. 231 



— on the effect of the lungs upon blood, vii. 3^1 



— dissection of an hermaphrodite lobster, vii. 398 



— on the veins, &c. of leaves, vii. 419 



— a polypus coughed up by an asthmatic person, vii. 481 



— of worms in animal bodies, x. 6l6 



— observations on dissecting the body of George II. xi. 574 

 Nicholson, Mr., a remarkable storm of lightning, xiii. 538 

 Nicholson, D., on the scurvy-grass of Greenland, viii. 391 

 Nicholson, Wm., Runic inscriptions, iii. 254- 



— arrangement of logarith. lines on instruments, xvi. 262 



— an electrical machine without friction, xvi. 505 



— experiments and observations on electricity, xvi. 599 



— Nicolini, Marquis, of Buffon's burning mirror, ix. 344 

 Nierop, D. R. Van, voyage to discover a m. e. passage to 



India, ii 171 



Nightmare, cause and cure of, iv. 498, Chirac 



Nile, cause of the overflowing of, i. 85, Note 



Nitre, & nitro-aerial spirit, [oxygen] nature of, ii. 145, Mayo 



— and natron, account of, iii. 50, Leigh 



— remarks on the nitre of Egypt, iii. 108, Lister 



— phlogistication of the spirit of, xvi. 557, Priestley 



— of its action on gold and platina, xviii. 139, • - . Tennant 



Nitrian water, experiments on, ii. 50, Leigh 



Nitrous acid, on the production of, xvi. 6"06, Milner 



Nitrous air, early discovery of nitrous gas, ii. 241 



— on the production of, xvi. 606, Milner 



Nixon, John, antiquities found at Herculaneum, xi. 85 



— description of the temple of Serapis, at Pozzuoli, xi. 106 



— antiquity of glass in windows, xi. 233, 539 



— remarks on some antiquities in Italy, xi. 473 



Nolana prostrata, description of, xi. 708, Ehret 



Noli Me Tangere (disease,) see Cancer. 



Nollet, J. Anthony, biographical notice of, viii. 223, Note 



— experiments on ice, ibid. 



— effects of electricity on animal and veget. bodies, ix. 473 



— electrical experiments in Italy, x 20 



— account of the Grotta de Cani, x. 1 37 



— to extract electricity from the clouds, x. 295 



Nooth, J. M., m. v., improv. in the elect, machine, xiii. 456 



Nooth, J. M., m.d., to impregnate water with fixed air, 



xiii. 487 

 Norfolk, strata of the cliffs on the coast of, ix. 272, Arderon 

 — ■ subterraneous caves in the chalk-hills of, ix. 490, Same 

 Norris, Henry, of English weight and measure prior to 



Henry Vllth. xiii. 582 

 North-east passage, voyage to discover a, ii. 17 1, . . Nierop 



— history of several attempts to discover, ii. 233 

 Norwood, Richard, biographical notice of, i. 206, .... Note 



— of the tides, water, & whale-fishing, at Bermudas, i. 206 



— his admeasurement of a degree on the meridian defended, 



xi. 593, Raper ; reply by M. De Lalande, xi. 594 

 Norwood, Rich., Jun., observ. at Jamaica, viz. on alligators, 



tortoises, chegoes, shining flies, manchenille apple, i. 295 

 Nose, anatom. observ. on the structure of, ii. 432, Verney 

 Nourse, Edward, case of hydrophobia, viii. 113 



— stones in the coats of the bladder, viii. 545 

 Nourse, Charles, cure of wounded intestines, xiv. 63 

 Nova Zembla, description of, not an island, ii. 124 

 Nuck, Anthony, biographical account of, iii. 242, . . . Note 



— on a new salivary duct, &c. iii. 241 



Nutmegs, of the growth of, ii. 356, Tavernier 



— microscopical observations on, iii. 591,. . . . Leuwenhoek 

 Nux vomica (ignatia amara) medicinal virtues of, iv. 356, 



Johannes 



— further particulars of the same, ibid, Camelli 



Nyctanthes elongata, description of, xiii. 147, Bergius 



Nyl-ghau, [white footed antelope,] description of, xiii. 117 



Hunter 



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Oak-trees, of dwarf oaks in Connecticut, i. 421, 442, 



Winthrop 



— a new species of oak, xiii. 306, Holwell 



Object glasses, proportions of the apertures, i. 22, . . Auzout 



— improved method of making, i. 298, Mancini 



— on grinding of hyperbolical glasses, i. 353; engine for, 



396, Wren 



— to remedy the defects arising from refrangibility of light, 



xi. 267, Dollond 



— account of his improvement in, xii. 19+, .... P. Dollond 



— method of working the spherical, xii. 691, Short 



— see Telescopes, Microscopes, Optic Glass, &c. 

 Observatory, difference of longitude of the Greenwich and 



Paris observatories, xi. 7 13, Short 



— of Tycho Brahe's observatory, iv. 525, Gordon 



— of the Bramin's, at Benares, xiv. 217, Barker 



— on the relative positions of the observatories at Paris and 



Greenwich, xvi. 218, Maskelyne 



— of Geneva, convenient for measuring an arc of the 



meridian, &c, xvii. 34, Pictet 



— descrip. of the Benares observatory, xvii. 291, Williams 

 Occultation, see the different planets, &c. 



Ocean, on a conjunction of, with the Euxine Sea, i. 15 

 Oenanthe crocata, poisonous qualities of, iv. 242, Vaughan 

 ix. 256, Watson 



— taken by mistake instead of water-parsnep, the medicinal 



effects of, xiii. 357, Pulteney 



Oil, of oils that effervesce and explode with or without 

 flame, iii. 063, Slare 



— ascent of between planes, v. 659 > suspension 679, 



Hauksbee 



— of sassafras crystallized, viii. 243, Maud 



— from the arachidna of North Carolina, xii. 665, Watson 

 Oldenburg, Henry, some account of, i. 1, Note 



— of conveying liquors into the mass of the blood, i. 45 



— a dropsy acquired by being constantly in the operrair, i. 49 



— of a propensity in a young girl to eat salt, i. 49 



