A HISTORY OF SCIENCE 



Medicine, mixture of religion, 

 necromancy, and mysticism, 

 i. 170; the sick were carried to 

 temples of the god of medicine, 

 ^Esculapius, and took remedies 

 revealed to them in dreams of 

 the god, i. 171; many of the 

 wealthy physicians had dis- 

 pensaries, i. 173. 



Mena, king of Egypt, i. 28. 



Menant on the development of 

 a rudimentary science of nat- 

 ural history among the Baby- 

 lonians, i. 75. 



Mendeleeff, Dmitri, attention 

 drawn to the "law of octaves," 

 iv. 68. 



Mesopotamia, named by the 

 Greeks, i. 56; its civilization 

 fully on a par with that of 

 Egypt, i. 59; its earliest in- 

 habitants were an alien race, 

 i. 60. 



Metamorphosis of parts, iv. 140; 

 Goethe's studies of, in plants, 

 iv. 140, 145; extended to the 

 animal kingdom, iv. 146. 



Meteorites, the "fire ball" of 

 1803, iii. 168; Jean Baptiste 

 Biot's investigation of, iii. 

 169; scientists differed as to its 

 origin, ibid.; Chladni thought 

 that they were one in kind 

 and origin as the "shooting- 

 stars," iii. 170; the great 

 shower of 1833, iii. 171; the 

 "miracle" of the falling stone, 

 iii. 172. 



Meyer, Lothar, attention drawn 

 to the "law of octaves," iv. 

 68. 



Micrometer, the, Huygens's in- 

 vention of, ii. 254. 



Microscope, invented by Jensen, 

 ii. 77; in the Newtonian 

 period, ii. 258 ; attempts to im- 

 prove the, iv. 109, i 10,111; 

 Dr. Amici's reflecting, iv. 112; 

 Amici's improved compound, 

 iv. 113; shape of red cor- 

 puscles settled by use of the, 

 iv. 114. 



Milky Way explained by Galileo, 

 ii. 79. 



"Missing link," the, no longer 

 missing, v. 173. 



Mitchell, his theory about the 

 Pleiades, iii. 35. 



Mohammed, his liberal view of 

 medicine, ii. 23. 



Mohr, Karl Friedrich, held the 

 doctrine that heat, light, elec- 

 tricity, and magnetism cannot 

 be created but only made 

 manifest, iii. 257. 



Molecules, Lord Kelvin's estimate 

 of the size of those floating in 

 the air, iii. 298 ; under ordinary 

 circumstances they are in a 

 state of intense but variable 

 vibration, iii. 300; they may 

 be in the form of gas, liquid, 

 or solid, iii, 301; experiments 

 with Crookes's radiometer, 

 ibid.; conditions under which 

 they assume a liquid form, iii. 

 302. 



Mondino of Bologna, "the re- 

 storer of anatomy," ii. 37. 



Montague Mansion, first home of 

 British Museum, v. 5 ; erection 

 of present building, v. 6. 



Moon, studies of the, iii. 48; 

 speculations concerning, iii. 

 49; the possible lengthening 

 of the day, iii. 50. 



"Moon's variation," determined 

 by Arabian astronomer, ii. 17; 

 rediscovered by Tycho Brahe, 

 ii. 69. 



Moppert, translation of tablets 

 concerning birth-portents, i. 



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Morgagni, Giovanni Battista, in- 

 vestigations in anatomy, iv. 76. 



Morrison, his translation of 

 Ritter's rendering of part of the 

 poem of Parmenides on the 

 origin of man, i. 131. 



Morton, Dr. W. T. G., experi- 

 ments with sulphuric ether, iv. 

 214. 



Miiller, Johannes, studies in em- 

 bryology, iv. 122. 



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