GENERAL INDEX 



Martin, Thomas Commerford, 

 quoted in reference to elec- 

 trical motors, 7, 179. 



Maskelyne, Nevil, astronomer 

 royal who antagonized Har- 

 rison the watchmaker, 7, 



3 2 - 



Maspero, Gaston Camille Charles, 

 a student of Egyptian archae- 

 ology, 1, 28; held that the 

 epagomenal days were in use 

 before the first Thinite dynas- 

 ty, 1, 36- 



Masson, M., French physicist 

 who explained the source of 

 incandescence in electric light, 

 6, 223. 



Matter, The Ether and Ponder- 

 able, Chapter IX, 3, 283. 



Matthews, American planter 

 who became a shoe manu- 

 facturer as early as 1648, 9, 

 109. 



Maupertius and the idea of the 

 transmutation of species, 4, 

 149. 



Mauretania, British ship which 

 in size and speed marks an 

 epoch in navigation, 7, 82. 



Maurey, invented an improve- 

 ment upon the phonauto- 

 graph, 8, 79. 



Maurice, Prince of Orange, a 

 passenger in the extraordina- 

 ry wind-propelled vehicle of 

 Servinus, 6, 68. 



Maury, M. F., his theory as to 

 the causes of the Gulf Stream, 

 3, 196. 



Maxim, Sir Hiram, the flying 

 machine of, 7, 283. 



Mayer, Dr. Julius Robert, his 

 paper on "The Forces of 

 Inorganic Nature," 3, 259; 

 asserts that a force once in ex- 

 istence cannot be annihilated, 

 3, 263 ; gave for the first time 

 a tenable explanation of the 

 light and heat of the sun and 

 stars, 3, 268; his explanation 

 of the continued heat of the 

 sun, 6. 206. 



Mayer, Johann Tobias, German 

 astronomer whose tables of 



great value to the navigator 

 were published in 1753, 7, 30. 



Mayow, John, experiments with 

 air, 4, 6. 



Mediaeval Science Among the 

 Arabians, Chapter II, 2, 13. 



Mediaeval Science in the West, 

 Chapter III, 2, 31. 



Mediaeval Ships, 7, 59. 



Medical Laboratories and Medi- 

 cal Problems, Some, Chapter 

 VII, 6, 178. 



Medicine, associated with 

 charms and incantations as 

 practised in ancient Egypt, 

 1, 46; equally so in Baby- 

 lonia-Assyria, 1, 70; the code 

 of Khammurabi throws light 

 on the methods of the physi- 

 cian of ancient Babylonia, 1, 

 76; in Greece, before the 

 time of Hippocrates, a mix- 

 ture of religion, necromancy, 

 and mysticism, 1, 170; the 

 sick were carried to temples 

 of the god of medicine, 

 ^sculapius, and took reme- 

 dies revealed to them in 

 dreams of the god, 1, 171; 

 many of the wealthy Greek 

 physicians had dispensaries, 

 1, 173; Hippocrates and his 

 reforms, 1, 174; Alexandrian 

 medicine, 1, 194; Galen and 

 Roman medicine, 1, 272; 

 Arabian medicine, 2 , 2 1 . For 

 the development of medicine 

 from the sixteenth century 

 to the present time, see the 

 preceding reference and the 

 three succeeding ones. See 

 also the chapters on physiol- 

 ogy- 

 Medicine in the Sixteenth and 

 Seventeenth Centuries, Chap- 

 ter VIII, 2, 181. 



Medicine, Eighteenth-Century, 

 Chapter VII, 4, 182. 



Medicine, Nineteenth-Century, 

 Chapter VIII, 4, 199. 



Mees, Dr., outlines the probable 

 future of color-photography, 

 8, 247. 



Mena, king of Egypt, 1, 28 



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