INDEX 



ABELARD, 83. 

 Ability, distribution of, 151. 

 Academia Secretorum Naturae, 127. 

 Academic des Sciences, 128. 

 Academies, scientific, 127. 

 Accademia del Cimento, 127. 

 Adam, legend of, 26. 

 ADAMS, JOHN COUCH, 162. 



jESGHYl US, 34. 



^Ether, theory of, 131, 171, 174, 



184, 241 et seg. 

 Age of man, 203. 

 Agriculture, 22, 23. 

 Ague, 199. 

 ALBERTI, 108. 

 ALBERTUS MAONUS, 87. 

 ALCUIN, 71, 149. 

 Alexandria, 56, 57, 79. 

 ALFRED THE GREAT, 71. 

 Almagest, The, 56. 

 Alpine race, see under Race. 

 America, discovery of, 104. 

 AMERIGO VESPUCCI, 108. 

 AMMON, 230. 

 Anaesthetics, 200. 

 Anatomy, 53, 112, 133. 

 ANAXAGORAS, 35. 

 ANAXIMENES, 39. 

 ANSELM, 83. 



Antarctic exploration, 194. 

 Anthropology, 222 et seq. 

 ANTONIO DELLA TORRK, 109. 

 Apothecaries, Society of, 138. 

 AQUINAS, THOMAS, 87 et seq., 125, 



145^ 146. 

 Arabia, 78. 



Arabian science, 77 et seq. 

 ARCHIMEDES, 38, 51, 109. 

 Arian Church, 61, 67, 79. 

 ARISTARCHUS, 40, 47. 

 ARISTOPHANES, 35. 

 ARISTOTLE, 40, 45 et seq., 62. 80, 



82, 85, 86, 88, 116, 204, 217, 



251. 



ARNOLD, MATTHEW, 143. 

 Asceticism, 63. 

 Asgard, 74. 



Association, mental, 256. 

 Assyria, 25. 



Astrology, 23, 28, 63, 127. 

 Astronomy, 4, 22, 28, 40, 56, 77, 



89, in, 117, 126, 127, 161, 



162, 175. 

 Athens, 38, 69. 

 Atomic weights, 170 et seq. 

 Atomists, the Greek, 43, 204, 217, 



240, 283. 



Atoms, theory of, 43, 53, 1 68, 240. 

 AUGUSTINE, 64. 

 Authority, 151. 

 Autonomy of life, 277. 

 AVEBURY, LORD, 213, 215. 



AVERRHOES, 80, 89. 



AVICENNA, 78, 132. 

 AVOGADRO, AMERICO, 8, 170. 



Babylonia, 4, 223. 



BACON, FRANCIS, LORD, 91, 120 



et seq., 205, 221. 

 BACON, FRIAR ROGER, 80, 85, 90 



et seq. 



Bacteria, see Microbes. 

 Baghdad, 77, 78. 

 BALFOUR, ARTHUR]., 221, 277. 

 BATESON, WILLIAM, 246. 

 BEACONSFIELD, LORD, 225, 259. 

 11 Beagle," Voyage of the, 193, 210. 

 BECQUEREL, HENRI, 238. 

 BEDE, THE VENERABLE, 71. 

 BELLARMINE, CARDINAL, 114. 

 Benedictine Order, 70. 

 BERENGARIUS OF TOURS, 83. 

 BERGSON, HENRI, 277, 279. 

 BERKELEY, BISHOP, 270. 

 Bestiary, The, 66. 

 BIFFEN, R., 248. 

 Biology, 53, 188, 277. 

 Birth-rate, 229, 280. 

 Black Death, the, 99. 

 BLACK, DR JOSI-.PH, 165, 167. 

 BOETIUS, 68, 71, 82. 

 Bologna, University of, 81. 

 BORCH, 164. 

 Botanic gardens, 137 



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