INDEX. 



359 



Bcription of physical phenomena, 68- 

 71. 



Canary Islands, regarded by Don Fernan- 

 do, son of Columbus, as the Cassiteri- 

 des of the Carthaginians, 132, 133 ; sup- 

 posed " happy islands" of the ancients, 

 133, 134 ; early notices of, 134, 135. 



Caravan trade of the Phoenicians, 130 ; of 

 Western Asia, 170, 171 ; Egypt, 171, 172. 



Cardanus, Hieronymus, writings of, 260, 

 261. 



Carthage, its geographical site, 120 ; nav- 

 igation, 132 ; greatness, 149. See Phoe- 

 nicians. 



Carus on the tone of mind awakened by 

 landscape, 89. 



Caspian Sea, 145 ; Chinese expedition to, 

 183. 



Cassini, Dominicus, his observations on 

 Saturn's ring, 323, 329 ; zodiacal hght, 

 329. 



Cassius, Mount, the probable " amber 

 coast" of the Phoenicians, 130. 



Castilian heroic ages, impulses of, 65. 



Castor, Antonius, botanical gardens of, 

 195. 



Catlin on the language and descent of the 

 Indian tribe of the Tuscaroras, 236. 



Caucasus, Grecian myths respecting, 144. 



Celto-Irish poems, 48. 



Cervantes, his Don Quixote and Galatea, 

 68, 71. 



Chasrcmon, his remarkable love of nature 

 compared by Sir William Jones to that 

 of the Indian poets, 28. 



Chaldean astronomers and mathemati- 

 cians, 167, 177. 



Charlemagne, Arabian presents sent to, 

 220. 



Charles V., letter to Cortez, 270. 



Chateaubriand, Auguste de, 75-77. 



Chemistry, pneumatic, dawn of, 344-346 ; 

 chemical knowledge of the Romans, 

 194 ; of the Arabs, 211, 212, 217, 218. 



Childrey, first observed the zodiacal light, 

 329. 



Chinese, their pleasure gardens, and pas- 

 sages from their writers on the subject, 

 103-105 ; antiquity of their chronology, 

 114, 115 ; warlike expedition to the Cas- 

 pian, 186 ; Iloman embassy to China, 

 187 ; early use of the magnetic needle, 

 191, 253 ; of movable types in printing, 

 249. 



Chivalric poetry of the thirteenth centu- 

 ry, 46. 



Christianity, results of its diffusion in the 

 expansion of the views of men, in their 

 communion with nature, 38, 39 ; its hu- 

 manization of nations, 199. 



Chrysostom, his eloquent admiration of 

 nature, 43. 



Cicero on the golden flow of Aristotle's 

 eloquence, 29; his keen susceptibility 

 for the beauties of nature, 31, 32 ; on 

 the ennobling results of its contempla- 

 tion, 197, 198. 



Cimento, Accademia del, scientific re- 

 searches of, 337-343. 



Ciwilization, early centers of, 115, 117, 123. 



Classical literature, why so termed, 180 ; 

 influence of its revival on the contem- 

 plation of nature, 248, 249. 



Claude Lorraine, his landscapes, 89, 96. 



Claudian, quotation from, on the domin- 

 ion of the llomans, 198. 



Colseus of Samos, his passage through the 

 Pillars of Hercules into the Western 

 Ocean, 150, 151, 152. 



Colchis, Argonautic expedition to, 144, 

 145. 



Colebrooke on the epochs of the Indian 

 mathematicians, 187 ; on the incense ol 

 Arabia, 204, 205 ; Arabic translation of 

 Diophantus, 224. 



Colonna, Vittoria, her poems, 64. 



Columbus, peculiar charm lent to his de- 

 lineations of nature, 65 ; their religious 

 sentiment, 65 ; their beauty and sim- 

 plicity, 66; his acute and discriminating 

 observation of nature, 66, 67; his dream 

 on the shore of Veragua, 67 ; letter to 

 Queen Isabella, 78 ; on the land of 

 Ophir, 138 ; visit to Iceland, 238 ; died 

 in the belief that the lands discovered 

 in America were portions of Eastern 

 Asia, 239, 264, 265 ; made use of the 

 writings of Cardinal Alliacus, 247, 251 ; 

 his letter to Ferdinand and Isabella, on 

 the coa.st of Veragua, 251 ; on his knowl- 

 edge of the log. 257 ; scientific charac- 

 teristics, 263, 264, 274 ; erroneous views 

 on the extent of the Old Continent, 267- 

 269 ; heraldic bearings bestowed on, 

 270 ; physical observations in his letter 

 from Haiti, October, 1498, 276 ; discov- 

 ery of the magnetic line of no variation, 

 278, 279 ; first described the equatorial 

 current, 283, 284; the Mar de Sargasso, 

 285 ; on the method of taking a ship's 

 reckoning, 293, 294. 



Compass, its discovery and employment, 

 253-255 ; transmission through the 

 Arabs to Europe from the Chinese, 

 253-255. 



Conquista, affe of the, great events it era- 

 braced, 296. 



Conquistadores, impulses which animated 

 them, 271. 



Copernicus, 301; greatness of his epoch, 

 303 ; his life and studies, 304, 305 ; grand- 

 eur of his views, and boldness of his 

 teaching, 305-308 ; his eloquent de- 

 scription of his system, 307, 308 ; knowl 

 edge of the ideas of the ancients on the 

 structure of the universe, 310, 311. 



Cortenovis, Father Angelo, story related 

 by, on the tomb of Lars Porsena, 139, 

 140. 



Cortez, Hernan, expeditions of, 270, 271, 

 296. 



Cosa, Juan de la, map of the world, 263, 

 265, 298. 



Cosmas Indicopleustes, 188, 189, 272. 



Cosmos, its science and history discrim- 

 inated, 106, 108. 



Coupvent and Dumoulin on the height 

 of the Peak of Teneritte, J 35. 



Covilham, Pedro de, and Alonso de Pavya, 

 embassy to Prester John, 252 



