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Creuzer on the " Adonia Gardets" of the 

 ancients, 92. 



Crusades, slightness of their influence on 

 the Minnesingers, 47. 



Otesias, his account of an Indian spring, 

 138 ; on the relations between Uglitning 

 and conducting metals, 140 ; on India, 

 154, 156, 158. 



Cteeibus, hydraulic clock of, 179, 220. 



Curtius, fine natural picture in his writ- 

 ings, 36. 



Cuss, Nicholas de, a German cardinal, re- 

 vived the doctrine of the Earth's rota- 

 tion on its axis, and ti'anslation in space, 

 109. 



Cuvier, his life of Aristotle, 160-162 ; on 

 the scientific merits of Frederic IL, 244 ; 

 palaeontological researches, 348. 



Cuyp, his landscapes, 89. 



Pante, "southern stars," quotation, 20: 

 instances of his deep sensibiUty to the 

 charms of nature, 63 ; notices in his po- 

 etry—on Aristotle, 160; on Albertus 

 Magnus, 244 ; on the magnetic needle, 

 254 ; on the constellation of the South- 

 ern Cross, 288-290. 



Darwin, Charles, vivid pictures in his 

 writings, 80. 



Delille, his poems on nature, 80. 



Dschayadeva, Indian poet, his " Gitago- 

 vinda," 53, 54. 



Diaz, Bartholomew, his discovery of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, 252. 



Dicaearchus, diaphragm of, 152, 177. 



DIcuil, Irish monk, his work " De Mensu- 

 ra Orbis Terras," 235. 



Diodorus on the Gardens of Semiramis, 

 101 ; praise of the Etruscans, 140. 



Diophantus, the arithmetician and alge- 

 braist, 183, 187. 224. 



^ioscorides of Cilicia, botanical investiga- 

 tions ot; 182, 194, 195, 204, 210. 



Distillation of a fluid, first mention of, 

 162. 



Di>rians, their mental characteristics, 143 ; 

 migrations, 148-150. 



Drummond's incandescent lime-ball, 325. 



Dscheber (Djaber), Arabian chemist, 209, 

 218. 



Duran, D. Augustiu, his Romancero, 72. 



Ebn-Junis, first employed a pendulum to 

 measure time, 219, 220 ; his astronom- 

 ical observations, 222, 223. 



Eckhout, his large pictures of tropical 

 productions, 92. 



Eginhard on the Arabian clock sent to 

 Charlemagne, 220. 



Egypt, its chronological data, 114, 115, 

 123-128; civilization, 125-128 ; monu- 

 ments of its kings, 124 ; victories and 

 distant expeditions of Rameses Mia- 

 moun, 124-126; Egjrptian navigation, 

 125-128 ; foundation of a permanent 

 foreign commerce introduced with 

 Greek hired troops, and its results, 127, 

 128, 138 ; its greatness under the Ptol- 

 emies, 170, 179 ; intercourse with dis- 

 imt countries, 171-174. 



Ehrenberg on the incense and myrrh ot 

 Arabia, 204, 205 



Elcano, Sebastian de, completed the first 

 circumnavigation of the globe after the 

 death of Magellan, 270. 



Electrical science, gradual dawn cf, 341- 

 344. 



Elephants, African and Indian, 174 ; im« 

 mense armies of, 174. 



El-Istachri, Arabian geographer, 213. 



ElUptic movement of the planets, discov- 

 ery of, 314-317. 



Elmo, St., fire of, 69. 



Elysium, or " Islands of the Blessed" of 

 the ancients, 134. 



Empedocles, his poems " on Nature," 24. 



Encke, Professor, on the distance at which 

 eruptions of ^tna are visible, 136. 



Encyclopasdic scientific works of the Mid- 

 dle Ages, 246. 



Epochs, early comparisons of, among civ- 

 ilized nations, 114, 115. 



Epochs, great, in the advancement of hu- 

 man knowledge, 303, 316. 



Equatorial current, first described by Co- 

 lumbus, 283, 284. 



Eratosthenes, 152, 154, 156, 188; on the 

 number of peninsulas in the Mediterra- 

 nean, 120 ; his geographical labors, 176, 

 177 ; conjecture of the equal level of the 

 whole external sea, 177 ; measurement 

 of degrees, 177 ; enlarged physical and 

 geognostic opinions, i76-178, 196. 



Ercilla, Don Alonso de, his Epic poem 

 " Araucana," 71, 72, 266, 285. 



Eric Upsi, first bishop of Greenland, 232. 



Etruscans, the, their inland trafiic, 139 ; 

 influence of their character on Rome, 

 and her political institutions, 139 ; their 

 notice of the meteorological processes 

 of nature, 139, 140. 



Euclid. 179. 



Eudoxus, his attempted circumnaviga- 

 tion of Cyzicus, 127. 



Euripides, picturesque descriptions of na- 

 ture in his writings, 25, 26 ; prophecy 

 in the chorvis of his Medea, 182. 



Eutocius, method of. See Numerals. 



Everdingen, his landscapes, 89, 96. 



Eyck, Hubert and Johann van, landscapes 

 in their paintings, 87. 



Fabricius, Johann, first observed the solar 

 spots, 324, 325. 



Falero, Ruy, Portuguese astronomer, 293. 



Faraday, investigations on dia-magnetic 

 substances, 334, 335 ; discovery of the 

 evolution of light by magnetic force, 

 336, 343. 



Ferdinandea, volcanic island of, 120. 



Finnish tribes, their poetry, in relation to 

 nature, 56. 



Firdusi, Persian poet, 55 ; myth of the or- 

 igin of the cypress in Paradise, 101. 



Flemming, Paul, old German poet, 76, 77 



Forster's " Delineations of the South Sea 

 Islands," its effect on the author's mind, 

 20; his translation of Sacontala, 50; his 

 merits as a writer, 80. 



Frederic II. of Hohenstaufen, letter of, to 



