INDEX. 



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Tibullus, his " Lustration of the Fields," 

 34. 



Tieck, Liidwig, quotation from, on Cal- 

 deron, 73 ; on Shakspeare, 73, 74. 



Timochares, early Alexandrian astrono- 

 mer, 177, 178. 



11n, early commerce for, 130, 131. 



Titian, landscapes in his pictures, 88. 



Toledo, astronomical congress of, 223. 



Torricelli, his invention of the barometer, 

 338. 



Toscanelli, letters of, 246, 251 ; sea-chart, 

 261, 262 ; scientific acquirements, 267. 



Travels and travelers of the Middle Ages, 

 78, 249-253, 259 ; character of their nar- 

 ratives compared with those of modern 

 times, 78, 79. 



Tropics, luxuriant beauty of the land- 

 scapes, 97 ; cultivation of exotic plants, 

 99-105 ; paintings of tropical scenery, 

 90-92 ; why more accurate and beauti- 

 ful paintings may be anticipated, 99; 

 associations connected with descrip- 

 tions of tropical scenery, 99. 



Troy, data of its destruction, 115. 



I'scheu-kung, early measurement of the 

 length of the solstitial shadow, 115. 



Tsing-wang (Chinese emperor), use of 

 the compass and "magnetic cars," 191, 

 253. 



Tuscaroras, on the language and descent 

 of, 236. 



Tycho Brahe, 109, 313, 316 ; his astro- 

 nomical discovery of the " variation," 

 222. 



Tyre, Tynans. See Phoenicians. 



Ukert on the amber trade of the ancients, 



131. 

 Ulugh Beig, observatory and gymnasium 



founded by, 223. 



Vedas, Indian hymns, in praise of nature, 



50. 

 Veg'jtation of the cold and tropical zones, 



9H.97. 



Venus, discoveiy of its crescent shape, 

 325 326 



Vespucci, Amerigo, 239, 282, 286, 289, 292, 

 294 ; peculiar charm lent to his deline- 

 ations of nature, 65; examination of tha 

 accidental causes which led to the nam- 

 ing of the New World. 297-301. 



Vidal, Capt, height of the Peak of Tene- 

 riffe, 135. 



Vincentius of Beauvais, 229, 241 ; hi« 

 " Mirror of Nature," 246, 253, 254. 



Vinci, Leonardo da, landscape in his pic- 

 ture of Mona Lisa, 88 ; attainments in 

 physical science, 283; on the ash-col- 

 ored light of the moon, 320 ; geognos- 

 tic conjectures, 347. 



Vinland, early American settlement of 

 the Northmen, 230-232, 238. 



Virgil, beauty of his descriptions of na- 

 ture, 32, 33. 



Vitruvius, 85. 98, 256. 



Voltaic pile, its discovery compared with 

 that of the telescope, 354. 



Voltaire on the "Araucana" of Ercilla, 

 71, 72. 



Vossius, Isaac, researches on light, 333. 



Waagen, Professor, notes on early paint- 

 ings, 86, 87. 



Warahamihara, Indian mathematician, 

 187. 



Wellsted, first reported the existence of 

 three mountain chains in Arabia, 205. 



Weilauff on the amber trade, 131. 



Xenophanes, his geognostic conjectures, 

 189. 



Yemen, its natural products, 204, 205. 

 Young, Thomas, his discovery of the in« 

 terference of light, 332, 343. 



Zeni, the Fratelli, travels of, 238. 

 Zodiacal light, its discovery and scientifi* 



results, 329, 330. 

 Zuniga, Juana de, wife of Cortez, 271. 



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