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INDEX. 



cal and physical sciences affected by, 

 216 ; influence of, on the development 

 of modern German science, 219 ; and 

 Hume and Descartes, 222 ; influence 

 of, on education in Germany, 257 ; 

 was inspired by Rousseau, 259 ; in- 

 fluenced by Hume, 273 ; philosophy 

 of, dispelled Cartesian philosophy in 

 Germany, 433 ; cosmological genesis 

 of planetary system, ii. 209 ; nebular 

 theory, 277, 282 ; late development 

 of, 309 ; ' Critique of Pure Reason,' 

 326 ; philosophical theories, 346 ; 

 metaphysics, 354; "specific ener- 

 gies," 482 ; science of sensation, 484 ; 

 time and space, 491, 492 ; the miud, 

 497 ; space perception, 506 ; and 

 Herder, 532, 535; freewill, 584; 

 634; 751. 



Kastner of Gottingen University, i. 

 165. 



Kater, scientific work of, i. 230. 



Kaufmann, W., Hamburg Address, ii. 

 190, 197. 



Kaup, Jacob, ' Skizzirte Entwickelungs- 

 geschichte und natiirliches System der 

 Europaischen Thierwelt,' ii. 317. 



Kayser, spectroscopic observations, ii. 

 361, 362. 



Keill, John, molecular attraction, i. 

 355. 



Kekule, chemical researches of, i. 412 ; 

 ' Lehrbuch der organischen Chemie ' 

 quoted, 421, 448 ; explains pheno- 

 menon of multiple proportions, 447 ; 

 theory of aromatic compounds, 449 ; 

 benzine ring, ii. 424. 



Kelland's edition of Young's writings 

 quoted, ii. 98, 104. 



Kelvin, Lord. See Sir William Thom- 

 son. 



Kepler, Bacon's indebtedness to, i. 94 ; 

 118 ; three laws, 157, 318 ; received 

 logarithms with enthusiasm, 269 ; 

 Newton and, 317; 374; father of 

 modern astronomy, 386 ; astron- 

 omical work of, ii. 227 ; 634. 



Kerner von Marilaun, ' The Natural 

 History of Plants' quoted, ii. 376. 



Kerry, B., on G. Cantor and mathe- 

 matics, ii. 634; 734. 



Ketteler, ' Theoretische Optik,' ii. 54. 



Kielmeyer and the Naturphilosophie, 

 i. 207 ; ii. 349. 



Kieser, D. G., and the Naturphilosophie, 

 i. 207 ; ii. 230 ; phytotomic researches 

 in Germany, 261. 



Kinetic, view of nature, ii. 3 ; the word 

 introduced by Ampere, 5 ; revival of 



kinetic view in nineteenth century, 

 7 ; theories, 34 ; theory of gases, ib. ; 

 view of nature, insufficiency of, 96 ; 

 the term substituted for "actual," 

 139; "kinetics" and "energetics," 

 180 ; 465, 574. 



Kirchhoff, Gustav, 'Mechanik,' i. 45; 

 ' Vorlesungen iiber Mathematische 

 Physik,' 231 ; discovery of spectrum 

 analysis, 277 ; coincidence between 

 electrical wave - motion and light, 

 372; Weber's law, 380; definition 

 of "mechanics," 382; Fraunhofer's 

 lines, ii. 48 ; ' Gesammelte Abhand- 

 lungen,' ib. ; caesium and rubidium, 

 49 ; emission and absorption of light 

 rays, 50 ; 51 ; spectrum analysis, 56 ; 

 "physical mechanics," 101. 



Kirwan, i. 117, ii. 291. 



Klaproth, i. 117 ; forerunner of Berze- 

 lius, 391 ; 393. 



Klein, 'G. Forster in Mainz,' i. 179. 



Klein, Felix, pupil of Pliicker, ii. 76 ; 

 his geometrical tract, 632 ; on the 

 period of Euclid, 635 ; ' Evanston 

 Colloquium ' quoted, ib. ; on abridged 

 mathematics, 636 ; 686 ; his ' Erlangen 

 Programme,' 690 ; and Lie, 691, 692, 

 718, 720 ; his tract on Riemann's 

 theory, 698, 699 ; on Riemann's in- 

 fluence, 700 et seq. ; on Riemann 

 and Weierstrass, 707 ; on Dirichlet's 

 principle, 708 ; on non-metrical rela- 

 tions, 713 ; on non-Euclidean geom- 

 etry, 715 ; on Cayley and von Staudt, 

 718 ; on generalised notion of dis- 

 tance, ib. ; on famous problems, 721, 

 731 ; on arithmetising tendency, 738, 

 740. 



Klopstock, Alcaic and Sapphic metres 

 of, i. 213. 



Knapp, statistics, ii. 563, 566. 



Knott on directional calculus, ii. 656. 



Knowledge, accumulation of, in nine- 

 teenth century, i. 28 ; method and 

 unity of, 29. 



Knox, John, creator of Scotch educa- 

 tional system, i. 253 ; 'First Book of 

 Discipline,' 255. 



Kobell, 'Geschichte der Mineralogie,' i. 

 117. 



Kochly, i. 162; 'Gottfried Hermann,' 

 169. 



Kohlrausch, F., electrolysis, ii. 164. 



Kohlrausch, R., electrical measure- 

 ments, i. 369; ii. 84. 



Kolbe, chemical researches of, i. 412 ; 

 attacks of, on 'Modern Chemistry, ' 

 455. 



