INDEX 



Abel, 211, n. i; 224, n. i. 



Academics, 213, n. 2; 214. 



Accademia del Cimento, founding of, 180 ; Steno 



member of, 209. 

 Acosta, de, 236, n. 2. 

 Accretions, 225 ; inorganic, 232, n. 2 ; to mar- 



casites, 247. 

 ^neas, 269. 

 ^Eschylus, 205, n. 3. 

 ^Esop, 252, n. I. 

 Aetites, 224, n. i. 

 Africa, land bridge from, 174. 

 Agate, 224, 225. 

 Agent, as form or idea, 216 ; determining motion, 



216; universal, 217. 

 Agricola, George, on glossopetro;, 2U, n. i ; on 



mountain formation, 232, n. 2 ; on gnomes, 



232, n. 2; on divining rod, 236, n. i. 

 Air, in breathing, 221 ; Hippocrates' theory of, 



223 ; explosion of, 231 ; in crystals, 238. 

 Albertus Magnus, on glossopetrse, 211, n. i. 

 Alchemy, 249, n. 2, 

 Alimentary canal, 221. 

 All Souls' Day, 180, n. 3. 

 Alps, 234, n. 2. 

 Alum, 243; feathery, 225. 

 Amethysts, 225. 

 Amianthus, 224. 



Ammon, marine deposits at temple of, 210, n. i. 

 Ammonium chloride, 261, n. 2. 

 Amniotic fluid, 220. 



Amsterdam, Steno's arrival in, 176, 183, 208, n. i. 

 Anaximander, 251, n. i. 

 Ancients, 267, 269; on fossils, 2io f. 

 Ancona, 256. 



Angelis, de, on Steno's degree, 176, n. 1. 

 Angles, law of constancy of interfacial, 171; of 



crystals, 237, Z48 ; of hematite, 245 ; of mar- 



casites, 248. 

 Angular bodies, 220; with meaning of crystals, 



225, 226, 244 ; of iron, 244 f. ; place and pro- 

 duction of, 244 ; planes of hematite, 245 ; 



striation of, 244 f. 

 Animals, 216 ; fluids in, 221 ; formation of, 221 ; 



parts of, 257 ; place of growth in, 220 ; shells 



of, 218. 

 Antimony, 218. 

 Apennines, 260, n. i. 



Aqua fortis, 243, n. 1 ; regia, 243, n. 1. 



Aquaria, 253. 



Arabian Gulf, 210, n. 1. 



Arbuthnot, 266, n. i. 



Arezzo, fossils at, 259. 



Aristotle, 251, n. i. 



Armenia, salt lakes in, 210, n. I. 



Arno, extinct animals in valley of, 174, 260, n. i; 



269. 

 Arnolfini, Lavinia Felice Cenanni, 180. 

 Artaxerxes, 210, n. i. 

 Arteries, 222. 

 Ashes, in strata, 229, 232. 

 Atlantic, level of, 210, n. i. 

 Atlantis, 269. 



Atoms, 216. , 



Axes, of crystals, 237, 272 f. 



Bacchus, 269. 



Bacon, Francis, 181, n. 3 ; 196, 205, n. 3. 



Balanoids, 256. 



Banks, Sir Joseph, 197. 



Bardis, de, 271. 



Barlffius, Caspar, 232, n. i. 



Bartholin, Thomas, 175, 176 f., 207, n. 3 ; 211, n. I. 



Baudry, Paul, 205, n. 3. 



Beaumont, Elie de, 201. 



Bezoar, 224. 



Bitumen, 229, 232, 261. 



Bladder, 221. 



Blaes, Gerard, 176, 177, 178. 



Blondel, 181. 



Blood, circulation of, 222. 



Boccone, 260, n. i. 



Bodies, produced naturally, 215 ; not produce^ 



by earth and rocks, 218. 

 Bohemia, 232, n. 2. 

 Bologna, 186. 

 Bones, broken, 225 ; fibrous, 258 ; fossil taken 



for human, 258 ; enclosed in solids, 218. 

 Boni, 232, n. 2. 

 Borch, Ole, see Borrichius. 

 Borrichius, 175, 178. 

 Bossuet, 180. 

 Boyle, Robert, 198, 199, 199, n. i ; 200, n. i ; 



232, n. I ; 236, n. I ; 241, n. 2; 243, n. i ; 



249, n. 2. 

 Brazil, 232. 



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