Part 2 / Book 6 — INDEX (continued 3)

Johnson, E. J., “On the influence which magnetic needles exercise over each other” (Phil. Trans. for 1834).

Johnston, J., “Thaumatographia naturalis,” 1665, 554

Johnstone, James (at Faraday, Michael, A.D. 1821), 498

Jones, Alexander, “Historical sketch of the electric telegraph,” 159

Jones, G., “Observations on the Zodiacal Light ...,” 1856.

Jones, Henry Bence. See Royal Society, also 498

Jones, H. Lewis, “Medical Electricity,” 183, 189

Jones, J. Winter (at Varthema, L. di, A.D. 1502), 69

Jones, Prof. Stanley (at Porta, Giambattista della, A.D. 1558), 72

Jones, Thomas, “On his reflecting compass” (Gilb., Annal, LIV. 197, 508).

Jones, William (1675(?)-1740), “Epitome of navigation....”

Jones, William (1726–1800), “Essay on electricity”: London, 1799, 281;

Jones and Rittenhouse, 1793.

Jordan, C. J., “Engraving by galvanism” (Mechanics’ Magazine for June, 1839).

Jordan, Johann Ludwig (mentioned at A.D. 1812), 419

Josephus, Flavius (b. A.D. 37), 9

Joubert, Marcel (at Faraday, Michael, A.D. 1821), 499

Joule, James Prescott (b. 1818), 346

(Ann. of Electricity, IV. 203, 1839; IV. 474, 1840; V. 187, 1840; V. 431, 1841; Phil. Mag., Ser. iii., XXIII. for 1843; Phil. Mag. for Oct., Dec. 1851 and Jan. 7, 1852).

Jourdain, Amable Louis M. M. Bréchillet (1738–1818), 11, 38

Jourdain, Charles Marie Gabriel Bréchillet (b. 1817), 11

Jourdain, M., “Sur les traductions d’Aristotle,” 36

Journal de Chimie.... See Mons, J. B. van.

Journal de Chimie et d’histoire naturelle. See Moll, Gerit.

Journal de Chimie—Physique, de Philippe—A. Guye: Genève, 392

Journal de la société de pharmacie, 285, 306, 363

Journal de L’Ecole Polytechnique. See Ecole Polytechnique.

Journal de Leipzig, 248, 285

Journal de Litterature médicale, 241

Journal de Médecine, 249, 255, 326, 402, 556.

See also Bacher.

Journal de Paris, 265, 271, 284, 288, 300, 342, 351

Journal de Pharmacie, 493

Journal de Physiologie, 325

Journal de Physique. See Rozier, Monge; de la Méthérie; begun as “Introdn. sur la physique,” 140, 198, 201, 207, 218, 224, 229, 235, 240, 241, 243, 248, 249, 257, 258, 259, 261, 262, 266, 271, 273, 274, 275, 277, 279, 280, 281, 284, 285, 288, 292, 295, 298, 300, 302, 303, 304, 306, 313, 320, 324, 326, 328, 329, 330, 337, 341, 349, 350, 351, 355, 362, 375, 376, 379, 383, 388, 394, 401, 402, 416, 431, 453, 476, 556, 557

Journal der Chemie. See Gehlen, A. F.

Journal der Physik, von Friedrich Albert Carl Gren (1760–1798): Halle, Leipzig, 1790–1794; continued as Neues Journal der Physik, von F. A. C. Gren: Leipzig, 1795–1797; continued as Annalen der Physik, von (F. A. C. Gren) L. W. Gilbert: Halle, 1797–1808; Neue Folge, 1809–1818, Neueste Folge, 1819–1824; continued as Annalen der Physik (und Chemie), von J. C. Poggendorff: Leipzig 1824–1877, etc. “Journal für Chemie und Physik ...,” edited by J. J. Bernhardi, C. F. Bucholz ..., J. S. C. Schweigger and Dr. Meinecke: Nürnberg, 1811–1820, 220, 248, 249, 271, 284, 293, 303, 316, 320, 335, 449

Journal des Débats, 224, 377

Journal des Mines, 288, 314, 324, 388, 415

Journal des Savants—Sçavans. See Annales des Sciences, viii, x, xvii, 11, 16, 20, 24, 26, 32, 33, 37, 39, 40, 42, 43, 54, 55, 61, 65, 75, 91, 93, 94, 96, 105, 117, 121, 122, 125, 127, 129, 130, 134, 140, 143, 144, 151, 152, 153, 155, 162, 166, 171, 178, 183, 187, 189, 199, 204, 214, 229, 233, 235, 242, 247, 262, 280, 300, 322, 355, 370, 371, 375, 380, 389, 462, 476, 505, 508, 510, 514, 517, 520, 521, 522, 526, 533, 536, 538

Journal des travaux de l’académie de l’industrie française, 421

Journal du galvanisme. See Nauche, J. L.

Journal Encyclopédique. See Bologna.

Journal für die chemie und pharmacie. See Gehlen, A. F. von.

Journal für die chemie und physik. See Gehlen, A. F. von, at Scherer, A. N.

Journal für chemie und physik. See Gren as above, likewise Scherer, Schweigger, also Nürnberg.

Journal für praktische chemie. See Erdmann, Scherer, also Nürnberg.

Journal littéraire à la Haye, 155

Journal littéraire de Berlin, 263

“Journal of Arts and Sciences.” See Newton’s.

Journal of British Astronomical Association, 93

Journal of natural philosophy, chemistry and the Arts, by William Nicholson, publication commenced in London during 1797. After Vol. 36, it was incorporated with the Phil. Mag. See p. 548.

Journal of physiological medicine, 499

Journal of science and the arts. See Dublin, also Quarterly Journal, likewise Royal Institution, 418, 437

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 93

Journal of the (British) Royal Institute. See London.

Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, edited by F. P. Jones and others, 27, 81, 199.

See Franklin Institute.

Journal of the Horticultural Society, 257

Journal of the Royal Institution, 322

Journal of the Society of Arts: London. See Society of Arts.

Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, 440, 455

Journal of the Telegraph, 440

“Journal Télégraphique,” publication commenced at Berne during 1869.

Jove—Jovius—Paul—Paolo Jovio (1483–1552), Italian historian, 58, 211, 506, 507.

See Moreri, L., Grand Dictionnaire, Vol. V. Pt. I, pp. 160–161.

Joyce, Jeremiah (1763–1816).

Jukes, J. Beete (at Mitscherlich, E., A.D. 1820), 471

Julia-Fontenelle, Jean Simon Sébastien Eugène de (1780–1842), “Manuel de l’électricité”; “Sur les combustions humaines spontanées”; “Manuel de Physique,” 329

Julio. See Giulio. Bibliothèque Italienne, 5 Vols., by Gioberti, Vassalli-Eandi and Rossi.

Julius Cæsar Moderatus.

Julius Cæsar Scaliger. See Scaliger.

Jungnitz, L. A., “Aphorismen über d. lehre von d. Elektricität”: Breslau, 1794, 1796.

Junoblowiskiana Society, 285, 302, 303

Jurine, Louis (1751–1819), 331

Justin of Nassau Court and Olden Barnevelt, 518

K

Kaempfer, Engebrecht (1651–1716), 149, 230, 240

Kaemtz—Kamtz—Ludwig Friedrich (1801–1867), 185, 195, 249, 257, 308, 414, 416, 417;

“Lehrbuch der meteorologie,” “Untersuchungen ...,” 1826 (Schweigg. Journ., XXXVIII. 1823; XLV. 1825; LIII. and LXI. 1828 and 1831; LVI. 1829; Phil Mag., LXII. 441; Mém. des Sar. Etrang., Vol. VI.; Bull. Phys. Math. Acad. St. Petersb., VII. 1849).

Kaestner, Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb—Kastner, Christian—(1783–1857), 220, 314, 408, 529;

“Archives für ... naturlehre,” 18 Vols.: Nürnberg, 1824, 1829; “Archives für ... meteorologie,” 1830; “Medicin Gelehrte-Lexikon.”

Kahm—Kalm—P. (mentioned at Dalton, John, A.D. 1793), 308

(Schwedische Akad. Abhandl., an 1752, p. 153).

Kai-bara—Tok-sin, shows in the “Wa-zi-si” that the first magnetic cars were constructed in Japan during A.D. 658, 27

Kapp, Friedrich, “Geschichte ...,” 508

Karlsruhe Polytechnische Schule.

Karsten, Carl Johann Bernhard (1782–1853), 511;

“Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Physik”: Leipzig, 1856.

Karsten, Gustav (b. 1820), “Allgemeine Physik.” One of the editors of Vol. I. of the “Allg. Encycl. d. Physik.”

Karsten, Wenceslaus Johann Gustav (1732–1787), Anleitung ... Kenntn. d. Natur, 1783.

Kast, Johann Joachim, “Questionum decades duæ de magnete”: Strasburg, 1683.

Kastner—Kästner—Abraham G., “Geschichte der mathematik,” 93, 96, 115, 117, 147, 538, 541

Kazwini. See Zakarizā.

Keferstein—Kefferstein—W., and Kupffer, D., 300

Keill, John (1671–1721), “Introductiones ad veram physicum,” 151, 163

Keir—Kier—James (Phil. Trans. for 1776) (1735–1820), 297

Keiser (at Zamboni, Giuseppe, A.D. 1812), 420

Kelland, Rev. P. (at Young, Thomas, A.D. 1807), 395

Kelly, John, Rector of Copford, “The life of J. Dollond ... inventor of the achromatic telescope,” 214

Kelsch, M. (at Dalton, John, A.D. 1793) 308

(Commerc. Litt. Norimb., 1734).

Kelvin, Lord. See Thomson, Sir William.

Kemp, M., “Description of a non-galvanic pile ...,” 1828 (Jameson’s Journ., VI.).

Kempe, Rev. J. E. (at Oersted, H. C., A.D. 1820), 455

Kempelen, Wolfgang von, 171

Kendall—Kendal—Abram—Abraham—English navigator, 69, 76, 522

Keou-tsoungchy, writes the earliest known description of a water compass, 29

Kepler, Johann (1571–1630), 92, 93, 95, 141, 208, 266, 484, 508;

“Stella Martis,” “Epitome Astronomiæ Copernicanæ ...,” 1635. See Moreri, L., “Dictionnaire Historique ...,” Vol. V. Pt. 2, p. 21; Wundt, “Philosophische Studien,” Index, p. 34.

Kerckring, Theodor. See Kirckringius.

Kerner, T. (at Aldini, G., A.D. 1793), 305

Kerr, Robert (1755–1813), 297

Kew Observatory (at Ronalds, Sir Francis, A.D. 1816), 440

Kiel University (at Pfaff, C. H., A.D. 1821), 483

Kielmayer—Kielmaier—Karl Friedrich (1765–1844), 284, 302, 326;

“Dissertatio sistens ... de electricitate et galvanismo”: Tubingen, 1802; “Examen experimentorum ... effectus magnetis ...”: Tubingen, 1813.

Kienmayer, Franz von (d. 1802), “Sur une nouvelle manière de préparer l’amalgame electrique ...”: Paris, 1788 (Jour. de Phys., XXXIII. 1788, 97;

Opusc. Scelti, XII. 3, 1789).

Kierski, M. (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 386;

“Dissertatio de electricitatis ...”: Berolini, 1854.

Kies, Johann (1713–1871), “De effectibus electricitatis ...”: Tubingen, 1775.

Kiesser (Archiv., IV. 62), 401

Kilian, Franz M. (at Aldini, G., A.D. 1793), 306

King, Rev. C. W., “Antique gems,” 18, 526

King-che-so, the oldest known monument of sculptured stone, 3

King, Edward, “Remarks concerning stones said to have fallen from the clouds, both in these days and in ancient times”: London, 1796.

King’s College, Cambridge, 549

Kingsley, Charles (at Plotinus of Alexandria), 534

Kingsley and Silliman, “An account of meteoric stones ...” (Phil. Mag., XXX. 232, 1808; Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., O.S. vi., Pt. II. 1818).

Kin-Koung-yuan, the name of the magnetic cars first made in A.D. 806–820, 27, 28

Kinnersley, Ebenezer (1711–1778), 221–223, 228, 234, 320, 367, 379;

“New experiments in electricity” (Phil. Trans. for 1763); “On some electrical experiments with charcoal” (Phil. Trans. for 1773).

“Kiobenhaven Selskab. Skrifter som udi ... ere Tremlagde,” 1745.

Kippingius, Henricus (d. 1678), “Antiq. Rom. de Exped. Mar.,” 5.

See p. 32 of Moreri, L., “Grand Dictionnaire ...,” Vol. V.

Kippis, Andrew, “Biographia Britannica”: London, 1793.

Kirby, Thomas, “Analysis of electricity and fire ...,” 1777.

Kircher, Athanasius (1601–1680), 5, 18, 53, 63, 120–121, 125, 130, 146, 160;

“Ars magnetis ... prodigiosis effectibus magnetis,” 1631; “Magnes, sive de arte magnetica,” 1641, 1643, 1654; “Prælusiones magneticæ” (Pogg. I. 1259), 1645; “Magneticum naturæ regnum,” 1667. See pp. 32–33, 63 of Moreri, L., “Grand Dictionnaire ...,” Vol. V.

Kirchhoff—Kirchoff—Gustav Robert (1824–1877), Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand (1821–1894), and Siemens, Ernst Werner (1816–1892), “Verhandlungen der Kgl. Preussischen Akademie ...”: Berlin, 1880. An important paper on lightning conductors.

Kirchhoff—Kirchoff—Nicolaus Anton Johann (1725–1800), “Zarüstung, die Wirkung ...” (Gött. Mag., T. I. 1780, St. ii. pp. 322–326).

Kirchmaier, Georg Caspar (1635–1700), “De fulmine et tonitru,” 1659; “De luce, igne ac perennibus lucernis”: Viteberg, 1676, 1677 (Miscell. Acad. Nat. Cur. 1677 and 1685, Pogg. I. 1261, 1676–1693).

Kirchmaier, Sebastian, “De filis meteoricis ...”: Viteberg, 1666.

Kirchmaier, Theodor, “De virgula divinatrice” (Pogg. I. 1262), 1678, 401

Kirchner, Carl (at Plotinus of Alexandria), 534

Kirkringius—Kirckring—Theodor “... spicilegium anatomicum,” 147

Kirkwood, Daniel, “Meteoric Astronomy,” 1867.

Kirwan, Richard (1733–1812), 263 (Phil. Mag., XXXIV. 247, 1809).

Kirwanian Society of Dublin, 418, 419

Kjobenhavn, “Nyt bibliothek fer physik ...,” 453, 455

Kjobenhavn, “Oversigt over det ... forhandlinger ...,” 453, 454

Klaproth, Julius (1783–1835), “Lettre à Mr. de Humboldt sur l’invention de la boussole”: Paris, 1834, 1, 3, 5, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 43, 54, 56, 61, 69, 72, 77, 115, 153

Klaproth, Martin Heinrich (1743–1817), 315;

“Des masses pierreuses et métalliques tombées de l’atmosphère” (Mém. de l’Acad. R. de Berlin, for 1803; Gehlen, Jour. f. Chem. v. Physik, VIII. 1809).

Klein, G., 284, 305, 326, 385 (Mém. de la Soc. de Haarlem, Vol. I.).

Klein, S., “Dissertatio” (at Avicenna), 40

Kleist, E. C. von (at Plotinus of Alexandria), 534

Kleist, Ewald Georg von (d. 1748), inventor of the Leyden phial. [See note in Ronalds’ Catalogue, p. 268, also Nos. 323 and 460 of the Catalogue of the Wheeler Gift, edited by Wm. D. Weaver. See likewise the Cunæus entry herein], 173–175

Klenke (at Humboldt, F. H. A., A.D. 1799), 335

Klindworth, J. A., 249

Klingenstierna—Klingensternia—Samuel, Swedish mathematician (1689–1765); “Dissertatio de electricitate,” 1740, 1742; “Tal om de naysta zön vid electriciteten,” 1755, 187

Klingenstierna, S., and Brande, W. T., “Dissertatio de magnetismo artificiale,” 1752.

Klinkosch, Joseph Thaddäus (1734–1778), 274, 387

(“Mém. de l’Acad. de Prague,” III. 218).

Kloerich, F. W., “Versuche über d. Wirkungen d. Magnets ...”: Göttingen, 1765, 246

Kluge, Karl Alexander Ferdinand, animal magnetism: Amsterdam, 1812 (in “Proeve eener voorstellung ...”).

Klugel, Georg Simon (1739–1812), 326

Knight, Charles, Cyclopædia (1791–1873). See also English Cyclopædia, Imperial Cyclopædia, Penny Cyclopædia, Mechanical Dictionary, 4, 11, 18, 27, 29, 31, 56, 57, 59, 66, 69, 148, 277, 284, 335, 397, 440, 446, 475

Knight, Gowin (1713–1772), 180, 190, 265, 272, 276 (Phil. Trans., XLIII. 161, 361; XLIV. 656).

Knockenhauer, Karl Wilhelm (b. 1805), 476

(Sitzungsberichten d. Wien Acad. I. 1852; XV. 1855; XXVII. 1857), “Uber die gesetze des magnetismus nach Ampère’s theorie” (Poggendorff Annalen, XXXIV. 481).

Knox, Dr. Robert (at Bancroft, E. N., A.D. 1769), 230

Koate, President of the London College of Surgeons, 304

Kobell, Franz von (b. 1803), “Die Galvanographie ...,” 1842, 1846 (Schweigg. Journ., LXIV. 1832; Gelehrt Anzeig d. Münch. Acad. 1834, 1843, 1850).

Kœnen, Hendrik Jakob (at Grotius, Hugo), 518

Kœnio, H., “Fulminum theoria meteor ...,” 1631, 553

Koestlin—Koeslin—Carl Heinrich, “Examen ... effectus magnetis ...,” 1813, 243

Kohl, Fred. Georg (at Brugmans, Anton, A.D. 1778), 255

Kohl, Dr. Johann Georg, collection of early maps, 62, 63, 533, 562

Kohlrausch, R. H. (Pogg. Annal., LXXII. 1847 to XCVIII. 1856); “Theory of the electric residue in the Leyden Jar”: London, 1854.

Kohlrausch, R. H., and Weber, Wm. Ed., 489; “Elektrodynamische Maasbestimmungen ...,” 1856.

Kohlreif, G. A. (at Lavoisier, A. L., A.D. 1781), 262

“Kön. baïerische akademie der wissenschaften,” 383

“Kongl. svenska vetenskaps Academien,” Handlingar, Stockholm, p. 168, 453

Konversations-Lexikon. See Brockhaus, Meyers, “Conversations.”

Kopp, J. H., “Dissertatio ... causis combustionis spontaneæ in corpore humano pactæ,” 1800.

Koten, J. H. van, “De galvanische stroom ...”: Amsterdam, 1856.

Koupho, Chinese physicist, discourse on the loadstone, 23

Krafft, Georg Wolfgang (1701–1754), is the author of “Prælectiones in physicam theoreticam,” “Observationes meteorologicæ ...,” “De viribus attractionis magneticæ experimenta,” 140, 308, 554

Krafft, Wolfgang Ludwig (1743–1814), 141, 249, 257, 308, 402;

“Tentamen theoriæ electrophori,” 1778 (Novi Comment. Acad. Petropol., XV. 586; XVII. 695; XIX. 610; Acta Petrop., 1778).

Krais, J., translator of Lucanus’ “Pharsalia,” 140

Kramer, G. E., Über telegraphen—schreib apparate, 1851 (Dingler’s Polytech. Journ., CXIX. and CXXI. for 1851).

Kramer, G. E., and Belli, Giuseppe, “Sulla produzione dell’ Ozono ...,” 1844, 1845.

Kratzenstein, Christian Gottlieb (1723–1795), 170–172, 213;

“Theoria electricit. more geometrico explicata”: Halle, 1746.

Krayenhoff, Cornelius Rudolph Theodor van (1758–1840), and Van Troostwijk, A. P., “De l’appl. de l’électricité ...,” 1788, 385

Kreil, Karl (b. 1798), “Jahrbücher ... für Meteorologie und Erdmagnetismus von Kreil,” “Magnetische und geographische ...,” 1846, 1855, 1862 (Sitzungsberichte d. Wien Acad., III. 1849; IV. 1850; VIII. and IX. 1852; XXXVI., No. 16).

Kries, Friedrich Christian (1768–1849), “Von d. magnet. Erscheinungen,” 1827.

Krische, August Bernhard (at Heraclides), 519

Kruger, Georg (at Dalton, John, A.D. 1793), 308

Kruger, Johann Gottlob (1715–1759), 174;

“Diss. de electricitatis Musschenbroekianæ ...,” 1756.

Krunitz, Johann Georg (1728–1796), 298, 326, 385, 556;

“Verzeichnis der vornehmsten schriften der electricität und den electrischen curen,” 1769.

Krunitz—Kirtz—Johann Georg (1728–1796), 298, 385

Krziwaneck, J., “De electricitate ...,” 1839, 328

Ktesias. See Ctesias.

Kuhlmann, Quirinus (1652–1689), “Kircheriana de arte magna sciendi ...”: London, 1681.

Kuhn (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 386

Kuhn—Kuehn—Karl (1816–1869), “Handbuch der angewandten elektricitätslehre ...”: Leipzig, 1866, 264, 385, 413, 420

Kuhn—Kuehn—Karl Gottlob (1754–1840), “Traité de l’électricité,” 1771; “Die nuest. Entdeckungen ... elektricität ...,” 1796, 1797.

Kung-foo-Whing is said to have invented a method of transmitting sound through wires by the thumthsein, A.D. 968, 28

Kupffer—Kupfer—Adolpte Theodor (b. 1799), “Annales de l’Observatoire physique central de l’empire de Russie ...,” 1850–1859.

Kupffer—Kupfer—D., and Keferstein, W. (at Shaw, John, A.D. 1791), 300

L

La Beaume, Michael, “Du galvanisme”: Paris, 1828, 330, 385

“La Bible” of Guyot de Provins, 30

La Boissière, “Notice sur les travaux ...,” 10

Laborde, Jean Baptiste de (d. 1777), “Le clavecin électrique,” 1761, 555

La Caille (at Lambert, J. H., A.D. 1766–1776), 225

Lacépède, Bernard Germain Etienne de la Ville, Comte de (1756–1825), “Essai sur l’électricité naturelle et artificielle,” 2 Vols. 1781, 273, 556

Lachmann, M. (at Haüy, René, A.D. 1787), 288

La Condamine, Charles Marie de (1701–1774), 165

La Coste, Christophile de, 516

La Croix, Paul, “Science and literature of the middle ages,” 54, 540

Lacque, Du (at Milly, N. C. De Thy, A.D. 1771), 235

Lactantius, Lucius Cœlius Firmianus (died c. A.D. 325–326), “Divinarum Institutionum,” 523–525

Lacy, H. de, “Du galvanisme médical...,” 1849, 330

Laet, Jan de (1593–1640), “De gemmis et lapidibus,” 1647, 17

“La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire Bibliographique des Savants,” par Joseph M. Quérard, 59

Lagos, Vincente Rodriguez de (sixteenth to seventeenth century), 69

La Grande Encyclopédie. See Larousse, Pierre, also Berthelot, M. P. E.

Lagrange, Joseph Louis, Comte de, Membre de l’Institut, F.R.S. (1736–1813), 116, 133, 224, 318, 409, 462.

See Wundt, Wilhelm, “Philosophische Studien,” Index, pp. 35–36.

Lagrange, La Place, etc., “Rapport sur un nouveau télégraphe des citoyens Bréguet, L. F. C., et Bétancourt”: Paris, 1798.

La Grave—Lagrave, 304, 419;

“Expériences galvaniques...,” (Journal de Physique, an XI, pp. 159, 233, 472).

La Hire, Philippe de, “...New sort of magnetical compass...,” (Phil. Trans. for 1687, p. 344), 141, 144, 145, 148, 268

Lalande—La Lande—Joseph Jérome le François de (1732–1807), 95, 233, 300, 301, 477

(Journal des Savants, Nov. 1792); “Abrégé de l’astronomie.”

See “Bibliographie Astronomique.”

“La Lumière Electrique,” publication commenced in Paris during 1879, vii, 24, 140, 154, 199, 208, 224, 269, 361, 416, 422, 455, 470, 476, 481, 499

Lamanon, Robert de Paul, Chevalier de (1752–1787), 250

Lamartillière (at Aldini, G., A.D. 1793), 305

Lamballe. See Jobert de Lamballe.

Lambert, A. J. (at Chladni, E. F. F., A.D. 1794), 314

Lambert, Alexandre, “Historique de la télégraphie ... ses systèmes divers”: Paris, 1862.

Lambert, Johann Heinrich (1728–1777), 156, 220, 224–225, 309, 315, 444

Lambeth Palace, 329

Lamé, Gabriel (b. 1795), “Cours de physique de l’Ecole Polytechnique,” 2 Vols. 1837, 195

La Méthérie, Jean Claude de (1743–1817), 261, 270, 281–282, 299, 303, 435

(Journal de Physique, XLII. 252; LIII. and LIV.; Annali di Chim. di Brugnatelli, XIX. 156, 1802).

Lamirault, H., et Cie., 14, 80

Lamont, Johann (1805–1879), 71, 233, 275;

“Handbuch des magnetismus” (Allgem. Encyclop. der Physik, XV. 1867); “Annalen für meteorologie ...”: Munchen, 1842; “Magnetismus der erde”: Berlin, 1846.

Lamotte-Fouqué, Frederic Henri Charles, Baron de (1777–1843), 75

Lampadius, Wilhelm August (1772–1842), “Versuche und Beobachtungen über die elektricität ...,” 1793, 1804.

“Lamp of Life,” 104

Lamy, François (1636–1711), “Conjectures physiques ...,” 1689.

Lana-Lanis—Franciscus de—Lana Terzi—Pertius de Lanis (1631–1687), 53, 110, 554.

See p. 718, Cates’ Dictionary.

“La Nature,” 171, 260

“Lancet,” 97

Lancetti, Vincenzio, “Biographia Cremonese”: Milano, 1819–1822, 71

Landnama-Bok—Landnamabok, 28

Lando. See Mongiardini.

Landriani, G. B., “Nova electricitatis theoria ...,” 1755, 555

Landriani, Marsiglio (d. 1816 ...), 278, 284;

“On an improved electrophorus” (Scelta d’Opuscoli, 12 mo., XIX. 73, 1776); (Mayer’s Samml. “Phys. Aufsäge der Gesellsch. Böhmischer Naturf,” III.) Letters from Van Marum in 1789 and 1791.

Lane, Timothy (1734–1807), 228, 282;

“On the magnetic attraction of oxides of iron” (Phil. Mag., XXIII. 253); Description of Mr. Lane’s electrometer (Phil. Trans., LVII. 451, 1768).

Lang, Andrew, “Sagas of the Kings of Norway,” 115

Lang, Victor von (Sitzungb. Wien. Acad., XXXI. No. 18, 1858; LIX. 1869).

Langbein, Dr. Geo., “A complete treatise on the electro-deposition of metals,” 24

Langenbucher, Jacob (at Gay-Lussac, J. L., A.D. 1804), 389

Langius, Joannes, “Epistolorum medicinalium,” 1589, 17, 27, 82

Langworthy, Charles Cunningham, “View of the Perkinian electricity,” 1798, 328

Lanis, P. Francisci Tertii de, 53, 110

La Pérouse—Jean François de Galaup, Comte de (b. 1741), 249

La Péyrouse—Pérouse—Philippe (1744–1818), “Description d’un météore ...” (Toulouse Academy, 1^ere Série IV. 189, 1790), 250

Lapide Bononiensi: Mentzel, Chn., 1673; Montalbani, Ovido, 1634; Licetus, 1640; Mentzel, 554

Lapis electricus of Linnæus, 13, 153

Lapis fulminaris, 218

Lapis heracleus, 15

Lapis herculaneus, 15

Lapis lyncurius, 13, 218

La Place, Capt. Cyrille Pierre Théodore (b. 1793), 462

La Place, Pierre Simon, Marquis de (1749–1827), 96, 141, 247, 261, 262, 318, 344, 349, 377, 378, 386, 409, 416, 426, 459, 460–462, 463, 475, 480.

See Wundt, Wilhelm, “Philosophische Studien,” Index, pp. 35–36.

La Place, P. S., and Lavoisier, A. L. (Mémoires de Paris for 1781), 462

Larcher, Cassius, Daubancourt, and Zanetti, F. M., 306 (Ann. de Chim., XLV. 195).

Lardner, Dionysius (1793–1859), “Manual of electricity ...”; “Handbooks of Electricity, etc.”; “Lectures on Science and Art”; Cabinet Library, 12 Vols.; Cabinet Cyclopædia, 134 Vols., 8, 10, 80, 115, 138, 157, 207, 227, 336, 339, 347, 379, 390, 392, 417, 455, 473, 476

Lardner, Nathaniel (1684–1768), “Credibility of the gospel history ...,” 25

La Rive, Auguste Arthur De (b. 1801), “Recherches sur la cause de l’électricité ...”; “Essai historique”; “Traité d’électricité ...”; “A treatise on electricity ...,” 1853, 1856, 1858; “Archives de l’électricité; supplément à la Bibliothèque Universelle De Genève” (Ann. de Chimie, XXXVII. 225, 1828; Phil. Mag. or Annals, III. 151, also the Quarterly Journal, XXXV. 161, 1828; Phil. Trans, for 1847; pt. 1, 10, 107, 139, 140, 185, 259, 263, 292, 300, 305, 308, 321, 330, 347, 352, 359, 365, 384, 385, 387, 391, 406, 407, 418, 420, 434, 441, 454, 472, 473, 476, 491, 495

La Rive and Marcet (Geneva, Soc. de Phys., VI. 503, 1833).

Larousse, Pierre Athanase (1817–1875), “Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XIX^e siècle ... Biographie, etc.”; “Revue Encyclopédique,” 2, 10, 21, 38, 41, 45, 64, 65, 68, 69, 80, 81, 91, 94, 97, 98, 103, 105, 106, 107, 109, 114, 117, 120, 121, 122, 127, 128, 130, 132, 148, 149, 158, 190, 253, 255, 259, 282, 286, 288, 289, 294, 295, 296, 306, 324, 350, 353, 359, 361, 367, 376, 383, 385, 386, 387, 402, 408, 409, 414, 420, 424, 428, 456, 464, 471, 483, 498, 501, 502, 505, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 519, 520, 521, 525, 526, 527, 529, 531, 532, 533, 534, 536, 538, 539, 540

Larousse, Pierre, “La Grande Encyclopédie,” 31 Vols. 1886–1903; “Le Nouveau Larousse” (Claude Augé), 1, 2, 14, 20, 31, 33, 34, 38, 39, 41, 44, 79, 80, 81, 91, 94, 97, 117, 122, 141, 148, 166, 170, 196, 208, 211, 236, 259, 262, 264, 370, 400, 434, 506, 509, 511, 513, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520, 521, 526, 528, 530, 531, 532, 540

Larrey, Dominique Jean, Baron de (1776–1842) (Acad. des Sciences, XVIII. 417).

Larrey, Felix Hippolyte, Baron de (1810–1852), 284

La Rue, W. de, “On the structure of electro-precipitated metals” (Journal of the Chemical Society, article CXXX. p. 300).

Las Casas, Barthélémy de (1474–1566), 66

Lassell, J. and C. (at Humboldt, Alex von), 335

Lassone, Jean Joseph Marie François de, 263, 385 (Recueil sur l’électricité medicale, I. 245, 1763).

Lasthenia, one of the most distinguished disciples of Plato (born c. 420 B.C.), 543

Latini, Brunetto (1230–1294), “Les livres dou Trésor,” XIX.; “Il Tesoro,” 1474. Ronalds says it “contains one of the oldest documents on the knowledge in Europe of the compass.”

Laugier, André (1770–1832), on meteoric stones (Phil. Mag., XXVI. II; LVI. 157; Annales de Ch., LVIII. 261; Ann. de Ch. et de Phys., XIII. 441).

Laurencin, Paul, “Le Télégraphe,” 12, 264

Lausanne, Mémoires de la Société Physique de Lausanne, 91, 293

Lautz, G. (at Lynschoten, J. H. van), 526

Laverine (at Jadelot, J. F. N., A.D. 1799) (Opusc. Scelti, XXII. 132, 1803), 330

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743–1794), 236, 261–262, 263, 297, 355, 386, 416, 426, 429, 461, 462;

“Opuscules physiques et chimiques,” 1774, 1801.

See La Place, P. S., “Traité élémentaire de chimie ... dans un ordre nouveau ...,” 2 Vols. 1789, 1801.

Law, Alexander (at A.D. 1808), 400

Law, Dr. (at A.D. 1675), 133

Lawrence, R. M., 330, 386, “On the application of electricity ...,” 1853; “Galvanism, its medical application and uses,” 1857.

Lawrence, Sir Edwin Durning, xii

Leader, John Temple (at Kendall, A.), 523

Lebailif—Lebaillif (at Faraday, Michael, A.D., 1821), 494

Le Bas. See Dictionnaire Encyclopédique de la France.

Le Blanc, Richard (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803, and at Cardanus, H.), 385, 507

Le Bouvier-Desmortiers, Urbain René Thomas (1739–1827), 410.

See Desmortiers.

Le Breton, “Histoire” (at St. Elmo, A.D. 304), 24, 229

Le Breton, Mme. J., “Hist. et Appl. de l’électricité,” 1884, 268, 454

Le Brun (at Journal des Savants), 551

Le Brun, Pierre (1661–1729), 148, 401

Le Cat, Claude Nicolas (1700–1768), “Mémoire sur l’électricité,” 1746, 128, 178

Lechman, M. (1707–1778), on the tourmaline (at Æpinus, F. M. U. T., A.D. 1759), 218, 287

Leclerc, Jean Georges Louis, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), “Histoire naturelle,” 127 Vols.; “Histoire des Minéraux,” 5 Vols.; “Théorie de la Terre,” 1, 7, 30, 33, 37, 55, 60, 61, 161, 200, 218, 259, 299, 320, 332, 359

Leclerc, Lucien, “Histoire de la médecine arabe,” 541

Lecluse—Lescluse—Charles de (1524–1609).

Le Comus. See Le Dru.

“Le Cosmos,” Paris, 57, 115, 134, 140, 209, 264, 302, 365, 401, 440

“Le Courrier du Livre,” 32

Lectures on Electricity. See Sturgeon, William.

Le Dru, Nicholas Philippe—called Le Comus, Le Camus, also Cosnier (1731–1807), 224, 229, 235, 385;

Cosnier (Le Dru), Maloet, Darcet and others are named in report made in Paris during 1783.

Lee, Sidney. See “Dictionary of National Biography.”

Leeson, “Experiments ... electro-chemical decomposition of water ...” (Ann. of Elect., IV. 238), 337

Lefevre-Gineau, Louis (1751–1829), 389

Lefroy, J. H. (at Dalton, John, A.D. 1793), 308 (Phil. Mag., 3rd Series, XXXVI. 457, 1850).

Lefroy, J. H., and Richardson, Sir John, “Magnetical and Meteorological Observations ...”

“Le Globe,” 412

Le Grave (at Jadelot, J. F. N., A.D. 1799), 330

Legros and Onimus (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 386

Le Hardy, Major Charles, 399

Lehmann, Johann Gottlob (d. 1767), “Abhandlung von Phosphoris,” “Von magnet Theilen im Sande” (Mém. de la Soc. de Haarlem, XI. Pt. I. 1769), 273

Lehmann, Otto, of Karlsruhe, “Die elektrischen lichterscheinungen ...”

Lehot, C. J., “Observations sur le galvanisme et le magnétisme” (Jour. de Phys., an 9, LII. 135, 1801), 270, 348, 355, 419

Lehre von der Electricität. See Wiedemann, Gustav.

Lehre von Galvanismus und Electro-Magnetismus. See Wiedemann, Gustav.

Lehrbuch der Allgemeine Chemie. See Ostwald, F. W.

Lehrbuch der Chemie, 5 Vols. Leipzig, 1848. See Berzelius, J. J. F. von.

Lehrbuch der Komischen Physik. See Muller, J. H. J.

Lehrbuch der Meteorologie. See Kaemtz, L. F.

Lehrbuch der Physik und Meteorologie. See Müller-Pouillet.

Lehrbuch der Physik zum Gebrauche: Mannheim, 1836. See Eisenlohr, W.

Lehrbuch der Physiologie des Mens Körpers: Erlangen, 312

Leibnitz—Leibniz—Gottfried Wilhelm von (1646–1716), 147, 152

Leidenfrost, Ludwig Christoph, “... Miscellanea experimenta circa electricitatem,” 1781.

Leipzig—Lipsiæ—“Acta Eruditorum ...,” “Indices generales ...,” 117 Vols., 306

Leipzig, “Allgemeines Magazin der Natur-Kunst und Wissenschaft.”

Leipzig, “Commentarii de rebus in scientia naturali et medicina gestis,” von C. G. Ludwig, 37 Vols. Lipsiæ, 1752–1798, 130, 285

Leipzig Society. “Abhandlungen ... Wissenschaften.”

Leipzig University, 162

Leitch, John, “Hieroglyphic Essays and Correspondence,” 396

Leithead, William, “Electricity; its nature, operation ...,” 1837, 29, 129, 135, 149, 153, 240, 241, 376, 383, 443

Leland—Leyland—John (1506–1552), 42

Lelandri, Contessi G. (Ann. Reg. Lomb. Veneto), 347

Lelewell, Joachim. See Géographie de Moyen-Âge, 62

Lelong, Le P. Jacques, “Bibliotheca sacra,” 1709, 538

Le Lorrain de Vallemont. See Vallemont.

Lemaire—Le Maire (Mém. Acad. de Paris, 1745, 1750), 190

Leméry, Louis (1667–1743), exhibits the tourmaline—lapis electricus, 153, 218, 442, 465

Leméry, Nicholas (at Leméry, Louis, A.D. 1717), 153

Lemoine—Moreau. See Dureau.

“Le Moniteur,” 359, 380

“Le Moniteur Scientifique.” See Quesneville, Dr. G. A.

Lemnius—Lemmeus—Lieven—Levinus (1505–1568), “De miraculis occultis naturæ ...,” first edition, Antwerpiæ, 1559 (“The Secret miracles of nature,” wherein he described the mariner’s compass), 5, 87, 538, 553

Lemonnier—Le Monnier—Louis Guillaume (Mém. de Paris, 1746, 1752; Philos. Trans. for 1746, p. 290).

Lemonnier—Le Monnier—Pierre Claude Charles (1715–1799), “Lois du magnétisme ... dans les différentes parties du globe terrestre ...”: Paris, 1776–1778, 176, 177–178, 200, 232, 320 (Mém. de Paris, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1777–1779).

Le Monnier, according to Brit. Museum Catalogue; Nouvelle Biographie Générale, 1859, XXX. 621; Poggendorff Handwörterbuch.

Lemonnier, according to Encycl. Britannica, 1911, XVI. 416; Biographie Universelle, XXIV. 95–97; New Intern. Encycl., 1915, XIII. 765; Dict. of Gen. Biogr., 1881, p. 744.

Not mentioned in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, 1883, Band 18, 1906, Band 51, or in either Meyer’s or Brockhaus’ Konversations-Lexikon.

Lemoyne des Essarts, Nicholas Toussaint, “Siècles Littéraires,” 190

Lemprière, John (b. 1824), English author, “Bibliotheca Classica,” 1788, 518

Lemström, K. S., Professor at Helsingfors. See Lenström.

Lenain de Tillemont. See Tillemont.

Lenglet du Fresnoy, Nicole (1674–1755), “Methode ...,” 1772, Vol. XIV. contains an outline of the history of science and art.

Lenoble—Le Noble—Mr. L’Abbé, Chanoine de la Collégiale de Vernon sur Seine en Normandie, “Aimants artificiels d’une très grande force” (Mém. de Paris, 1772, Hist., p. 17), 26, 253.

See Thouret, also Ronalds’ Catalogue, p. 296.

“Le Nouveau Larousse illustré,” par Claude Augé, 7 Vols. 1901–1904.

Lenström, Selim (at Aurora Borealis), 139, 179, 180

Lenz, Heinrich Friedrich Emil (1804–1865), 423

(Mém. et Bull. de l’Acad. de St. Petersb., 1831, 1836–1839, 1844–1858; Pogg. Ann., XXXI. for 1834, XXXIV. for 1835).

Lenz, R. (Mém. et Bull. de l’Acad. de St. Petersb., 1862, 1866).

Leonardus, Camillus (fl. sixteenth century A.D.), 17, 26, 57, 73, 82;

“Speculum lapidum,” 1502, 1516 (“The mirror of stones,” 1750).

See Græsse, “Trésor de livres ...,” Vol. IV. p. 165.

Leopold of Tuscany, 96

Leopoldino-Carolino. See Breslau.

Leotaud—Leotaudus, Leotandus—Vincent (1595–1672), 120, 160, 554;

“R. P. Vincentii Leotaudi ... magnetologia ... magnetis philosophia,” 1668.

Leprince—Le Prince, “Nouvelle théorie de l’aurore boréale ...,” 1817, 308

Le Roi—Le Roy—and D’Arcy, 177

Le Roux de Lincy, 34

Leroux—Le Roux—François Pierre, “Etudes sur les machines electro-magnétiques ...” (Ann. de Chim. et Phys., Ser. IV. Vol. X. pp. 201–291). Deals with the Peltier and Thomson effects.

Le Roy—Le Roi—Jean Baptiste (d. 1800), 177, 198, 208, 240, 273, 302, 303, 320

Lesage—Le Sage—Georges Louis, Jr. (1724–1803), “Traité de Physique ...,” 209, 241–242, 255

Lesage—Le Sage—Georges Louis, Sr. (1676–1759), “Des corps terrestres et des météores,” 242

Leslie, Sir John (1766–1832), 134, 192, 225, 295–296, 315, 440, 479, 498;

“Observations on electrical theories,” 1824.

See Rumford Medal. “Treatises on natural philosophy ...” (Phil. Mag., XLII. 44, 1813).

“Les Mondes,” 248, 365. See Moigno.

Le télégraphe. See Laurencin, Paul.

Letheby, H., “An account ... gymnotus electricus ...,” 1842, 299

Letronne, Jean Antoine, “Mém. de l’Acad. des Inscriptions,” 533

Leucippus, Greek philosopher, disciple of Zeno (fl. fifth century B.C.), 512, 543

Leupold, electrical machine, 150

Leurechon, Jean, French poet (1591–1670). See Van Etten.

Leuwenhoeck, Anthony van (Phil. Trans., XIX. for 1695–1697, p. 512), 245, 246

Levasseur (mentioned at Agrippa, H. C.), 502

Lewes, George Henry, “History of philosophy from Thales to Comte,” 534

Lewis, Meriwether, on the zodiacal light, 141

Lexell, Anders Johann (1740–1784).

Leyden Jar discovered by E. G. von Kleist, Nov. 4, 1745, 173

Leyden Jar principle employed by Bozolus for transmitting intelligence, 226

Leyden University, 169, 518

Leyes de las Partidas. See Alfonso el IX.

Leymarie, Alex. (1732–1796) “Une nouvelle ... tourmaline,” 1850 (Toulouse Acad. 3^e Série), 287–288

Liais, E., “Pendule electro-magnétique” (Mém. de la Soc. de Cherbourg, II. 294, IV. 205).

Libanius, Greek Sophist (A.D. 314–393).

See Nouv. Biogr. de Hœfer, 1860, XXI. 110–113.

Libavius, Andreas (1560–1616), 124; “Alchymia ... medico physico chemico,” 1606.

Libes, Antoine (1752–1832), 131, 277, 353;

“Théorie de l’électricité ...”; “Histoire philosophique des progrès de la physique”; “Traité élémentaire de physique” (electricity by pressure); “Dictionnaire de physique.”

Library of American Biography. See Jared Sparks.

Library of Literary Criticism. See Moulton, Ch. W.

Library of Useful Knowledge, 103, 204, 219, 220, 226, 228, 256, 264, 278, 280, 282, 287, 290, 380, 423, 431, 455, 458, 460, 467, 471, 475, 476, 481, 498

“Library, The,” 122

Libri Carrucci dalla Sommaia (Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone) (1803–1869), “Histoire des sciences mathématiques en Italie depuis la renaissance des lettres jusqu’à la fin du 17^e siècle,” 4 Vols. 1835, 1838–1848, 1865; “Catalogues ...”; Nouvelle Biogr. Gén. V. 922; 16, 23, 30, 33, 35, 43, 44, 45, 53, 55, 57, 61, 64, 66, 75, 97, 106, 110, 114, 116, 117, 126, 140, 299, 506, 510, 515, 522, 524, 525, 527, 531

Liceti, Fortunio (1577–1657).

Licetus, Fortunatus (1577–1657), “Litheosphorus ... lapide Bononiensi lucern ...,” 1640.

Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph (1744–1799). Discovered the double electrophorus, as explained in his “De novo methodo ...”: Göttingen, 1779; “An Dr. Exleben ...” (Gött. Mag., J. i., S. ii. 216–220, 1780), 250

Lichtenberg, Ludwig Christian (1738–1812).

Lichtenberg, L. C., and Michaelis, G. A., concerning Solomon’s temple, 10

Lichtenberg, L. C., and Voigt, J. H. (1751–1823), “Magazin für das neueste aus der Physik ...,” 249, 256, 257, 280, 313, 316, 431, 449

Lieberkuhn—Lieberkyn—Dr. Johann Nathaniel, of the Berlin Academy (1711–1756), makes known Kleist’s discovery of the Leyden Jar, 173, 174

Liebig, J., and Kopp, J. H., “Jahresbericht über ... chemie, physik, etc.”

Liebig, Justus—Justin—Freiherr von, 491, 494

(Poggendorff, J. C., “Handwörterbuch,” pp. 1455–1460); “Handwörterbuch der ... chemie, von Liebig, Poggendorff, Wöhler, etc.”; “Annalen der pharmacie....”

Lientandi, “Magnetologia”: Lugdini Bat., 1668.

Light, finite velocity of, discovered by Rœmer, Olaus, 157

Lightning and thunder attracted and directed by the ancients, 9, 294

Lightning and thunder inoculated into clouds by bombs, 368

Lightning, many sources recognised by Etruscans and Romans, 9

Lightning-rod Conference, Report of, 198, 199

Lightning rods on ancient temples, 600 B.C., 9

Liliencron, Rochus, 34

Lilliehöök, C. B., “Voyages ... in Scandinavia,” 1842, 139

Linari-Santi, P. (1777–1858), 298, 337;

“Sur les propriétés électriques ... de la torpille”: Genève, 1837–1838; “Sull elettricità animale”: Napoli, 1843 (Bibl. Univ., 1837–1838; Fusinieri, Ann. Sc. R. Lomb.-Veneto, 1839; Bibl. Ital., Vol. XCII. 258; Rendiconto dell’ Acad. di Napoli, II. 1843).

Linari-Santi, P., and Guili, G. (Ann. del Reg. Lomb.-Veneto, IX. 200, 1839).

Linari-Santi, P., and Palmieri, Luigi (Rendiconto dell’ Acad, di Napoli, III. 1844).

Linck, Johann Wilhelm (1760–1805), “De raga torpedine,” 1788, 298

Lincy, Le Roux de, and Tisserand, L. M., 34

Lind, James (d. 1794), 331

Linden, Joannes Antonides van der, “De Scriptio Medicis,” 26, 508, 513, 517, 531

Line of no magnetic variation. See Columbus, Christopher, 65

Linguet, Simon Henri Nicholas (1736–1794), “Mémoire ... moyen d’établir des signaux par la lumière,” 1782, 265

Lining, Dr. John, 196, 320 (“Mém. de Paris,” 1755).

Linnæus—Linné—Carl von (1707–1778), “Flora Zeylanica” (on the tourmaline), 1747; (K. Schwed. Akad. Abh., XXIV. 291; VI. 93; VIII. 61; Acta Holminensio, XXIV. 292, 1762), 13, 153, 192, 288, 297, 385, 450, 451, 456

Linnean Society of New England, Transactions, 298

Linnstrom, H., “Schwedisches Bücher-Lexikon,” 1830–1865.

Lion, Moise, “Electricité statique, Histoire et recherches nouvelles”: Paris, 1868.

Lipenius, Martinus, “Navigatio Salomonis Ophiritica illustrata,” 1660, 33, 73, 87

Lippincott, Joshua Ballinger (1816–1886), “General Biographical Dictionary,” 470

Lisbon Academy, “Memorias da Acad. Real das Sciencas da Lisboa,” 12 Vols.

Lisieux College, 254

Lister, Dr. Martin (1638–1712), “Collection Académique,” 204, 288, 402, 548

Li-tchi-tchin, celebrated Chinese naturalist, 77

Literary and Philosophical Society, Manchester. See Manchester.

Literary Digest, 57

Literary Gazette, 412

Littré and Sainte Beuve, 476

Littré, M. E. (at Ampère, A. M., A.D. 1820), 476

“Living Authors” (at Gregory, George, A.D. 1796), 324

Livio Sanuto (fl. sixteenth century A.D.), “Geografia ... della bussola e dell’ Aguglia ...,” 1588, 65, 69, 114, 115

Livy. See Titus Livius (Phil. Trans., XLVIII., Pt. 1, p. 211).

Lloyd, Humphrey (b. 1800), 28, 138;

“A treatise on magnetism,”: London, 1874; “Remarks on the theory of the compound magnetic needle”; “Account of the Induction Inclinometer ...” (Trans. Royal Irish Acad., XVII. 1836; XIX, 1840 and 1841; XXI. 1843; XXII. 1849; XXIV. 1862; Proceedings Royal Irish Acad., 1848, 1850, 1853, 1861, 1862).

Lloyd, Sabine, and Ross, “Observations ... terrestrial magnetic force in Ireland” (Report of the British Association for 1835).

Loadstone. See Lodestone.

Lobe, W., “De vi corporum electrica,” 1743, 555

Lobb, Harry (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 386;

“A popular treatise on curative electricity ...,” 1867.

Locke, John (1792–1856), works of (at Kendall, Abram), 522 (Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., VI. 1839).

Locrian, The, 8

Loder, M. Juste Chrétien de (1753–1832), (at Pearson, George, A.D. 1797), 326, 333

Lodestone’s lifting power, 134, 159

Lodestone—Loadstone—first discovered at Magnesia in Lydia, 146.

See Magnet, Magnes. Its use in antiquity for directive purposes.

See Ferguson, also Barrow, Sir John, “Voyage en Chine,” 1805.

Lodestone, magnet, armed, 86, 100

Lodestones, different descriptions of, 13;

virtue of (Earl of Abercorn), 554

Lodge, Sir Oliver, “Pioneers of Science,” 462.

See Rumford Medal.

Lofft, Capel (Phil. Mag., LI. 109, 203, 1818), 314

Logan (Phil. Trans., 1735), 195

Lohier fils, “Globules lumineux,” 1746, 555

Lohmeir, P., “De fulmine,” 1676 (Pogg., I. 1491).

Lo-Luz—Lo-Looz—Robert de, “Recherches ... pour prouver le magnétisme universel,” 1788.

Lombardi, Antonio (b. 1768), “Storia della letteratura Italiana ...,” 6 Vols. (Mem. Soc. Ital., Vol. XX.), 330

Lombardo-Veneto (Venetian Lombardy Imperial Royal Institution).

See Istituto, Lombardy, Fusinieri, Giuli.

Lombardus, Petrus—Peter Lombard—Bishop of Lyons (fl. twelfth century A.D.), “Sententiarum, Libri IIII.,” 41.

See Joannes ab Incarnatione.

Lombardy—Lombardo-Veneto, “Giornale dell’ I.R. Istituto Lombardo di scienze, lettere ed arti, e Biblioteca Italiana,” 25 Vols.: Milano, 1841–1856, is the suite of the “Biblioteca Italiana,” which ran from 1816 to 1840. Memorie—also Atti—dell’ I.R. Istituto Lombardo di scienze, lettere ed arti, 1843–1848.

Lomond—Lomont—Claude Jean Baptiste (1749–1830), 285

Lomonosow—Remonozow—Michael Wassiljewitsch (1711–1765), 204

Lomonosow—Remonozow and Grischow, A. N. (1726–1760), “Orationes de meteoris electricis explicationes ...,” 1755.

London and Edinburgh Phil. Mag. and Journal of Science.

See Philosophical Magazine.

London Chemical Society, 394

London College of Surgeons, 178, 304

London, Edinburgh and Dublin Phil. Mag. and Journ. of Sc.

See Philosophical Magazine.

London Electrical Society, 468

London Encyclopædia, 22 Vols. 1839.

London Geological Society, 359, 371

London, Guy’s Hospital, 443

London Institution, 371, 372, 458

London Mechanics’ Register. See New London.

London Mining Journal, 498

London, Royal Astronomical Society, 433, 462

London, Royal Society. See Royal Society, London.

London. See Journal of the Society of Arts, Nicholson’s “Journal of Nat. Phil ...,” “Phil. Magazine ...,” “Electrical Society,” “Royal Society,” “Royal Institution,” “Pharmaceutical Journal.”

London University, 498

Long’s expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 259

Longfellow, Henry W., “Golden Legend,” “Evangeline,” 24, 260

Longinus, Cæsar, “Trinium magicum ...,” 1630, 553

Lonicerus, Janus—Lonicer, Joannes, 26, 553;

“Compendium de meteoris ex Aristotelo, Plinio et Pontano,” 1548; “In Dioscoridæ Anazarbei de re medica ...”

Lonmyer, C. See Loumeyer, C.

Loomis, Elias, Observations on magnetic dip—intensity—“The aurora borealis” (Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., New Series, VII. 1841, VIII. 1843, IX. 1846; Phil. Mag. for Nov. 1847), 140

Lopez de Gomara, Francisco, 211

Lor, M. de, 195, 200, 320, 416 (De Lor and Dalibard’s experiments, Ronalds’ Catalogue, p. 123).

Lorenzini, Stephani (at Shaw, George, A.D. 1791), 298

Lorgna, Antonio Maria (1736–1796), 253

(Opus. Scelti, IV. 235, 1781); “Lettera (al Toaldo) sur Parafulmini.”

Lorimer, Dr. John (1732–1795), “Essay on magnetism,” 1795, 30, 243, 281 (Phil. Trans., 1775).

Loritus, Henricus de Glaris—Gareanus, 535, 536

Lorraine, Duke of, 160

Lottin, Victor Charles (1795–1858), 139;

“Sur les aurores boréales” (Ann. Maritim, LIX. 1839).

Louis, Antoine (1723–1792), “Observations sur l’électricité ...,” 1747, 186

Louis IX, King of France, 56;

Louis XI, 538;

Louis XIII, 107;

Louis XIV, 130;

Louis XV., 229

Louise de Savoy, 502

Loumeyer, C. (at Montanus, Arias Benedictus), 528

Lous, Christian Karl (1724–1804), “Tentamina experimentorum ...”: Copenhagen, 1773

Louvre, Catalogue of manuscripts, 14

Lovejoy, B. G. (at Bacon, Sir Francis, A.D. 1620), 102

Lovering, Prof. Joseph, 498

Lovett—Lovet—Richard (1692–1780), “Subtil—Subtile—Medium Proved,” 133, 212–213, 229, 269

Lowenörn (at Aurora Borealis), 139;

“Uber den magnet ...,” 1802

Lower (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 385

Löwig, C. von, “Repertorium für organische chemie”: Zurich.

Lowndes, F., “Observations on medical electricity ...,” 1787, 385

Lowndes, William Thomas, “Bibliographer’s Manual of English Literature,” 4 Vols. 1834, 547, 548

Lowthorp, John. See Royal Society.

Loxodromes, 509

Lozeran du Fech, Louis Antoine (d. 1755), “Observation d’un phénomène céleste,” 1730 (“Mémoire de Trevoux” for 1730, 1732).

Luc, Jean André de—Deluc (1727–1817), 176, 249, 364, 388, 405, 417, 418, 419, 420, 428, 433, 434, 438, 440, 447;

“Traité élémentaire sur le fluide electrico-galvanique,” 2 Vols. 1804 (Phil. Mag., XLIV. 248, XLV. 97, 329, L. 392). One of his dry piles rings bells for over forty years, 405

Lucanus (A.D. 39–65), Marcus Annæus, “Pharsalia,” 140

Lucchesini, Signorè Marchese (at Walsh, John, A.D. 1773), 240

Lucretius, Titus Carus (99–56 B.C.), “De rerum natura” (The nature of things), 7, 14, 19, 21, 33, 73, 524, 544

Luderus, G., “De methodis ... declin. ... magnetis ...,” 1718, 554

Lüdicke—Ludecke—August Friedrich (1748–1822) (Gilbert Annalen, IX. 1801 and 1802; L. 1815, LXVIII. 1821).

Ludolff—Leudolff—Christian Friedrich (1707–1763), 170, 200, 320

(Mém. Acad. Roy. Berlin, 1744), 320

Ludwig, Christian Friedrich, “Scriptores ... minores ...,”: Lipsiæ, 1791–1795, 304, 327, 332

Ludwig, Christian Gottlieb. See Leipzig.

Ludwig, Christian Theophile (1709–1773).

Lughi (at Pearson, George, A.D. 1797), 326

Lullin, Amédæ—Amadeus (1695–1756), “Dissertatio physica de electricitate ...,” 1776, 226, 271

Lully—Lull—Raymundius Lullius (c. A.D. 1254–1315), 31–33, 505

Luloffs, Johannes (1711–1768) (at Dalton, John, A.D. 1793), 308;

“De aurora boreali ...,” 1731.

“Lumière Electrique.” See “La Lumière Electrique.”

Lunar diurnal magnetic variation, 267

Lunar volcanoes, 462

Lund and Muschmann, 446

Lundborg, J. M., “De electricitate atmospheræ,” 1791.

Lusitanus, Amatus, Joan Roderigo Amato (1511–1568), 27, 525, 528

Lusson, F., “Les origines de l’électricité”: La Rochelle, 1882.

Luther and Grotius, 519

Luther, Martin (1483–1546), 508

Lyly, John (c. 1554–1606), “Euphues,” 16

Lyncurium. See Lapis, 8, 13, 15, 17, 176.

See also Watson, Wm., 1759 (Phil. Trans., LI. 1759) and Napione, C. A. Q., 1795.

Lynschoten, Jan Huygan van (1563–1611), 525

Lyon, Rev. John (at Adams, George, A.D. 1785), 281

Lyons—Lyon (Lugduni), Academy of Sciences; Comptes Rendus, Historie, Mémoires, etc., 337;

Histoire de l’Acad. Royale des Sciences ... de Lyon, par T. B. Dumas, 1839.

Lyons—Lyon—College of, 163

Lyons—Lyon—Congrès scientifique. See Pétetin, J. H. D.

Lyons—Lyon—Société d’Etudes Scientifiques, Bulletin, etc.: Lyon, 1874, etc.

Lyons, T. A., Electro-magnetic phenomena, 54, 56

M

MacAdie, Alexander (at Electricity of the Atmosphere), 319

Macaire, J. F. (at Alexander Tilloch), 392

Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800–1859), “Essays,” 99, 102, 132

MacCrindle, author of “Ancient India,” as described by Ktesias, 10

MacCulloch, “Traités ... boussole”: Paris, 1853, 61

Macdonald, Lieut.-Col. John (1759–1831), method of telegraphing, 400, 442

MacGowan, George, 262

Macgregor, J. (“Journal of the Society of Arts,” May 20, 1859), 291

Machado, Barb., “Bibliotheca Lusitana,” 516, 531

Machiavelli, Nicolo (1469–1527), 114

Machines, electrical. See Electrical Machines.

Machometes Aractensis. See Albategnius, 527

MacKendrick, Dr. John Gray (at Kirwan, Richard), 263

MacKenzie, William. See “Imp. Dict. of Univ. Biography.”

MacMahon, Rev. John H., “Metaphysics of Aristotle,” 310

MacMillan, Walter G., “Treatise on electro-metallurgy,” 24

Macquer, Pierre Joseph (at Fourcroy, A. F. de), 354

Macrinus, M. Opelius (A.D. 164–218), 12

Macvey, Napier (1776–1847), 296

Madeira Arrais—Madeyra Arraez (Duarte). See Arrais.

Madison, Rev. James (1749–1812), 327, 328

Mädler—Maedler—Johann Heinrich von, “Geschichte der Himmelskunde,” 513

Madrid, Gazette de, 318

Maffei, Francisco Scipione de (1675–1755), 321, 505, 554

Magalotti—Magolotti—Lorenzo (1637–1712), Saggi Accad. del Cimento, 1666–1761.

“Magaz. Sc. de Göttingen,” 10

Magazin der neuesten ... reisebeschreibungen.

“Magazin encyclopédique ...,” par Millin de Grandmaison, Aubin Louis. See Rafn, C. G.

Magazin für das neueste aus der physik. See Lichtenberg and Voigt.

Magazin für naturvidenskaberne. See Christiana.

Magazin für ... naturkunden, von Voigt, J. H., 12 vols., Jena and Weimar, 380

Magazine of American History, 115

Magellan—Magalhaeus—Magalhäes—Ferdinand, commanded in 1520 the first expedition around the world, 67, 288.

[Magellan—Magalhaeus—Joào Hyazinthe, F.R.S., was a very prominent astronomical writer.]

Magendie, François, 325, 385

Maggiotto, F., upon a new electrical machine, 254

Magi: loadstone so called in their honour, 13

Magliabechiana Library at Florence, 57

Magliozzi, M., “Notizia ... bussola,” 61

Magne-crystallic action: Poisson, 1811, 411;

Faraday, at 1821, 495;

Tyndall, at Poisson, 1811, 411, and also in Phil., Mag. for 1851, 1856 and 1870.

Magnesian stone, 13

Magnet—loadstone—armed, 86, 100

Magnet—magnes—the loadstone. [See Chambers’ Cyclopædia, Vol. III.], 12–13, 145–146

Magnet and helix, experimental distinction between, 486

Magnet, applications for medical relief, 26

Magnet, artificial. See Hamilton, 159;

Knight, 180;

Antheaulme, Du Hamel, Le Maire, 190;

Michell, John, 191;

Canton, 206;

Æpinus, 217;

Gregory, 323

Magnet, elliptical. See Treméry, J. L., 324

Magnet, Ethiopian, said to repel iron. See Maiolus, “Dies Caniculares ...,” 1597, p. 781.

Magnet, filar suspension, first mentioned by Leonardus Camillus, “Speculum Lapidum,” 1610, p. 129

Magnet, first English work on the, Norman Robert, “The newe attractive,” 1592.

Magnet, its four virtues or operations, according to Sir Francis Bacon, 100

Magnet, its threefold power, attractive, directive and inductive. See Oberst, Joseph, “Conjecturæ ...”: Augsburg, 1760.

Magnet, mathematical theory of the (at Hansteen, C., A.D. 1819), 444

Magnet, molecular, first suggested by Kirwan, R., 263.

See Hale, Matthew, “Magnetismus magnus ...”: London, 1695.

Magnet, native, its different names, etc. See B.C. 1022, 600–580, 337–330, 321, 285–247, 60–56; also A.D. 121, 265, 295–334, 400, 1111–1117, 1490–1541.

Magnet, natural and artificial. See Gregory, G., 322

Magnet, powdered. See Ingen-housz, 256,

and Marcel (at Swinden), 273

Magnet, writers on the subject. See Zahn, Johann—Joannes (1641–1707); Schott, Gaspar (1608–1666) in his “Magia universali ...”: Bamberg, 1677; Boyle, Robert (1627–1691), “Some Considerations ...,” 1664, p. 15; Ruard, Andala (1665–1727), in his “Exercitationes ...,” 1709; Pfundt, Ehrenfried in his “Disputatio Physica de magnete,” 1673; Bertrand, Elie (1712–1790), “Dictionnaire Universel”: Avignon, 1763, p. 14.

Magnetic and electric forces, analogy between, 383

Magnetic Atlas or Variation Charts: Bianco, Andrea, 1436, 62;

Halley, Edmund, 1683, 137;

Churchman, John (mention made of Halley, Lambert, Mountaine and Dodson, Wilke) 1794, 315;

Barlow, Peter, 1820, 458

Magnetic Attractions and repulsions, 156

Magnetic Cars, Carriages. See Chariots.

Magnetic Curves, 156

Magnetic Declination, causes of the, 164

Magnetic Declination, first announced in print by Falero, Francisco, in 1535, 67–68

Magnetic Declination, history of, by Carli, Gian Rinaldo (1720–1785), “Dissertazione ...”: Venice, 1747.

Magnetic Dip, earliest known observations in U.S.A., 258–259

Magnetic Expedition, 333 (Humboldt), 445 (Hansteen).

Magnetic Fluids, two, theory of: Wilcke, J.C. (mentions Coulomb, 276, and Poisson, 410), 1757, 215, 276;

Brugmans, Anton, in 1778, 215;

Prevost, Pierre (1751–1839), “De l’origine ...”: Genève, 1788; Treméry, J. L., in 1797.

Magnetic Force, law of the decrement of, 334

Magnetic Force, laws of, by Dr. Brooke Taylor, 156

Magnetic Forces, causes and mechanism of, 164

Magnetic Induction by electric currents, discovered by Arago, 478

Magnetic Influence, earliest known application of, 2637 B.C.

Magnetic Intensity and dip or inclination, Gay-Lussac, 1804, 389

Magnetic Islands and mountains, 71

Magnetic Measurement, absolute, by Poisson, 411

Magnetic Plants, 259–261

Magnetic Poles: Halley, 1683, 137;

Euler, Albert, 1766, 214;

Brewster, 1820, 465;

Royal Society of London, “Miscellanea Curiosa”: London, 1726.

Magnetic Properties of metals developed by percussion, 482

Magnetic Rotatory Polarization. See Cadozza, G., likewise Arago at p. 478

Magnetic Sand: Butterfield in 1698 and Desaguliers and Musschenbroek in 1733, 174, 175

Magnetic Society. See Paris.

Magnetic Stations, 267, 334

Magnetic Stones, 512

Magnetic Storms, so named by Humboldt, 334

Magnetic Suspension of statues, tombs, etc., 18, 73, 123, 222

Magnetical compass of new design by De la Hire (Phil. Trans., 1687, p. 344), 145

Magneticks (Phil. Trans. abridged, Vol. X. Pt. I. Chap. iv. pp. 1–20, for 1756).

“Magnetischen vereins ...,” Resultate ... von Gauss ...: Göttingen, 1836–1841.

Magnetism and Electricity, analogy between, 163, 272

Magnetism, Animal: Mesmer, 235–237;

Puységur, 236, 425

Magnetism, Animal, and its curative powers, detailed by Kluge (Karl Alexander Ferdinand) in “Proeve eener voorstelling ...”: Amsterdam, 1812.

Magnetism, Animal, and magnetism, mineral, division established by Kircher, Athan, in his “Magneticum Naturæ ...”: Amsterdam, 1667.

Magnetism, Animal, history of. See Mojon.

Magnetism, Animal. See Report of Franklin, B.: Philadelphia, 1837 (2nd ed.); also Petrus, P. B., “Etude ...”: Pise, 1852, p. 237.

Magnetism, History of, by Wilcke, J. C., “Tal om Magnetem ...”: Stockholm, 1764, also by Murhard, F. W. A., and likewise by Churchman, John, in “Magnetic Atlas ...”: London, 1794.

Magnetism imparted to iron bar without a magnet, 300

Magnetism imparted to non-ferruginous substances, 163

Magnetism, influence of heat upon, 458

Magnetism, its effect on plants, 257

Magnetism—Magnetisme—this noun first employed by Barlow, Wm., in his “Magneticall Advertisements ...”: London, 1616.

Magnetism, Mathematical, theory of, Hansteen, Chr. (1784–1873), “Untersuchungen ...,” 1819, Chap. v., 444–446

Magnetism, Mechanical, production of, by Boyle, R., in his “Works ...,” 1699–1700 (Vol. II. p. 323), 131, 132

Magnetism of salts of the magnetic metals (Phil. Mag., Ser. IV. Vol. XXX. pp. 366–370, 1865).

Magnetism, Rotatory, Arago (1820), 478;

Cadozza, Harris, 469;

Barlow, 458.

Consult “Table Analytique de, Annales de Ch. et de Phys.,” Index pp. 257–258.

See Electro-magnetic Rotations.

Magnetism, theories of. See Theories.

Magnetism, universal prevalence of, in all bodies (Arago), 479

“Magnetist,” published at Frankfort, 556

Magneto-electric induction, discovered by Faraday, 484–487

Magnetometer of Bidone, Georgio (1781–1889), “Description ...”: Turin, 1807; also of Scoresby, 1821, and of Lloyd, H., “Proc. Royal Irish Academy.”

Magnus, L. See Gomperz.

Magnus, Professor G. (at Gmelin, L.) 450

Magrini, L. (at Oersted, H. C.), 455

Magrinus. See Arnaldus de Villa Nova.

Mahaffy, John P., 122, 511

Mahomet, 73, 91, 123, 222, 527, 541, 542.

For Mahomets’ tomb, etc. (magnetic suspension of) see Sir Thomas Browne, “Pseudodoxia Epidemica ...,” 1646; Van Etten, Henry, “Mathematical Recreations ...,” 1674; Weston, Wynant van, “Mathematische ...,” 1662–1663; Guyot, E. G. (1706–1786), “Nouvelles Récréations ...,” published in 1769–1770.

Mahon, Lord, third Earl of Stanhope (1753–1816), 184, 254, 255, 275, 310

Mailla—Maillac—Joseph Anne Marie de Moyriac de (1679–1748), 1–2

Maimbourg, Louis (1610–1686), 144

Maimbray—De Maimbray—of Edinburgh, 179, 282

Maimonides—Moses Ben Maimon (at Cordova c. A.D. 1132), 40

Maindron, Ernest (at Mesmer, F. A.), 237;

(at Volta, A.), 248

Maiolus—Maiolo—Majolus—Simon (1520–1597), Bishop of Volturara, “Colloginas”; “Dies Caniculares ...,” 19, 33, 160

Mair, John, credited with the discovery of the secular variation of the declination, 1635, 117

Mairan, Jean Jacques d’Ortous de (1678–1711), “Traité de physique ...,” 1731, 139, 140, 141, 142, 309

Maisiat, Michel (1770–1822), “... changements faits à la boussole ...”: Paris, 1818. Contains a brief history of the mariner’s compass.

Maissas—Meissas—Alexandre André de (b. 1800), 352

Majocchi, Giovanni Alessandro (d. 1854), “Annali di Fisica, Chimica, etc.”: Milano, 28 Vols. 420

Majus (i. e. May), Heinrich, “Disp. de tonitru”; “Disp. de fulmine” (Pogg., II. 21, 1673), 199

Makium, constructs a novel magnetic chariot, 22

Malapterurus—at one time called Malapterus-electricus, 192, 374

Malcolm, Sir John (at Zoroaster), 542

Malfanti, G., “Le météore ...,” 1586, 553

Mallemans de Messanges, C. (1653–1723), “Nouveau système de l’aimant”: Paris, 1680.

Mallet, Charles Auguste (b. 1807), “Manuel de philosophic,” 1835.

Mallet, Charles François (1766–1853) (Annales des Ponts et Chaussées).

Mallet, Clément. See Clément Mallet.

Mallet du Pan, Jacques (1749–1800), “Mercure historique,” 265

Mallet-Favre, Jacques André (1740–1790), Swiss astronomer, “De acus magneticæ ...”; “Observations astronomiques ...,” 249

Mallet, Friedrich (1728–1797), “Description mathématique du globe,” 232

Maloet. See Le Dru, Maloet, Cosnier, Darcet ..., 229, 385

Malte-Brun, Victor Adolphe, “Géographie Universelle,” 1816, 93

Malus, Etienne Louis (1775–1812), 480–481

Malzet. See Jacquet de Malzet.

Manardus, Joannes, “Epistolarum medicinalium ...,” 1549, 27

Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Trans. and Memoirs, 10, 16, 24, 134, 165

Mandeville, Sir John (born c. 1300), 67, 72.

See Biogr. Univ. de Michaud, Vol. XXVI. p. 32; Dict. of Nat. Biogr., Vol. XXXVI. pp. 23–29, and the works of H. Cordier therein named.

Manetto—Manetho—Manathou, on the magnet stone, 14.

At pp. 51–54 of Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren’s “Manual of Ancient History,” Oxford, 1833, it is said that Manetto was a celebrated high priest at Heliopolis who flourished under the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus, about 260 B.C. He wrote the Ægyptica, and his authenticity is now completely established.

Consult George Stanley Faber, Horæ Mosaicæ, I. 251; George Rawlinson’s “Bampton Lectures,” p. 56; William Osburn, “Monumental History of Egypt,” II. 606–608; J. P. Cory, “Of the writings of Manetto, translated from the Greek.”

Manget, Jean Jacques, “Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medicorum,” 528

Mangin, l’Abbé (d. 1772), “Histoire Générale ... de l’électricité ...”: Paris, 3 Vols. 1752, 555

Manheim—Mannheim—Academy of Sciences, Theodoro Palatina, Historia, Memoria et Commentationes, 29, 285, 289

Manheim—Mannheim—Electoral Meteorol. Society, Transactions, 285, 320

Mann, Théodore Augustin (1735–1809), “Sur les marées aériennes ...,” 1792, 289, 320

Mannevilette, Jean Baptiste N. D. Après de (1707–1780), “Le nouveau quartier” (Hadley’s quadrant), 1739

Mansill, Richard (at Faraday), 499

Mansion, Paul, “Note ... astronomie ancienne,” 533

Manual of Chemistry. See Brande, W. T.

Manual of Classical Biography. See Moss, J. W.

Manual of Electro-metallurgy. See Napier, James; Shaw, George.

Manual of Magnetism. See Davis, Daniel.

Manuel de l’électricité. See Delaunay, Veau.

Manuel du libraire et de l’amateur de livres par Jacques C. Brunet, Paris, 71

Maplet, John (d. 1592), “A Greene Forest or a Naturall Historie,” 16

Marais, Paul, “Bibliothèque Mazarine,” xi

Maraldi, James Philip (at Cassini), 268

Marana, G. P., “L’espion ...,” 1684; “Letters writ ...,” 1734, 554, 555

Marat, Jean Paul (1744–1793), 269, 385 (at Thillaye-Platel).

Marbodeus Gallus, surnamed Pelliciarius (1035–1125), 17, 26, 74, 82, 513

Marcel, Arnold, 149, 206, 273, 292

Marcellus Empiricus (fl. end fourth century), “De medicamentis ...,” 24, 26

Marcet, Mrs., “Conversations on chemistry,” 322, 323, 497

Marciana Library at Venice, 111

Marcilius Ficinus. See Ficino.

Marco Polo. See Polo, Marco.

Marcorelle and Darguier (at Dalton, J.), 308

Mardonius, Persian general (d. 479 B.C.), fire signals, 4

Maréchaux, Peter Ludwig (b. 1764), 388, 394, 420

Margarita Philosophica of Father Gregorius Reisch, 34–35

Margueritte (at Pepys, W. H., Sr.), 372

Mariani Parthenii Electricorum, 227

Marianini, Stefano Giovanni (1790–1866), 325, 330, 355, 385

Maricourt, Pierre de. See Peregrinus.

Marie Davy (at Thillaye-Platel), 386

Marie, J. E. Maximilien, “Hist. des Sc. Mathématiques et Physiques,” 12 Vols. 1883–1888, 147, 152, 412, 506

Marin, Th. (at De Romas), 204

Mariners’ compass, history of the. See Maissiat, Michel (1770–1822), “Mémoire ...,” 1818, viii, 59–61, 141;

Keou-tsoungchy, A.D. 1111–1117, 29;

Guyot de Provins, A.D. 1190–1210, 30;

Bianco, Andrea, A.D. 1436, 62–63;

Voltaire, F. M. A. de, A.D. 1327–1377, 58, 104

Marinette, or compass, 56

Marinière, or loadstone, 30

Markham, C. R., translator of Acosta’s “Natural ... history of the Indies,” 21

Marni, “Sulla formazione ...” (at Alexander Tilloch), 392

Marrherr, P. A. (at Thillaye-Platel), 1765, 385

Marrigues à Montfort l’Amaury (at Thillaye-Platel), 1773, 385

Marsh, J. (at Ampère), 476, 477

Marshall, Charles. See Morrison, Charles, 208–209

Marsigli, Luigi Fernandino, Conte (1658–1730), 419

Martianus, Minneus Felix Capella (fl. early fifth century).

Martin, Adam Georg (b. 1812), “Repertorium der Galvanoplastik und Galvanostegie,” 2 Vols. 1856.

Martin, A. R. (Vetensk. Akad. Abh. 1758 and 1761).

Martin, Benjamin (1704–1782), “Bibliotheca Technologica,” 1737; “Essay on Electricity ...,” 1746; “Biographia Philosophica,” 1764; “Philosophia Britannica,” 1747, 95, 131, 170, 252, 315

Martin de Brettes, “Appareils chrono-électriques ...,” 1858.

Martin-Haug, I., “Essays ...,” 1862 (at Zoroaster), 542

Martin, Henri, “Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal,” ix

Martin, Henry (at Oersted), 455

Martin, Louis Henri, Baron (1810–1883), “Sur ... Héron d’Alexandrie,” 520

Martin, “Météorologie ...” (at Aurora Borealis), 139

Martin, Thomas Henri (1813–1884), 8, 10, 15, 18, 72, 520;

“De l’aimant, de ses noms divers,” 1861; “Du succin, de ses noms divers,” 1860; “La foudre, l’électricité ...,” 1866; “Observations ... electriques ...,” 1865; “Les attractions ... magnétiques ...,” 1865.

Martineau, James (at Priestley, Joseph), 228

Martyn and Chambers, “The Phil. Hist. and Mem. of the Royal Academy at Paris,”: London, 1742, 145

Martyn, John—also Eames and Martyn. See Royal Society.

Marum, Martin van (1750–1837), 231, 247, 257, 277–280, 337, 384, 448, 455, 483

Marzari, G., e Toaldo, G., 253, 254

Masars—Mazars—de Cazelès. See Cazelès, 229

Mascagni, P. (at Brugnatelli), 363

Mascuelli, G. (at Bolton, J. F.), 245

Mason, Col. David, 223, 234, 235

Maspero, Gaston Camille Charles (b. 1846), “Dawn of Civilization,” 14, 299

“Massachusetts Gazette,” 223

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, xi

Massé, J. (at Jadelot, J. F. N.), 330

Massuet, Pierre, “Essais ...,” 1751, 175

Materia subtilis. See Subtle.

Maternus, G. C. Cilano de, 1743 (at Dalton, John), 308

Mather, Encrease—Increase (1639–1723), 135

Matteini—Matheini—Luigi (at Sarpi, Pietro), 112

Matteucci, Carlo (1811–1868), 135, 241, 284, 298, 330, 355, 374, 385, 409, 426, 441, 469, 493;

“... Giornale de Fisica ...,” 1853; “Traité des phenomènes ...,” 1844; “Sur l’électricité animale ...,” 1834; “Richerche Elettro ...,” 1846; “Recherches physiques ...,” 1837; “Manuale di teleg. elett ...,” 1850; Mémoires, in Annales de Chimie. ... Vols. 27, 28, 34.

See Cates’ “Dictionary of General Biography,” 3rd ed. 1880, p. 848.

Matteucci, P. (at Dalton, J.), “De aurora boreali ...”: Bononioe, 1747, 308

Matthæus Silvaticus. See Silvaticus, 529

Matthieu, C. (at Galvani, L.), 285

Matthieu de Messine, the notary of Lentino, 15–16

Matthiolus, Petrus Andreas (1500–1577), 27, 526;

“Commentaries on Dioscorides,” 1598; “P. A. M. ... opera ... de materia medica,” 1596.

Maty, Dr. Matthew, Secretary of the English Royal Society (1718–1776), 170, 272

Maty, Paul Henry, son of Dr. Matthew Maty, editor of the Philosophical Transactions (1745–1787), 547.

See “Dict. of Nat. Biogr.,” Vol. XXXVII. 1894, pp. 78–79.

Matzenauer, E. (at Dalton, J.), 308

Maudonnet, Pierre, “Siger de Brabant ...,” 37, 505

Mauduyt, Antoine René (1731–1815), 229, 263, 269, 270, 302, 385

Maufras, M. D. de, translator of F. de Navarette’s “Recherches ...,” 531

Maunder, Samuel, “Biographical Treasury,” “Dictionary of Univ. Biog.,” 1838, 148

Maunoir, Professor (at Schwenter, D.), 81

Maupied, F. L. M., “Histoire des Sciences,” 37, 103, 404

Maupin, Georges (at Leurechon, J.), 109

Maurice, 1810 (at Thillaye-Platel), 385

Maurius, “Sphera volgare ...,” 1537, 553

Mauro, Fiorentino (1494–1556), “Sphera volgare ...”: Venice, 1537.

Maurolycus—Maurolico—Franciscus, Abbas Messanensis (1494–1575), 72, 115, 527;

“D. F. A. ... Opuscula mathematica ...,” 1575.

Maver, William, Jr., “Wireless telegraphy,” 19

Maxwell, James Clerk (1831–1879), “The electrical researches of the Hon. Henry Cavendish,” on title page, xiii, 184, 239, 252.

See Rumford Medal.

Maxwell, William, “Medicina magnetica ...,” 1679, 135, 245, 301

May, Gustav, “Die Weltliteratur der Electricitaet und des Magnetismus von 1860–1883 ...”: Wien, 1884. [The English edition, “A bibliography of electricity and magnetism, 1860–1883,” was published in London, also in 1884.]

Maycock, J. D. (at Luc, J. A. de; also at Donovan, Michael), 406, 419

Mayer, A. F. J. C., “Spicilegium ...”: Bonnæ, 1843, 298

Mayer, Alfred Marshall (1836–1906), 92, 140, 310, 324, 472, 473, 487, 495

Mayer, And., “Dissert. sistens ...,” 1777.

Mayer, B. E., “Hist. of Mod. Philos.,” 1900, 94

Mayer, G. F. (Poligrafo di Verona, ii, 97, 1836).

Mayer, Johan Tobias, junior (1752–1830), 220, 416

Mayer, Johan Tobias, senior (1723–1762), 220, 252

Mayer, Johann (1754–1807), “Abhandlungen ...,” 1793, 249, 285

Mayer, Joseph (1752–1814), Abh. Bohm. Gesellsch. d. Wiss., 1785.

Mayer—Meyer—F. C., “De luce boreali ...,” 1726, 308

Mayo, Herbert (at Faraday, M.), 487

Mazéas, L’Abbé Jean Mathurin (1716–1801), eminent mathematician, brother of Guillaume Mazéas (1742–1776) the well-known chanoine of Vannes, F.R.S., 200, 201, 320

Mazzuchelli, Frederigo, “Raccolta d’Opuscoli,” 501

Mazzuchelli, Giovanni Maria, Conte de (1707–1765), 64, 71;

“Gli Scrittori d’Italia ...”: Brescia, 1753–1763.

Meade, William, “On the origin and progress of galvanism”: Dublin, 1805, 285

Mechanical Dictionary. See Knight.

“Mechanics’ Journal.” See Practical Mechanics’ Journal.

“Mechanics’ Magazine” (at Nicholson, Wm.), 337

Médecine éclairée par les sciences physiques, 303

Medhurst, George—first germ of pneumatic telegraphy, 408

Medical Facts, 229

Medical Library and Historical Journal, 147

Medicina magnetica. See Maxwell, Wm.

Medicin Gelehrten-Lexikon, 529

Medicinisch-chirurgische Zeitung. See Ackermann, J. F.

Medicinisches-Schrifsteller Lexicon. See Callisen.

Medina, Pedro da—Piedro de (born c. 1493), denies variation of compass in “Arte del Navegar,” 63, 64, 68

Meersch, P. C. van der, 539

Megascope, invented by J. A. C. Charles, 288–289

Megerlin, Peter (d. 1686) (at Bernoulli family), 147

Mehu, M. C. See Sestier, Félix.

Mehun, Giovanni di, 61

Meidinger, J. Ferdinand (1726–1777), 258

Meissas. See Maissas.

Meissner, G., and Meyerstein, J., “Uber ein neues galvanometer ...,” 1859.

Mela—Pomponius (fl. in first century), “De situ orbis,” 506, 553

Melchior, Adam (at Cordus, Valerius), 508

Mellarde of Turin, 1749, 385

Melloni, Macedonio (1798–1854), “Magnetismo delle Rocce,” 1853, 1854, 1857.

Melseu, M. (at Diwish, P.), 209

Mémoires de mathématique et physique, 183, 204, 274, 277, 320, 426

Mémoires de Turin, 140

Mémoires des savants étrangers, 204, 320

Mémoires des sciences mathématiques de France, 412

Mémoires des sociétés savantes et littéraires de la Republique Française, 285, 328, 349, 350, 352, 355, 389

Mémoires récréatifs. See Robertson.

“Memoirs for the ingenious ...,” 145

“Men of the Time” (at Faraday, M.), 498

Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin, 321

Mendoza, Juan Gonzales de, “History of the Kingdom of China” (1540–1617), 77

Mendoza y Rios, José de, “Tratado de Navegacion,” 120

Menelaus—Mileus—Milleus (fl. end first century A.D.), 527, 541

Menippus (at Browne, Sir Thomas), 123

Menken, F. O. (at Fracastorio, H.), 515

Menon, L’Abbé (at Maimbray, M.), 179

Menon, M., “Influence de l’électricité sur la végétation,” 257

Mentzel, M. Chn., “De lapide Bononiensi ...,” 1673, 554

Mercator, Gerard Kremer—Kaufmann, Mercator’s Projection, xvii, 80, 510, 518, 559–564 (Nouvelle Biographie Générale, Vol. XXXV. p. 11).

Merckleim, George Abraham, “Lindenius Renovatus,” 508, 538

“Mercure de France,” 243, 259, 265, 556.

See Décade.

Mercurial phosphorus (Hauksbec), 150

Mergey, Antoine Eugène, “Etude sur les travaux de De Romas,” 204, 337

Merivale, Charles, “History of the Romans,” 8

Merry, W. W., and Riddell, Jas., translators of Homer’s “Odyssey,” 6

Mersenne, Marin (1588–1648), 109, 120, 122, 130, 527

Merula Gaudentius (fl. early sixteenth century), 108, 299, 527–528

(Società Storica Lombarda), “Biblioteca Historica Italica”; “Memorabilium ...,” 1556.

Merula, Paulus, “Cosmographiæ Generalis ...,” 1605, 72, 515

Merveilleux (Le) dans l’antiquité. See Chassang, M. A.

Merz, Heinrich (at Fraunhofer, J. von), 433

Meschino, Il. See Guerino.

Mesmer, Friedrich Anton (1733–1815), 64, 233, 235–237

“Messager des Sciences et des Arts:” Gand, 1823, 274

Messanges. See Mallemans.

Messines, Matthieu de, 15

Metals and minerals, electricity of. See Electricity of metals and minerals.

Metals, electrically revivified by Beccaria, 207

Meteoric stones (at Fourcroy, Antoine), 313, 354.

See also Salverte.

Meteorites, Meteorolites, Meteors. See Aerolites; also, Phipson, 286, 313, 314, 315, 376, 380

“Météorographie ...” by P. N. Changeux, 1776, 556

Meteors. See Stanhusius, Mich.; also Trew, Abdias.

Meteyard, Miss, “Life of Wedgwood,” 430

Méthérie, J. C. de la. See La Méthérie.

Meton—Meto—celebrated Athenian mathematician (fl. 432 B.C.), 544

Metrodorus (at School of Athens), 544.

Greek philosopher of Chios (fl. beginning fourth century A.D.), was pupil of Democritus. Another Greek philosopher of the same name was brother of Timocrates and flourished A.D. 230–277. Another Metrodorus, Greek philosopher and traveller, living first century B.C., was a native of Scepsis and the author of many important works.

Metzger, Johann Jacob (1783–1853), Electrical plate machine, 256

Meusel, Johann Georg, 233

Meyer, “Chymische Versuche ...; sull’ elettricità animale ...” (Sue i 127), 1792.

Meyer, Com., “... virtù della calamita ...”: Roma, 1696.

Meyer, Ernst van (at Lavoisier, A. L.), 262

Meyer, F. C., de luce boreali, 140

Meyer, H. von, of Frankfort (Archiv. f. d. Ges. Natural, XIV. p. 342), 288

Meyer, Herman Joseph (1796–1856), Meyer’s Konversations-Lexikon: Leipzig und Wien, 30, 152, 262, 335, 389, 392, 559

Meyer, Johann Friedrich (1705–1765), “Chymische Versuche ... elektrischen materie ...,” 1764, 555

Meyer, Johann Karl Friedrich (1733–1811), “Versuche mit der von Pallas ...,” 1776, 1777 and 1780, 346

Meyer, Moritz (Deutsche Klinik, 1857, No. 9), 386

Meyer, W. H. Theodor, “Bestimmungen ...” 1857, and “Beobachtungen ...,” 1858.

Meyerstein, J. See Meissner and Meyerstein.

Meygenberg, Conrad van, “Book of Nature,” 34

Mezzini (at Aldini, G.), 305, and (at Reinhold, J. C. L.), 327

Mical, L’Abbé N. (1780–1844), 171. See “Nouv. Biog. Gén.,” XXXV. 312.

Micali, Joseph (1780–1844), “L’Italie avant la domination des Romains,” 8

Micanzio, Fra Fulgentio, 110, 113

Michael de Montaigne (1533–1592) (“Nouv. Biog. Gén.,” XXXVI. 55), 299–300

Michaelis, Jean David P. (1717–1791), 5, 9, 10, 326, 332

Michaud frères, “Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne”: Paris et Leipzig, 1811–1853, 2, 12, 25, 45, 58, 68, 71, 93, 95, 106, 122, 140, 146, 148, 163, 164, 170, 186, 189, 203, 208, 220, 232, 233, 235, 236, 243, 258, 259, 263, 265, 277, 280, 292, 301, 303, 306, 370, 400, 406, 455, 456, 464, 518, 527

Michaud, Joseph François, “History of the Crusades,” 31

Michell—Michel—John (1724–1793), Artificial magnets, 191, 206, 217

Michelotti, V., “Précis de nouvelles expériences galvaniques,” 1809, 295

Middeldorpf, A., 1854 (at Jadelot, J. F. N.), 330

Middleton, Capt. Christopher (d. 1770), 267

Miers, Prof. H. A. (at Chladni, E. F. F.), 315

Migne, Jacques Paul (1800–1875), “Patrologiæ cursus completus,” 1854

Milano—Milan—Effemeridi Chim. Mediche, 363

Miles, Rev. Henry of Tooting, 172

“Militaire Spectateur Hollandais,” 397

Miller and Daniell (Phil. Trans. for 1844, Part I.).

Miller (at Philostratus, Flavius), 533

Miller, Benigne Emmanuel Clément (Revue de Biographie Analytique, par E. C. Miller et G. A. Aubenas, 1804).

Miller, George, D.D. (1764–1848), “History Philosophically Illustrated from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution, 1832” (Dublin Academy, VII. 139); “Elements of Natural Philosophy,” 1799, 23, 32, 33, 42, 55, 56, 57, 61, 66, 96, 102, 116, 130, 134, 248, 262, 284, 441

Miller, Gerh. And., “Schreiben ... d. elektricität ...,” 1746.

Miller, Hugh, “Essays ... scientific”: Edinburgh, 1862.

Miller, Samuel, D.D., “Retrospect ...,” 3 Vols. 1805, 10

Miller, William Allen, “Chemistry ...,” 1871, 433, 467, 470

Milliet—De Chales—Dechales Claudius François (1621–1678), “L’Art de naviguer”: Paris, 1677; “Cursus, seu mundus mathematicus ...,” 1690, 1674, 110, 146, 273

Millin de Grandmaison, Aubin Louis (1759–1818), “Magazin Encyclopédique,” 1795; “Annales Encyclopédiques,” 1795, 384, 451

Milly, Nicolas Christiern, Comte de Thy (1728–1784), 235, 264

Milman, Henry Hart, D.D. (1791–1868), “History of Latin Christianity,” 36, 42, 144, 505, 523.

See Gibbon.

Milner, Thomas (1719–1797), “Exp. and Obs. in electricity,” 1783, 367, 556

Mimosa pudica and mimosa sensitiva (at Dutrochet, Schmuck and at Ingen-housz), 257, 464

Mines are fired by electricity in 1749, 189.

It has already been noted (at A.D. 1745, 176) that Watson exploded gunpowder (Phil. Trans. abridged, X. 288), and reference should be made to Franklin’s letter to Collinson, July 27, 1750, as well as to Priestley’s History (1775 edition, p. 78) and to Schilling’s report of the explosion of mines by galvanic currents, as mentioned herein, A.D. 1812, 421

Mining Journal. See London Mining Journal.

Minkeller, M., 249

Minotto (at Zamboni, Giuseppe), 420

Miot (at Chappe, Claude), 301.

Mirmont, De la Ville de, 18

“Mirror of Nature” of Vincent de Beauvais, 34

Mirus, C. E. (at Dalton, John), 308

“Miscellanea ... Tauriniensa,” 224

Mitscherlich, Eilard—Eilhert—M. (Allgem. Deutsche Biographie, XXII. 15–22), 471

Mizauld, Antoine (at Schott, Gaspar), 126

Mochetti, Francisco (d. 1839), 424

Mœurs, de Reg. Athen., 5

Moigno, Abbé François Napoléon Marie (1804–1884), Aumonier du Lycée Louis Le Grand, “Traité de télégraphie électrique”; “Les Mondes”; “Le Cosmos, Revue encyclopédique hebdomadaire”: Paris, 1852–1870, 98, 242, 248, 365, 440, 556

Moillet, Mrs. Amelia, “Sketch of the life of James Keir,” 297

Mojon, Benedetto, junior, “Sur l’application ...,” 1845, 386

Mojon, Benedetto, senior (1784–1849), “Histoire académique du magnétisme animal,” 1841.

Mojon, Benoit, “Réflections ...” (Journ. du Galvan., XI. p. 168).

Mojon, Giuseppe—Joseph (at Romagnosi, G. D. G. G.), 366

Molenier, Jacob, “Essai sur le mécanisme de l’électricité,” 229

Molinier, Victor, “Notice ... boussole au XIII^e siècle,” 61

Molitor, N. K. (at Ingen-housz, Johan), 258

Moll—Gerhard—Gerrit, of Utrecht (1785–1838), “Sur des expériences electro-magnétiques” (Brewster’s Journal of Science, III. 1830).

Consult “Journal de Chimie et d’Histoire Naturelle,” Vol. 94, pp. 377–388; Moll and Van Beck (Journal de Physique, XCII. 1821); Moll, Van Rees and Van den Bos (Gilb. Ann. LXXII. 1822), 272, 273, 473

Moller, D. W. (at Solinus, Caius Julius), 540

Möller, P. L., 440, 450

Mollet, Joseph (1758–1829), “Cours élémentaire de physique expérimentale,” 2 Vols. 1822 (Acad. de Lyon, Mai, 1823), 226, 367

Molyneux, Emery (at Hues—Hood—Robert), 522, 562, 563

Mombret, Eugène Coquebert (at Chladni, E. F. F.), 314

Monardus, Nicolas, 27, 516

“Monatliche correspondenz ... von Zach”: Gotha, 1800–1813, 462

Moncel. See Du Moncel.

Moncomy, Balthazar de, 126

Mond, Dr. Robert L., xii

Monge, Gaspard, Comte de Péluse (1746–1818), 247, 294, 328, 375, 407, 417, 477.

See Jal’s Dictionary, 878–879.

Mongiardini and Lando, “Sul Galvanismo ...”: Genova, 1803, 330

Moniteur. See Le Moniteur.

“Moniteur Scientifique.” See Quesneville, Gustave Augustin.

Monro, Alexander (1733–1817), “Experiments ...,” 1793, 1794, 306, 327

Monroe, Paul, “A Cyclopædia of Education”: New York, 1913.

Mons, Jean Baptiste van (1765–1842), “Journal de Chimie” (complément aux Annales de Chimie), Bruxelles, 1802, 231, 248, 285, 306, 326, 337, 341, 350, 353, 362, 363, 367, 381, 383, 384, 388, 400, 452

Montagnana, Bartholomeo (born c. A.D. 1400), 528

Montagu, Basil (at Bacon, Sir Francis), 102

Montaigne, Michael de. See Michel de Montaigne.

Montanus, Arias Benedictus (1527–1598), 528

Montanus, Joannes Baptista (1488–1551), “Metaphrasis summaria ...,” 1551, 26, 525, 528

Montbéliard, Guénaud de (at Morveau, L. B. Guyton de), 233

“Monthly Magazine,” publication commenced in London during 1796, 43, 229, 381

Monti and Gironi (at Brugnatelli, L. V.), 363

Montpellier, Academy of Sciences, Histoire de la Société Royale, Mémoires, Recueils, etc., 276

Montpellier, Annales de la Société de Médecine (Ecole de Médecine), 328, 507

Montpellier, Catalogues méthodiques des livres scientifiques, 1855–1856.

Montpellier, Faculté de, 506

Montravel, Tardy de (at Amoretti, Carlo), 401

Montucla, Jean Etienne (1725–1799), “Histoire des Mathématiques,” 79, 81, 122, 123, 171, 220, 401, 505, 506, 510, 520, 521, 527, 531

Moon, Robert. See Fresnel.

Moore, Bishop of Norwich (at Rohault, Jacques), 129

Moore, Sir John (1761–1809), 397

Morales, G. de, 1605, 553

Morant, Philip (at Gilbert, William), 92

Moreau, on the electrical organs of fishes, 300

Moreri, Louis (1643–1680), “Le Grand Dictionnaire Historique,” 1740, 163, 513

Morgagni, Giovanni Battista (1682–1771), 147, 148

Morgan, George Cadogan (1754–1798), 282

Morgan, J., 1815 (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine), 385

Morhof, Daniel George (1639–1691), “Polyhistor ... et rerum commentarii,” 1688, 55

Morichini, Domenico Pini (1773–1836), 423–424

Morieni, Romani, “De re metallica”: Parisiis, 1559, 502

Morin, Jean Baptiste (1583–1656), 183, 187

Moringo—Moringuo—Gerardus (at Augustine, Aurelius, Saint), 25

Morlet (at Hansteen, Christoph), 446

Morley, Henry (at Agrippa, H. C.), 502;

(at Cardanus, H.), 507

Morozzo—Morotius—Carlo Luigi, Comte de (1744–1804), 295

Morrell, Thomas, “Elements of the History of Phil. and Sc.,” 108, 268

Morris, George S., translator of Ueberweg’s “Hist. of Phil.,” 26, 32, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 102

Morris, William, 6

Morrison, Charles (fl. 1753), 208–209, 241 (Dict. Nat. Biogr., 1909, Vol. XIII. p. 1004).

Morse, Prof. Samuel Finley Breese. See Prime, Samuel Irenæus, 197

Mortenson, “Dissertatio de electricitate ...,” 1740, 1742, 555

Mortimer, Cromwell (d. 1752), 154, 155, 547.

See Royal Society.

Morveau, Baron Louis Bernard Guyton de (1737–1816), 233, 236, 247, 333, 354, 372, 392.

See Paris, Annales de Chimie.

Moscati, Pietro (at Ingen-housz, Johan), 257

Moser, L., and Riess, R. T., 423

Moser, Ludwig, “Über d. n. magnetischen Entdeckungen,” 1834, 423;

“Repertorium der physik.”

See Dove, Heinrich Wilhelm.

Moses (at the Etruscans), 9

Moss, Joseph William, “Manual of Classical Biography,” 11, 18

Motte, Benjamin. See Royal Society.

Mottelay, Paul F., xiv, 92

Moulton, Chas. Wells, “Library of Literary Criticism,” 62, 102, 124, 132, 134, 199, 216, 228

Moulton, John Fletcher (b. 1844). See Spottiswoode, William.

Mountaine, W., and Dodson, J., 165, 267, 315, 555

Mountaine, William, “Epitome of the Art of Navigation,” 1744, 165, 166.

He was associated with James Dodson, in the publication of “An account of the methods used to describe lines on Dr. Halley’s chart,” 1746.

Mouzin, P. (at Bolten, J. F.), 246

Moyes, Henry, “Heads of a course of lectures on the philosophy of chemistry,” 1780, 270, 342, 347

Muirhead, James Patrick, translator of Arago’s “Eloge of James Watt,” 126, 190, 228, 313

Muirhead, Professor Lockhardt, 462

Müller, G. F. (at Gmelin Family), 450

Müller, Johann Heinrich Jacob, “Lehrbuch der Kosmichen Physik,” 1856, 1865 and 1872, 140, 288;

Diamagnetism (Pogg. Ann., Vol. 83 for 1851).

Müller, Johannes, German scientist and astronomer, known as Regiomontanus (1436–1476), 67.

See Joannes de Monte Regio.

Müller—Mueller—Gerhard Andreas (1718–1762), 450

Muller-Pouillet, “Lehrbuch der physik und meteorologie,” 2 Vols. 1868–1869.

Mulloch, F. G. A., “Democriti Abderitæ ...,” 1843, 511

Multiplicator: Nobili and Antinovi: in 1822. See Oersted in 1825–1826.

Multiplier, electro-magnetic of Schweigger (at A.D. 1811), 413–414

Multiplier of Colladon, and of Henry, at pp. 112, 242, of Ronalds’ Catalogue.

Multiplier of electricity of Cavallo, 244

Mumenthaler, John Jacob (1729–1813), at Ingen-housz, 249, 257

Muncke, Georg Wilhelm (1772–1847), “Handbuch der naturlehre,” 2 Vols. 1829–1830, 308, 422.

See his numerous articles on magnetism, etc., in Gilb. Ann., Pogg. Ann. and Schweig. Journ.

Mundt, electrical machine of silken strips, 449

Mung-khi-py-than, 23, 29

Munich—München—Academie. See Bavarian Academy.

Munich—München—Royal Society, 381

Munichs, M. (at Gallitzin, D. A.), 243

Munk, Salomon, “Mélanges de philosophie Juive et arabe,” 39

Munk, William, “The roll of the College ...,” 91, 97, 105, 359

Munro, Alexander, 306, 332, 419

Murat, A. M., “Antiq. Italiana,” 36

Muratori, Ludovico Antonio, “Antiquitates Italiæ Medii Aevi.,” 539

Murhard, Fr. W. A., “Versuch einer historisch-chronologischen bibliographie des magnetismus”: Kassel, 1797.

Muriates produced by galvanic decomposition of water, 392

Murray, Dr. John (d. 1820), 428

Murray, J. (Phil. Mag., LIV. 39), 314, 424

Murray, Lord George (1761–1803), 316, 389, 437

Murray, John (1756–1851) (at Oersted, H. C.), 455, and at 419, 428–429

Musæum Regalis Societatis. See Grew, Nehemiah.

Musæum Septalianum. See Terzagus.

Muschmann—Musschman—M., Prof. of Chemistry at Christiana University, 442, 446

Musée de Chantilly, Manuscript of “La Cité de Dieu,” xix

Musée Tyler, Haarlem, Archives.

Museum d’histoire naturelle, Mémoires, 240, 288, 298, 300, 374

Musgrave William (1655–1721), Royal Society Transactions, 547

Muspratt, James Sheridan, “Chemistry,” 134

Musschenbroek—Musschenbroek—Petrus van (1692–1761), Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Leyden, “Essai de Physique,” “Recueil d’expériences,” 111, 138, 156, 173, 174, 175, 176, 191, 204, 270, 299, 320

Mydorge, Claude (1585–1647), 109

Mylius, J. Ch. (1710–1757), 320

Myrepsus. See Nicolaus.

N

Næggerath and Steininger (at Chladni, E. F. F., A.D. 1794), 315

Nairne, Edward (1726–1806), “Experiments ... to show the advantage of elevated pointed conductors” (Phil. Trans., 1778, p. 823), 237, 238, 243, 252, 264, 265.

See also Phil. Trans., 1772, p. 496; 1774, p. 79; 1780, p. 334; 1783, p. 223.

Namias, Giacinto (b. 1810) (“Giornale Veneto di scienze mediche,” V. 3, 1860), “Della elettricità applicata alla medicina,” 1851.

Namur, Jean Pie (b. 1804), “Bibliographie Académique Belge ...,” 1838, 256

Nancy, Mémoires de, 277

Nancy, Société Royale, 512

Napier, James (1810–1884), “A manual of electro-metallurgy,” 339, 359;

“On Electrical Endosmoses” (Chem. Soc. Mem. and Proceed., III. 28).

Napier, Macvey, “Memoir of Sir John Leslie,” 296

Naples, “Atti, Memorie, Rendiconto, della Reale Academia della scienze ...,” 495

Naples, the first academy of sciences, established in 1560, 75

Naples. See Palmieri, Luigi.

Napoléon Bonaparte, 247, 248, 338, 339, 361

Naram-Sin (at 2637 B.C.), 2

Narducci, Enrico (1832–1893), 50

Narrien, John, “Historical account of astronomy,” 521

National Academy of Sciences. See Washington.

“Natura (La),” publication commenced by Rodolfo Capparrera in Florence during 1877, as “L’Elettricita.”

“Naturæ Novitates,” publication commenced in Berlin during 1879.

“Nature” of Parmenides, 532

“Nature,” publication commenced in London during 1869, 31, 63, 77, 93, 99, 107, 128, 140, 440

“Naturwissenschaftliche abhandlungen am Dorpat,” 1823, 368

Nauche, Jacques Louis (1776–1843), “Journal du Galvanisme,” 280, 305, 326, 330, 337, 363, 453

Naudé, Gabriel (1600–1653), “Apologie ...,” 107, 502, 538.

See account of his many curious books at p. 232, Vol. I. See III. of “Notes and Queries.”

Naumann, Karl Friedrich (b. 1797), “Krystallographie,” 1825, 1830, 1841, 1850, 1852, 1854, 1856 (Pogg. Ann., III. 1825, XXXV. 1835).

Nautical Magazine (or Journal), London, 1832, etc., 61, 468

Nautonnier—Nautoniez—Guillaume de, Sicur de Castelfranco, “Mécometrie de l’eymant ...,” 1602–1604, 63

Navagero, A., “Orationes ... carmin ... nonulla ...,” 1555, 553

Navarrete, D. Martin Fernandez de (1765–1844), “Discurso historico ...,” “Recherches ... sciences nautiques,” 60, 509, 531

Neander, Johann August Wilhelm, 25

Nebel, Daniel Wilhelm (1735–1805), “De magnete artificiali”: Utrecht, 1756; “De electricitatis neu medico,” 1758.

Nebel, W. B. (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 385

Necker de Saussure, Louis Albert (b. 1786) (Bibl. Univ., Feb. 1830).

Neckham, Alexander (1157–1217), Abbot of St. Mary’s, 31;

“De Utensilibus”; “De natura rerum.”

Needham, John Tuberville. See Mem. de Brux., IV. 1783; “Dict. of Nat. Biogr.,” 1894, Vol. XL. p. 157.

Neef, Christian Ernst (1782–1849) (Pogg. Annal., XXXVI. 1835; XLVI. 1439; L. 1840), “Nachschrift ... über elektromagnetismus,” 1821, 423

Negro, Salvatore dal (1768–1839), “Dell’ elettricismo idro-metallico”: Padova, 1802; Ann. delle scienze del Regno Lombardo-Veneto, II. 109; III. 1833; IV. 1834; V. 165; Mem. Soc. Ital., XXI. 323, 1837.

Nelis, Corneille François de, of Malines (1736–1798), 288, 434, 435

Nelli, Giovanni Battista Clemente, “Vita de Galileo,” 116, 117

Neophron, Athenian poet who flourished fifth century B.C., 543

Neoplatonism, Plotinus the father of, 534

Netherlands, Royal Institute of, 272

Neubauer, Adolf (1832–1907), 35

“Neudrucke ...” of Dr. G. Hellmann, 531

“Neue Freie Presse” of Vienna, 421

“Neues Allgemeines Journal der Chemie.” See Gehlen, A. F. von, at Scherer, A. N.

“Neues Conversations-Lexicon”: Köln and Bonn.

“Neues Journal für chemie und physik.” See Gehlen, A. F. von at Scherer, A. N.

“Neuesten entdeckungen in der Chemie,” Crell, L. F. F., 254

“Neuestes Conversations-Lexicon”: Wien.

Neumann, Carl, “Theorie der Electricitäts ...,” 1863, 1864.

Neumann, Franz Ernst (at Hare, Robert, A.D. 1819), 449 (Crell’s Journ., XXVI. 1843).

Neumann, K. A., “Über meteorolithen ...,” 1813 (Gilb. Ann., XLII. 1812; XLIII. 1813).

Neumayer, G., “Bericht ... meteorsteines ...,” 1869.

Neve, T., “... concerning an aurora australis ...” (Phil. Trans., XLI. 843).

New Annual Register, 323

“New Cyclopædia or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences,” 45 Vols. See Rees, Abraham.

New England Magazine, 499

New General Biographical Dictionary, Rose, H. James, 2, 20, 24, 40, 43, 45, 68, 95, 107, 122, 156, 163, 202, 296, 533

“New London Mechanics’ Register and Magazine of Science and the Useful Arts,” publication commenced in London during 1824.

Newton, John, “Astronomia Britannica,” 1657.

“Newton’s Journal of Arts and Sciences,” publication commenced in London by W. Newton during 1820.

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642–1727), 58, 92, 95, 129, 132–134, 140, 145, 146, 150, 155, 159, 168, 181, 183, 225, 229, 238, 253, 315, 340, 461, 466, 472, 473, 484, 496

New York Columbian, 418

Neyreneuf, François Vincent, 426

Niamias, G. (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 386

Nicander of Colophon (fl. second century B.C.), 97, 529

Nicephorus, Callistus Xanthopoulos (fl. c. A.D. 1330), 142; “Historia Eccles. ...”

Niceron, Jean Pierre (1685–1738), “Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire des hommes illustres,” 97, 211, 507, 514, 527, 539

Nicetas—Hicetas—of Syracuse (fl. fourth century B.C.), 519, 530

Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, 422

Nicholas of Lynne (Carmelite astronomer, at Lully, Raymond).

Nicholl, J. F., “Life of Sebastian Cabot,” 69

Nichols, Edward L., xii

Nichols, Philip (at Kendal, Abram), 523

Nichols, Professor, “Cyclopædia of the physical sciences,” 461

Nicholson and Carlisle, 270, 337, 369, 419, 435

Nicholson, William (1753–1815), editor of the “Journal of Natural Philosophy,” “British Cyclopædia,” etc.

Nicholson’s “Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts,” commenced in 1802, 36 Vols., 165, 208, 228, 231, 241, 245, 248, 249, 270, 278, 280, 281, 296, 298, 302, 304, 322, 325, 330, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 341, 342, 347, 349, 359, 362, 363, 367, 369, 370, 383, 386, 387, 388, 393, 394, 398, 405, 406, 407, 428, 431, 443, 449

Nicklès, François Joseph Jérôme (b. 1820) (Comptes Rendus, année 1851), “Recherches sur l’aimantation,” 1855.

Nicodemo, Francisco, “Bibliotheca Napolitana,” 1699, 516

Nicolas, Lieut. Nicolas Harris (at Pasley, C. W., A.D. 1808), 398

Nicolas, Pierre François (1743–1816), “... électricité comme remède ...,” 1782, 385

Nicolas, Sir Harris (at A.D. 1327–1377), 59

Nicolaus Myrepsus (fl. thirteenth century A.D.), 27, 529

Niebuhr, Karsten—Carstens (1733–1815), celebrated German traveller, “Voyage en Egypte”; “Ansicht der Chemischen Naturgesetze,” 61, 453.

See “Journal des Savants” for Feb. 1818.

Nierembergius, Eusebius (at Zahn, F. J., A.D. 1696), 146

Nierop, Dirck van, “Nederduytsche Astronomia ...”: Amsterdam, 1658.

Niño, Pedro Alonzo (1468–1505), 60

Nipher, Francis Eugène, “The Volt, the Ohm and the Ampère”: practical electrical units (Journ. Ass. Engin. Soc., Vol. VII. pp. 83, 89: New York, 1888).

Nivelet, François, “Electricité médicale ...,” 1860–1863, 386

Noad, Henry Minchin (1815–1877), “Lectures on electricity ...,” 1839, 1844; “A manual of electricity ...,” 1855, 1857, 77, 122, 140, 145, 150, 176, 181, 196, 205, 206, 207, 225, 227, 228, 231, 239, 250, 252, 271, 274, 287, 291, 292, 297, 308, 318, 325, 330, 334, 335, 337, 339, 340, 347, 355, 356, 373, 378, 379, 380, 391, 407, 409, 418, 423, 437, 440, 447, 448, 455, 457, 458, 459, 460, 465, 467, 469, 470, 471, 475, 476, 481, 483, 489, 493

Nobili and Antinovi, “Sopra la forza elettromotrice del magnetismo,” 1831, 1832 (Ann. del Reg. Lomb. Veneto, II. 96, 832; Phil. Mag. for June 1832).

Nobili, Leopoldo (1784–1835), 285, 413, 472, 473, 475, 477, 479

(Bibl. Univ., XXV. 1824; Ital. Soc. Mem., XX. p. 173; Pogg. Annal., XXXIII. 1834).

Noectus, C. (at Dalton, John, A.D. 1793), 308

Noël, Bonaventura d’Argonne. See Vigneul-Marville.

Noggerath, Jacob (b. 1788), 314

(Phil. Mag. or Annals, II. 46, 1827; Schweigg. Journ., III. p. 224, 1828).

Noggerath, J., and Bischof, C. G. C. (Schweigg. Journ., XLIII. 825, 1825).

Noggerath, J., and Reuss, G. C. H. (Phil. Mag., VIII. 174, 1830).

Nollet, Jean Antoine (1700–1770) (Mém. de Paris, 1745, Hist., p. 4, Mém., p. 107; also 1746, Hist., p. 1, Mém., p. 1, and 1747, Hist., p. 1, Mém., p. 102; Phil. Trans., XLV. 187; XLVI. 368), 168, 174, 179, 180, 181–183, 185, 187, 188, 189, 193, 199, 201, 220, 224, 249, 257, 282, 320, 332, 554

Nomak. See Romisch.

Nonius, Petrus. See Nuñez.

Nooth, John Merwin, M.D., 278

Nordenskjold, Nils Adolf Erik (1832–1901), “Periplus,” 1897, 63, 139

“Nordisches Archiv. für d. Nat. v. Arzeneiw.,” 257

“Nördlischen Kätter für die chemie ...” See Scherer, A. N.

Norman, Robert (fl. 1590), “The newe attractive, or account of the first invention of the dipping needle,” xiv, 70, 75–77, 97, 112, 115, 250, 266

“North British Review,” 466

Norumbega, the lost city of New England, 115

Norwood, Richard (1589–1675), “The Seaman’s Practice ...,” 1719.

“Notes and Queries,” 75

Nouveau Larousse, Claude Augé, 1, 25, 131, 262

“Nouvelle Biographie Générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu’à nos jours,” edited by Dr. Hœfer, 2, 5, 10, 16, 21, 24, 25, 31, 32, 38, 39, 41, 44, 45, 54, 58, 64, 68, 71, 79, 80, 81, 90, 93, 95, 97, 104, 106, 108, 109, 117, 122, 130, 137, 141, 145, 163, 164, 166, 170, 179, 186, 187, 190, 192, 196, 202, 205, 207, 233, 253, 255, 259, 262, 263, 265, 281, 282, 288, 289, 294, 296, 298, 301, 312, 347, 350, 359, 361, 367, 383, 386, 401, 434, 455, 462, 464, 483, 498, 501, 502, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 512, 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520, 521, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 536, 537, 538, 539, 540

Nouvelliste, Le, 298

Novara. See Dominicus Maria Ferrariensis.

Novelli. See Paola Antonia (at Aquinas), 505

Novellucci, his electric plate machine, 256, 482

(Antologia di Firenze, August 1824, p. 159).

Novum Organum—Novum Organon—of Francis Bacon; Novum Organum, London, 1620, 1650, 1802; Lug. B., 1645, 1650; Oxford, 1878, 1889; Novum Organon, Lips., 1840; Clarend., 1813; Nuovo Organo, Bassano, 1788; Neues Organon, Berlin, 1793, xiv, 90, 92, 99, 103

Noya-Caraffa, Giovanni, Duke of (1715–1768), “Recueil de Mém. Æpinus” (Phil. Trans., LI. Pt. I, p. 396, 1759), 17, 193, 218

Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome, 9

Nuneberg, M. (at Ingen-housz, A.D. 1779), 257 (Scelta d’Opus., XVII. 113).

Nuñez—Nonius—Petrus (1492–1577), 530

Nouva Collezione d’Opuscoli scientifici ...: Bologna, 257

Nouva Scelta d’Opuscoli, Interessanti sulle scienze, 2 Vols.: Milano, 1804–1807.

See Amoretti, Carlo.

Nuovi annali della scienze naturali: Bologna.

Nuovi Lincei. See Rome, Accad. Ponteficia.

Nuovo Cimento, “Giornale di fisica, chimica ...,” edited by Matteucci and others, at Pisa and Torino.

Nürnberg, “Neues Journal für chemie und physik,” von Schweigger, J. S. Ch. von Vols. 1–30, 1811–1820 (30 Vols.), Vols. 31–42, 1821–1824 (12 Vols.); “Jahrbuch der chemie und physik ...,” Vols. 43–54, 1825–1828 (12 Vols.), Vols. 55–60, 1829–1830 (6 Vols.), Vols. 61–69, 1831–1833 (9 Vols.); “Journal für praktische chemie,” von Erdmann, Otto Linné, Vols. 1–108, 1834–1869 (108 Vols.), Vols. 1–14, 1870–1876 (14 Vols.).

Nyerup, Rasmus, “Univ. Annalen,” 158

Nyrén, Magnus (at Swedenborg, Em., A.D. 1734), 165

Nysten, Pierre Hubert (1771–1818), “Nouvelles expériences galvaniques,” 305

“Nyt Bibliothek fer Physik ...”: Kjobenhavn, 453, 455

“Nyt Magazin fer naturvidenskaberne:” Christiana, 29, 446

O

Oberst, J., “Conjecturæ ... magnetis naturam ...,” 1760, 555

Obert, Klindworth and Minkeler (at Ingen-housz, J., A.D. 1779), 257, 249

Observations sur la physique. See Rozier, François, 258–259;

Scudder, “Catalogue,” 1879, p. 110.

Oderigo, Nicolo, xx

Odier, Louis (1748–1817), 81, 82, 240

“Odyssey” of Homer, 5, 6

Oersted, Hans Christian (1770–1851), vii, 64, 81, 222, 345, 365, 366, 367, 376, 380, 381, 383, 384, 412, 413, 414, 421, 451–455, 456, 465, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476, 478, 482, 484

(Phil. Mag., XXIII. 129; LVI. 394; LIX. 462; Phil. Mag. or Annals, VIII, 230; Gehlen IV. Jour., III. 1804; VIII. 1808; Voigt’s Mag., III. 412; Schweigg. Jour., XX. 1817; XXIX. 1820; XXXII. and XXXIII. 1821; XXVIII. 1821–1822; LIII. 1828; Ann. Ch. et Phys., XXII. 1823; Oversigt over det Kongl. danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger, 1822–1823, 1823–1824, 1825–1826, and almost every year up to 1840 inclusively).

Offord, J., Jr. (at 321 B.C.), ix

Offusius, Joannes Franciscus, “De divina astrorum facultate,” 1570, 11

Ohm, Georg Simon (1787–1854). See Nipher, Francis Eugène, “Die galvanische Kelte mathematisch bearbeitet,” 1827; “Grundzüge der physik ...,” 1854, 384, 460

Ohm, Martin, brother of Georg Simon, “Spirit of mathematical analysis ...,” 1843.

Ohm’s Law, xiv, 384. Consult Crystal, George (“Electrician,” Vol. XXV. p. 309, 1890); Hopkinson, John (1849–1898), Lectures at Inst. Civil. Eng., London, Vol. I. pp. 81–106, 1844; Kohlrausch, R. H. A., also Tyndall, John (Phil. Mag., Ser. IV. Vol. III. pp. 321–330, 1852); Raymond, Jules, “Recherches ... loi d’Ohm,” 1870; Webb, F. C. (Phil. Mag., Ser. IV. Vol. XXXV. pp. 325–333, 1868).

Oken, Lorenz, 403–404

Olaus, Magnus, “Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus,” 1555, 71, 527

Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaüs (1758–1840), on the Zodiacal Light, etc., 141, 345, 462

Oldenberg, Henry, Secretary of the Royal Society (1615?-1677), 142, 547

Olfers, J. F. M., “Die-gattung torpedo ...,” 1831 (at Shaw, George, A.D. 1791), 298

Oliva, Joannes, Map of the World, A.D. 1613, 63

Oliva, Salvatore, Atlas showing both Americas, A.D. 1620, 63

Oliver, A., of Salem, Mass., Theories of lightning, thunderstorms and waterspouts (Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., O.S. II. 74, 101).

Olmstead—Olmsted—Denison (1791–1859), 141, 457, 458, 461;

“On the zodiacal light”; “Introduction to natural history.”

Omar Khayyám—Kheyyám (d. 1123), 38

Omont, Henri, xi

Ongania (at A.D. 1436), 63

Onimus and Legros, “Traité d’électricité médicale,” 386

“Onomasticon Literarium.” See Sax—Sachs.

“Operator, The,” publication commenced in New York during the year 1874; afterwards became “The Operator and the Electrical World.”

Oppermanno—Oppermanus—Septimus Andreas, 325, 326, 385.

Oppianus (fl. second century A.D.), “Halieutica,” 11

Opuscoli Act. Erudit.: Lips., 130

Opuscoli filosofici ..., 2 Vols.: Milano, 1827.

Opuscoli matematici e fisici ...: Milano, 257, 271, 295, 298

Opuscoli scelti sulle scienze e sulle arti, 22 Vols.: Milano and Bologna; Nuova collezione d’opuscoli scientifici ... 5 Vols.: Bologna, 1817–1824; Fr. Cardinali, Fr. Ovioli, and others, 175, 208, 241, 243, 248, 253, 254, 257, 258, 263, 270, 271, 272, 280, 281, 284, 295, 299, 306, 335, 347, 401.

See Amoretti and “Scelta di opuscoli interessanti ...”

Orb of Coition, 100

Orb of Virtue—Orbis Virtutis, 86, 100

Organe électrique artificiel. See Volta.

Oribasius Sardianus (born c. A.D. 325), 26, 531

Origanus recte Tost David, “Annorum Posterorium, XXX.,” 1609.

Origen, also called Adamantus (c. A.D. 185–254), 38

Orioli, F. See Opuscoli Scelti ..., 258

Orléans, “Société Royale des sciences ...,” Annales.

Ormoy, Abbé d’, 282

Orosius (fl. fifth century A.D.), Historarium.

Orphei Argonautica of A. C. Eschenbach, 554

Orpheus, Vedic Ribhu, “Argonautica,” “Lythica,” “Bacchia,” etc., edited by the very distinguished Greek scholar, Andrea Christian Eschenbach of Nuremberg (1663–1705), 519, 530–531

Orsini, Count de Rosenberg, 10

Ortell—Oertel—Abraham (1527–1598), 63

Osann, Gottfried Wilhelm (b. 1797), ten articles in Poggendorff’s Annalen on Electricity, Meteoric Iron, Phosphorescence, etc., from Vol. VIII. 1826 to Vol. CVI. 1859; Grundzüge der lehre von dem magnetismus und der elektricität, 1847.

Osbun, Prof., of Salem, Mass., 234

Osmose. See Endosmosis and Exosmosis.

Osorius—Osorio—de Fonseca, Jeronimo (b. 1506), “Histoire du Portugal,” Genève, 1581, 68

Ostertag, Johann Philipp (1734–1801), “... die Kentnisse der Alten von der Electricität” (Neue Abhandl. der Baierischen Akad., IV. 113, 1785); “Antiquarische Abhandl. über Gewitterelektricitat,” 1810.

Ostroy, van, 559

Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm (b. 1853), “Lehrbuch der Allgemeine Chemie” and “Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie,” 1887; established with Jacobus Hendrikus Van’t Hoff; “Elektrochemie,” 1896; “Ostwald’s Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften”: Leipzig, 284, 391, 455

Otté, E. C. See Humbolt, Alex. von “Cosmos.”

Otto’s letter to Benjamin Franklin, 67

Oudry, “Applications en grand de la galvanoplastie et de l’électro-métallurgie,” 1868.

Oughtred, W., “Descrip. ... double horiz. ... dyal ...,” 1674, 553

“Oversigt over det Kongl. danska Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandliger ...”: Kjobenhavn, 453, 454

Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.-A.D. 18), “Fastorum, libri xii”; “Metam. ... Numa ... Jupiter Elicius,” A.D. 17, 10, 462

Oviedo, Luis de, “Methodo de la coleccion ... medicinas simples,” 1622, 27

Oviedus, Gonzales. See Gonzalus Oviedus.

Ovioli, F. See Opuscoli Scelti, 257

Owen, Dr. Richard (1804–1892), 404

Owen, John—Oweni, Ioan (1560–1622), 523

Oxford University, Library, etc., 40, 99, 145, 151, 405, 497, 513, 530

Ozanam, Antoine Frédéric (1813–1853), 504

Ozanam, Jacques (1640–1717), “Récréations mathématiques,” 4 Vols. 1721, 1724, etc., 401

P

Pacchiani, Francesco Giuseppe (1771–1835), 392, 393, 419, 483

(Nuova Scelta d’Opuscoli, I. 277, 1804; Phil. Mag., XXIV. 176, 1806; Ann. Chim. di Brugnatelli, XXII. pp. 125, 135, 144, 1805).

Pac̄ifico, Salomone Ireneo (A.D. 776–846), 60

Pacini, Filippo (1812–1883), 299,

“Sopra l’organo elettrico del Siluro elettrico del Nilo ...,” 1846.

Pacinotti, Antonio (b. 1841), “Descrizione di una machinetta elettro-magnetica ...,” 1864. This is the author’s ring-armature with closed coils (Catal. of Wheeler Gift, No. 1601).

Pacinotti, L. (at Dalton, John, A.D. 1793), 308

Padova—Padua—Accademia, Saggi, Memorie, etc., 140, 253, 303, 304, 528

Padova—Padua—Annali della scienze naturali, 363

Padova—Padua—“Giornale Astro-Meteoroligico,” 254

Padova—Padua—Observatory, 254

Padova—Padua—University, 253, 455, 460, 499, 502, 506, 515, 528

Padova—Padua—University, history of, by Boulay, 505

Pæologue. See Paléologue.

Pagani, O. M. (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 385, on medical electricity.

Page, Charles Grafton (1812–1868), on new electrical instruments, induction, etc., etc. (Silliman’s Journal, XXVI.-XLIX.; Bibl. Univ., X. 398), 234, 283

Page, Charles G., and Rittenhouse, D. (Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., O.S. II. pp. 173, 175, 1786).

Page, John, of Williamsburg (at Rittenhouse, David, A.D. 1786), 282

Paisley, Lord, “Experiments on his loadstone,” 161.

See Hamilton, James (Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 245, 1729–1730).

Pajot-Laforest (at Aldini, Giovanni, A.D. 1793), 305

Palagi, A., “Nuove sperienze sull’ elettricità telluro-atmosferica” (Rendiconto dell’ Accad. delle scienze dell’ Ist. d’ Bologna, 1858, p. 72).

Paléologue, Georges Maurice, “L’Art Chinois,” 2, 3 (Acta Acad. Petropol., I. 1778; Phil. Trans. for 1776, 1778).

Palladius, Bishop of Helenopolis (A.D. 368–430), says that lodestone attracts the nails of ships....

Pallas, Peter Simon (1741–1811), 314, 451

Palm, G. A., “Der magnet in alterthum,” 1867, 15

Palma (Siciliano) Richerche medico-elettriche (mentioned by Bertholon, 1749).

Palmer, W. (at Pasley, C. W., A.D. 1808), 397

Palmieri, Luigi (b. 1807), 337, 416, 420;

Annali del Reale Osservatorio meteorologico ... Napoli, 1859 (Rendiconto dell’ Accad. di Napoli, IV. 1845; Giornale I.R. Istit. Lomb., N.S. 4, II. 346).

Palmieri, Luigi, and Linari-Santi, P., 337

Palmstedt, Carl (at Shaw, George, A.D. 1791), 299

Pameyer, George (at A.D. 1250), 34

Pancirollus, Guido (1523–1599), 22, 81, 123

Pander, Christian Heinrich, “Beiträge zur naturk,” 368

Pandulph, “History of Naples,” 211

Panormitano: name given to Anthony of Bologna.

Pantarbe, 10, 533

Paoli, Adrian (at 600–580 B.C.), 10

Paolo, Rev. Maestro. See Sarpi.

Paolo. See Paulus Æginæ.

Paolo, the Venetian. See Marco Polo—Paulum Venetum.

Papadapoli, Nicolaus Comnenus, 528

Para, “Cours complet ...,” 1772, 556

Paracelsus (1493–1541), 26, 64–65, 104, 301, 513, 529.

See Joannes Isaacus, Hollandus.

Paramagnetism, 494, 495

Paris, Académie Royale des Sciénces de L’Institut de France; Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires, X. and passim; La Connaissance des temps; Histoire et Mémoires de l’Académie, Table des articles ... depuis 1666 jusqu’en 1770 par Rozier, François (1734–1793); Recueil des pièces.

Paris, Annales de Chimie, par Guyton de Morveau, Lavoisier, etc., 1789–1815.

Paris, Annales de Chimie et de Physique, par Gay-Lussac. From January 1st, 1914, the work was divided into two distinct monthly sections: “Annales de Chimie” and “Annales de Physique.”

Paris, Astronomical Society, 481

Paris, Bureau des Longitudes, 481

Paris, Ecole-Faculté de Médecine, 273, 274, 284, 384, 385, 538

Paris, Faculté des Sciences, 373, 374

Paris, John Ayrton (1785–1856), “Life of Sir Humphry Davy,” 340, 341, 347

Paris, Magnetic Society, 425

Paris, Mémoires de, 207, 253, 268, 271, 279, 302, 320, 460

Paris Observatoire, 157, 268, 301, 477, 481, 482

Paris, Palais des Tuileries, telegraph erected upon, 329

Paris, “Paris et ses historiens,” 34

Paris Societies in addition to those elsewhere mentioned.

See Académie des Sciences, 1666–1790; Galvani Society; Institut Nationale; Journal; Société d’Encouragement; Société de Médecine; Société Médicale d’émulation; Société Philomatique; Société Philotechnique.

Paris University, 16, 530

Parke, translator of J. G. de Mendoza’s “History of the Kingdom of China,” 77

Parma University, 365

Parmenides of Elea (fl. fifth century B.C.) founder of the Eleatic Greek School of Philosophy, 511, 532, 543

Parrot, Georg Friedrich (1767–1852), 195, 308, 367, 368;

“Handbuch der Physik,” 195, 420.

See Voltaic pile, chemical theory of (Voigt’s Mag., IV. 1802; Gilb. Annal., XII. XXI. LV. LX. LXI.; Ann. de Chim. et Phys., XLVI.).

Parry (afterwards Sir), W. E., his magnetical observations, 139, 457

Parshall, Dr. Horace Field, xii

Parthey, Gustav Friedrich Constantin, 520

Partington, C. F. (at A.D. 1770), 232

Partington, M. (at Molenier, Jacob, A.D. 1768), 229

Pascalis, P. A., Mémoire sur l’électricité médicale, 1819, 385

Pasley, Sir Charles William (1780–1861), Telegraph, 397–398, 399, 442, 439 (Phil. Mag., XXIX. XXXV.).

Pasqual, A. R., “Descr. ... aguja nautica,” 1789, 556

Pastoret, Claude Emmanuel J. P. de, 542

Pasumot, Fra., “Observations sur les effets de la foudre,” 1774, 556

Paterson, William, Lieut.-Gov. of New South Wales (1755–1810), “On a new electrical fish, the Tetrodon electricus” (Phil. Mag. for 1786), 297

Patterson, Prof. Robert (1743–1824) (Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., O.S. II. 251, III. 321).

Patterson, R. M., on electricity from steam (Silliman’s Jour., XI. 1841).

Pauli, Adrian, 8

Paulian, Aimé Henri (1722–1801), 183, 205, 555

Paulsohm, P. (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 385

Paulum Venetum. See Polo, Marco, at A.D. 1271.

Paulus Ægenita—Æginata—Paul of Ægina, Greek physician (fl. seventh century A.D.), 20, 519

Paulus Jovius, “Historiarum sui temporis ...,” 1552, 58, 506, 507

Paulus Venetus. See Sarpi, Pietro, herein, at A.D. 1632.

Pauly, August Friedrich von, “Real-Encyclop. der class. Alterthums ...,” 25

Pauthier, Jean Pierre Guillaume, “Chine Ancienne,” 2, 3

Pavia, Rivista di Fisica, Mat. e Sc. Naturali, 57

Pavia University, 246, 284, 361, 424

Payssé, M., Expérience relative au galvanisme, 285, 306

Pazienti, A., “Dell’ azione ... dell’ elettrico e del magnetismo ...,” 1846 (Giornale Veneto di Scienza Medicale, V. Ser. II. 1855).

Peabody, Col. Francis (at A.D. 1771), 234

Peacock, Dr. George (at Young, Thomas, A.D. 1807), 396

Pearson, George (1751–1828), 324, 375 (Phil. Mag., XV. 274, 1803).

Pearson, Karl, “Grammar of Science,” 102

Pearson, Richard. See Royal Society.

Peart, Edward (1756–1824), “On electric atmospheres,” 1793, 312, 556

Peckham, John (John of London), 42, 45

Péclet, Jean Claude Eugène (1793–1857), “Essai historique sur l’électricité” (Ann. Chim. et Phys. an 1841, 3^e Série).

Pedacius, Greek botanist, 11

Pedemontani, Alexander, “De secretis ...,” 1560, 553

Peel, W., on the production of muriates (Phil. Mag., XXIII. 257), 392, 419

Peirce, Prof. C. Saunders, xx

Pell, John, “Gellibrand’s discourse on the variation of the magnetic needle,” 119

Pellechet, Marie, “Catalogue général des incunables,” 26, 37, 501, 504

Pelletan, Charles (at Volta, Alessandro, A.D. 1775), 247;

also (at Humboldt, Alex. von., A.D. 1799), 333,

and (at Fourcroy, Ant. Fr. de. A.D. 1801), 354

Pelletan, Philippe Jean (at Volta, A.D. 1775), 247

Pelliciarius. See Marbodeus Gallus.

Peltier, Jean Charles Athanase (1785–1845), discoverer of the Peltier effect.

See Le Roux, F. P. (Proc. Birmingham Philos. Soc., Vol. V. pp. 53–56, 1886; Edinb. New Philos. Journ., Vol. XXXVII. pp. 298–304 and Vol. XXXVIII. pp. 97–101, 1844–1845; Ann. Ch. et Phys., 1834, 1836, 1839). The well-known Peltier electroscope was anticipated by Milner, Thomas (1719–1797), in his “Experiments ...,” 1783, 204, 367, 381, 416

Peltierin (“Annales de Chimie,” LXV. p. 330), 321

Penada, Jacopo (at Dalton, John, A.D. 1793), 308

Pennsylvania University, 278, 319, 373, 435, 446

Penny Cyclopædia, edited by Charles Knight, 4, 11, 12, 19, 127, 264, 302, 317, 322, 438, 441

Penrose, F., “Treatise on electricity,” 1752; “Essay on magnetism,” 1753, 555

People’s Cyclopædia, 240

Pepper, J. H., “Cyclopædic Science,” “Voltiac electricity,” 223, 256, 304, 305, 336, 339

Pepys, Samuel, “Diary,” 127

Pepys, William Haseldine, Jr., 373

Pepys, William Haseldine, Sr. (1775–1856), 289, 338, 371–373, 378, 393, 403

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