Part 2 / Book 6 — INDEX

(Embracing much additional data.—See Preface)

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Abano—Apponensis, Aponus, Apianus, Apian, Bienewitz—Pietro di, “Tractatus de Venenis”; “Conciliator differentiarum ...,” 26, 35, 124, 501, 515, 526, 527.

See Mazzuchelli, G. M., “Gli Scrittori ...,” Vol. I. Part I. pp. 1–11; Bayle, Pierre, “Dictionnaire Historique ...,” Vol. I. pp. 383–386.

Abbas Messanensis. See Maurolico.

Abbeville, Hist. Chr. d’, par Nicolas Sanson, 108

Abbott, Evelyn, translator of Max Duncker’s “History of Antiquity,” 7

Abd-Allatif—Movaffik, Eddin—Arabian physician (1162–1231), “Relation de l’Egypte,” 299

Abderites (at School of Athens), 543

Abel, Dr. Clarke, of Brighton (at A.D. 1816, Phillip, W.), 437

Abercorn, J. Hamilton, Earl of, “Calculations ... loadstones.”

See Hamilton, James.

Aberdeen University (at Sir David Brewster), 466

Aberg, Ulrich Johann, “Comparatio ... magneticam,” 1792, 556

Abhand. Berlin Akademie der Wissenschaften, 192

Abhand. d. Göttingen Kön. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 445

Abhand. d. Mathem. ... Kön. Baierische Akad. der Wissenschaften: München, 1808–1824, 433, 477

Abhand. d. Naturforschende Gesellschaft: Halle, 414

Abhand. zur Geschichte der mathematik: Leipzig, 126, 520, 535, 538, 541

Abilgaard, Peter Christian (1740–1801), “Tentamina electrica,” 249

Abohalis. See Avicenna.

Abrégé de l’Astronomie. See Lalande, J. J. le François de.

Abrégé de l’histoire des Sarrazins. See Bergeron, Pierre.

Absorption, dielectric (at Faraday, Michael), 498

Abstracts of the papers printed in the Philosophical Transactions, 548.

See Royal Society, London.

Abul-Wéfa (Aboulwéfa), al bouzdjani (930–998), 93, 94, 512, 516

“Academia cæsarea leopoldino-carolina ... naturæ curiosum. ...” Hist. Nova Acta, etc.: Breslau Academy, 216, 273, 451

Academia electoralis inoguntina scientiarum utilium. Nova Acta, etc.: Erfurt, 12 Vols., 218

Academia electoralis scientiarum, also called Academia Theodoro-Palatina.

Academia scientiarum imperalis petropolitana. Commentarii, Nova Acta, etc.: St. Petersburg Imperial Academy, 140, 204, 214, 232, 273, 274, 368

Academia secretum naturæ, 75

Academia Theodoro-Palatina ... Commentarii (Historia et Commentationes).

See Manheim, also Hemmer, J. J.

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

Académie de Marine, 274

Académie de Médecine: Paris, 237

Académie des Curieux de la Nature. See Academia ... naturæ curiosum. ...

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres: Paris, 8, 520, 533

Académie des Sciences (Institut), Paris, Mémoires, Histoire, Table, etc. (Comptes Rendus, Les, will be found under separate head), 18, 34, 72, 81, 115, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139, 140, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 151, 152, 153, 155, 158, 160, 161, 162, 169, 171, 177, 178, 183, 190, 192, 198, 200, 201, 204, 205, 207, 214, 218, 220, 235, 237, 240, 248, 249, 262, 264, 266, 268, 270, 271, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 279, 280, 286, 288, 299, 300, 302, 303, 320, 329, 335, 337, 354, 380, 386, 387, 389, 395, 396, 407, 411, 412, 454, 455, 456, 460, 462, 466, 471, 476, 478, 479, 480, 481, 482, 485, 497

Académie du Gard, 10

“Academy and Literature,” 99.

(In June 1902, “Literature” was incorporated with “The Academy.”)

Academy of Lignitz, 174

Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, U.S.A., 356

Academy of Sciences. See American, Bavarian, Barcelona, Belgium, Besançon, Brescia, Brussels, Cambridge (U.S.A.), Copenhagen, Genoa (147), Lyons, Madrid, Manheim, Montpellier, Padua, Paris, Prague, Naples, Saint Petersburg, Stockholm, Turin, Washington, etc.

Accademia Bonon. et Istituto, Commentarii, 7 Vols. 1731–1791.

See Bologna Academy.

Accademia del Cimento, Saggi di naturali esperienze (Essays of natural experiments), Firenze (Florence), 96, 129, 143, 554.

See Tozzetti, Antinovi, also Magalotti, Iatromathematical school. Experiment at A.D. 1684, 143

Accademia Etrusca, Cortona, Italy, Memoirs, etc., Vols. I.-IX. 1755–1791, 58

Accademia Pontificia dei Nuovi Lincei, Roma, Atti, etc., 71, 380

Accumulator, electrical (secondary battery), first constructed by Ritter, J. W., 380

Acerbi (at Brugnatelli, L. V.), 363

Achard, Franz Carl (1753–1821), 262–263, 275, 282, 327, 332

Achromatic telescope, first construction, 214.

See Kelly, John.

Acide galvanique (Journal de Paris, No. 362).

See Robertson, E. G., 351

Ackermann, Johann Friedrich (1726–1804), “Medicinisch-chirurgische Zeitung”—on the contact theory—1792; “Versuch einer ... Körper”; “Nachrichten ...,” 249, 284, 327

Acoromboni, Francesco (at Sarpi, Pietro), 112

Acosta, C. d’, and Monardes, Nicholas, 516

Acosta, Joseph d’ (1540–1599), 21, 78, 118

“Acta Helvetica Physico-Mathematico. ...”

See Basle, Basel.

Acton, J. (at Chladni, E. F. F.), 314

Adam, Melchior, “Vitæ Germanorum Medicorum,” 508, 513

Adamantus. See Origen.

Adamas, 15

Adams (at Hali Abbas), 518

(Appendix, Barker’s Lemprière).

Adams, Charles Kendall, 38.

See Johnson’s Universal Cyclopædia, 38

Adams, George (1750–1795), “Essay on Electricity,” 1784, 1785, 1787, 1792, 1799; “Lectures ...,” 22, 160, 174, 201, 205, 206, 212, 231, 241, 258, 262, 263, 271, 280–281

Adams, John, President of U.S., 328

Adams’s language, the language of the Germans or Teutonic, 517

Adanson, Michel (1727–1806), 192–193, 218, 230, 296, 298, 374;

“Histoire naturelle du Senegal,” etc.

Addison, Joseph (1672–1719), “The Spectator” (March 1, 1711 to Dec. 6, 1712), 99

Adelard (Aetheland) of Bath—Adelardus Bathonïensis (twelfth century), 1302, 57

Adsigerius, Petrus, by W. Wenckebach, 1865, 48, 53

Ægineta—Æginata, Ægenita—Paulus.

See Paulus Ægenita.

Ælianus, Claudius (Greek writer who fl. c. A.D. 250), 270

Æneas, the tactician (at 341 B.C.), 12

“Æpinus atomized,” 218

Æpinus, Franciscus Maria Ulricus Theodorus (1724–1802), Mathematical theory of electricity (at A.D. 1759); “Sermo Academicus de similitudine vis electricæ atque magneticæ”; Petropoli, 1758; “Exposition de la théorie de l’électricité de M. Æpinus”: Paris, 1787, 17, 185, 205, 215, 217–218, 286, 309, 310, 353, 415, 472, 553

Aerolites, Meteorites, Meteorolites, Meteors, 125, 151, 161, 258, 295, 313, 314, 315, 376, 380, 396, 414, 503.

See Fisher, E. G.; Fletcher, L.; Naidinger, W. R. von; Bjorn, Hans O.; Moigno, F. N. M.; Perego, Antonio; also the references given by S. P. Thompson in his “Notes on the De Magnete of Dr. William Gilbert,” 1901.

Consult, likewise, the A.D. entries herein, as follows:

1790, Vassalli-Eandi, p. 295;

1794, Chladni, p. 313;

1801, Fourcroy, p. 354;

1803, Biot, E. C., p. 380;

1820, Laplace, p. 462

Aerolites, spontaneous ignition of, 313

Æschylus (525–456 B.C.), 3, 4.

See Euripides.

Æther—Ether—Ether theory, 12, 133, 183, 184, 213, 254, 360, 404, 498, 503

Ætius, Amidenus, Greek physician (fl. fifth to sixth century), 26, 27

“Afhandl. i Fisik” (Berzelius), 370

Affaitatus, Fortunius—Affaydatus—Italian physicist, 71.

See Mazzuchelli, G. M., “Gli Scrittori,” Vol. I. Part I. p. 165.

Africanus, Sextus Julius, Optical signals, 22

Agamemnon’s line of optical signals, 3, 4

Agathias of Myrene (fl. sixteenth century), “De imperio ... gestis Justiniani,” 1648, 10

Agencies of electricity (Humphry Davy), 364

Aglave et Boulard, “Lumière Electrique,” 150, 152, 154, 166, 350

Agricola, Georgius—Bauer—Landmann (1494–1555), “De re metallica,” 501–502.

See Bayle, Pierre, “Dict. Historique,” Vol. I. pp. 139–140.

Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius (1486–1535), 82, 502;

“De occulta philosophia,” etc. See Bayle, Pierre, “Dict. Historique,” Vol. I. pp. 145–156.

Agulhas (Aguilhas), Cape (the Needles)—Capo d’Agulhas, most southerly point of Africa.

See Wm. Gilbert, by Gilbert Club, 1900, p. 178;

also Wm. Gilbert, by P. F. Mottelay, 1893, p. 266.

Ahrens, J. E. W., “Dissertatio ... qualitate et quantitate electricitis ...”: Kiel, 1813.

Aikin, John (1747–1822), “General Biography,” 10 Vols. 1799–1815, 92, 131, 245, 311

Air, plate of, electrified like a plate of glass, 205, 215, 217

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801–1892), 335, 461

Akademie der Wissenschaften und ihre Gegner. See Bavarian Academy.

Akenside, Mark, “The pleasures of imagination,” 555

Akin, C. K., on the origin of electricity (Trans. Phil. Soc. Cambridge), 1866.

Albategnius, Mahometes—Machometes Aractensis—Al-Battānī, a very prominent Arabian astronomer and mathematician (d. A.D. 929), 502

Al-Battānī. See Albategnius.

Albert, M., “Amer. Ann. d. Artz,” 224

Albertus Magnus, the “Universal Doctor” (1193–1280), “De Mineralibus,” 16, 17, 18, 27, 34, 35–37, 39, 72, 82, 119, 125, 171, 524–525

Albinus, F. B., “Specimen ...” (at Chladni, E. F. F.), 314

Albo, Comte Prosper (at Galvani, A.), 284

Albrecht, Duke of Prussia, 70

Albrecht, G. T., “Geschichte der Electricität,” 206

Albumazar (A.D. 805–885), prominent Arabian astronomer.

Alcazar, Ludovicus (at Zahn, F. J.), 146

Alchimie d’ Avicenne, 40

Alchimie et Alchimistes, 506.

See Figuier, Louis G.

Consult also “English books on alchemy” in Notes and Queries, 8th ser., xi, 363, 464.

Alchimistes du moyen-âge, 514

“Alchemy of Happiness,” by Mohammed Al-Ghazzali, 38

Alchemystical Philosophers, Lives of, 516

Alcibiades (c. 450–404 B.C.), 543

Aldini, Giovanni, nephew of Aldini (1762–1834), 270, 283, 304, 306, 326, 327, 331, 365, 366, 367, 374, 375, 393, 418, 419.

See “Essai théorique et expérimental sur le galvanisme,” 1804.

Aldrovandi—Aldrovandus—Ulysses, Ulisse (1522–1607), 8, 13, 72, 112, 113, 114, 126.

“Musacum Metallicum.”

Alemanni, P. (Phil. Mag., Vol. XXVII. p. 339, 1807), 393

Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’ (1717–1783), French mathematician, “Eléments de philosophie,” 1759; “Traité de dynamique”: Paris, 1743, 1781, 1796.

Alessandrini, Antonio, “Biografia Italiana”: Bologna, 1858.

See Bologna, “Nuovi Annali.”

Alexander Aphrodisacus—Aphrodisiensis (second century A.D.), 503, 511, 512.

See Speng, also Joannes Petrus, Lucensis.

Alexander, Emperor of Russia (at Schilling, P. L.), 421

Alexander, James (at Franklin, B.), 197

Alexander of Hales (d. 1245), 35, 38–39.

Doctor Irrefragabilis.

Alexander the Great, King of Macedon (356–323 B.C.), 81, 333, 530

Alexandre, Jean (at A.D. 1802), 360–361

“Alexandria and her schools,” Charles Kingsley, 534

Alfarabius—Alpharabius—Al-Farabi (870–950), 37–38

Alfonso Diego. See Diego.

Alfonso el IX. (Alfonso—Alonzo—X., according to chronological order); “Las siete Partidas ...,” 60, 544

Alfonso the Tenth. See Alfonso el IX.

Al Gazel—Al Ghazzali (1058–1111), 37, 38

Alibard, Thomas François d’. See Dalibard.

Alibert, C., “Eloges ...,” 240, 258, 284

Alizeau (at Aldini, G.), 305

Alkalies, fixed decomposition of, 340, 341, 343, 372

Allamand, Jean Nicholas Sebastian (1713–1787), 170, 173, 299

Allen, Z., “Philosophy of the Mechanics of Nature,” 1852.

Allen, Z., and Hare, R., 449

Allen, Z., and Pepys, W. H., 372.

See also Romagnosi; Mazzuchelli, G. M., “Gli Scrittori,” Vol. I. Part I. 403–408; Bayle, Pierre, “Dict. Historique,” Vol. I. pp. 212–213.

Alleyne, S. F., Translator of E. Zeller’s “Hist. of Greek Philosophy,” 511

Allgem. ... Annal. der Chemie. See Scherer, A. N.

Allgem. bauzeitung ... von Förster, L. von: Wien, 1836–1876, 422, 440

Allgem. Deutsche Bibliothek, 256

Allgem. Deutsche Biographie: Leipzig, 218, 384.

See Mitscherlich and Tralles, J. G.

Allgem. Encyklopædie. See Ersch and Gruber.

Allgem. Gelehrten Lexicon. See Jöcher, C. G., 71

Allgem. Journal der Chemie. See Scherer, A. N.

Allgem. Koust-en-Letterb. See Vorsellmann de Heer.

“Allgem. Literatur-Zeitung”: Halle, 413

Allgem. Magazin der Natur-Kunst. See Lipsiae.

“Allgem. Nördlische Annalen der Chemie ...” See Scherer, A. N.

Alliaco, Cardinal Petrus de—Pierre d’ Ailly (1350–1420), Chancellor of the Paris University; “Imago Mundi,” 34

Allibone, S. Austin, “Critical Dictionary of English Literature,” 92, 102, 132

Almagests of Aboulwéfa, Ptolemy, Riccioli, and others, 55, 512, 513, 516

“Almagestum Novum. Astronomiam ...”; Bologna, 1651. See Riccioli, G. B.

Al-Majusi—Hali Abas, 518

Alphabetical, Autographic, Autokinetic, Automatic, and other telegraphs.

Consult Index to Catalogue of Wheeler Gift to Am. Ins. El. Eng., Vol. II. pp. 453–463.

Alphonso Diego. See Diego.

Alphonso, King of Arrago (at School of Athens), 544

Altdorf (Franconia), University of, 129

Althaus, Julius von (b. 1791), “Versuche ... elektromagnetismus ...”: Heidelberg, 1821, 326

Alvord, General B. H. W., U.S.A., 259, 260

Amænitates academicæ ...: Stockholm.

Amænitates literariæ ..., 202

Amand, Walkiers de Saint, of Brussels (Lichtenberg Mag., III., 118, 1785), 448, 449

Amatus Lusitanus. See Lusitanus Amatus.

Amaury, Marrigues à Montfort l’, 1773, 385

Amber. See Electron, 10

Amber and the Magnet, different names given to them by the ancients.

See the numerous citations made by Dr. S. P. Thompson in his “Notes” on Gilbert’s De Magnete.

Amber, historical account of, in Phil. Trans. for the year 1699, Nos. 248 and 249

Amécourt, Ponton d’, 285

America, name given to New World in honour of Am. Vespuccius, 535

American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Boston, 199, 259, 371

American Annual of Scientific Discovery. See Annual.

American Association, 1868, 389, 487

American Association for the advancement of science, 260, 315

American Electrical Society Journal: Chicago, Ill.

American Electrician: New York, 1896–1905.

American Institute of Electrical Engineers: New York, xiv

American Journal of Psychology, 445, 476

American Journal of Science and the Arts: New Haven, U.S.A., 1818 to date.

See Silliman, B.

American Meteorological Journal, 321

American Philosophical Society. Transactions, etc.: Philadelphia, Penn., 67, 193, 228, 237, 241, 259, 282, 283, 298, 299, 319, 327, 328, 329, 337, 354, 373, 448, 449, 557

American Polytechnic Review, 367

Amerigo Vespucci, the Florentine. See Vespucci.

Ames, Joseph, Typog. Antiq. (Herbert): London, 1749, 95

Ammersin, Rev. Father Windelinus—Wendelino, of Lucerne, 209

Ammoniacal amalgam first explained by Berzelius and Pontin, 370

Amontous, Guillaume (1663–1705), 143, 149, 254, 301, 434

Amoretti, Carlo (1741–1816), “Nuova scelta d’opuscoli,” 2 Vols.: Milano, 1804 and 1807; “Scelta di Opuscoli,” 36 Vols., and its sequel in 22 Vols.: Milano, 208, 224, 233, 248, 252, 253, 254, 257, 295, 298, 337, 347, 367, 383, 387, 393, 401.

See Ritter, Johann Wilhelm.

Amort, Eusebius (1692–1775), “Philosophia Pollingana ...”: Augsburg, 1730.

Ampelius, Ansonio Lucius (fl. third century A.D.), “Liber Memorialis,” 18

Ampère, André Marie (1775–1836), “Théorie des phénomènes électro-dynamiques ...,” 1826; “Memoires sur l’action mutuelle ...,” 1820–22, 1826, 1827; “Analyse des Mémoires ...” (Ann. de Phys. de Bruxelles, Vol. VII.), 7, 344, 352, 356, 375, 380, 420, 421, 422, 452, 454, 455, 456, 458, 459, 460, 471–476, 478, 482, 483, 484, 485.

The unit of current was named after Ampère; the other electrical measures are: the Volt, unit of pressure; the Ohm, unit of resistance, and the Watt, unit of power.

Ampère, A. M., and Babinet, J. See Babinet Jacques;

also Nipher, Francis Eugène.

Ampère, Jean Jacques Antoine (1800–1864), 476

Amsterdam, “Vaderlandsche Biblioteek ...,” I., 1773–1796.

Amyot—Amiot—Le Père (1718–1794), 259

Anacharsis, Travels in Greece, 291

Analogia electricitatis et magnetismi.

See Swinden, J. H. van, 272;

also Cigna, G. F., 224

Analogy between caloric and the electric fluid, 386

Analogy of electricity and lightning.

See articles on Franklin and on Nollet.

Anaxagoras of Clazomene (500–428 B.C.), one of the greatest Greek philosophers, 15, 503, 511, 512, 524, 532, 542

Anaximander of Miletus (610–547 B.C.), 503;

successor of Thales.

Anaximenes of Miletus (born c. 528 B.C.), 503.

See Speng.

Andala, Ruardus, “Exercitationes academicæ ...,” 1708, 122

Anciennes relations des Indes et de la Chine, par E. Renandot, 60

Andrew, the Florentine—(Andrea Florentino—mentioned in Guerino’s Venetia, 1477 folio), 57

Andrews, Professor (at Keir, James), 297

Andrieux, Professor François Emile, “Mémoire ...,” 1824, 326, 476

Andry et Thouret, “Observations et recherches sur l’aimant,” 245.

(Reuss, Repertorium, xii, 18.)

Angell, John, “Magnetism and electricity,” 28

Angelstrom, D. (at Dalton, J.), 308

Anglade, J. G., “Essai sur le galvanisme,” 326

Angos, Mr. le Chevalier d’, 235

Angström, Anders Jöns (1814–1874), Swedish physicist who wrote extensively on magnetism, heat, and on the Zodiacal Light, 141

Animal Magnetism. See Magnetism, Animal.

Annalen der chemie. See Scherer, A. N.

Annalen der chemie, von Liebig (Justus von): Heidelberg.

Annalen der pharmacie. See Liebig, Justus von.

Annalen der physik und chemie, Johann Christian Poggendorff: Leipzig.

See Journal der Physik, von F. A. C. Gren.

Annalen der physik und chemie.

See Halle, also Journal der Physik, von F. A. C. Gren.

Annalen der physik und der physikalischen chemie, L. W. Gilbert: Halle und Leipzig.

See Halle, also Journal der Physik, von F. A. C. Gren.

Annalen der telegraphie.

See P. W. Brix, also “Zeitschrift des Deutsch-Oesterreichischen ...”

Annalen für das universalsystem der elemente ... von Sertürner: Göttingen.

Annalen für meteorologie.... See Johann Lamont.

Annales de chimie. See Mons, Jean Baptiste van.

Annales de chimie et de physique, par Gay-Lussac, etc., Vols. I.-LXXV, etc.: Paris, 119, 140, 157, 195, 218, 230, 233, 247, 248, 249, 261, 270, 279, 280, 284, 290, 291, 294, 297, 299, 306, 321, 335, 340, 344, 347, 348, 350, 352, 354, 355, 363, 368, 370, 372, 376, 378, 383, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 396, 406, 412, 414, 416, 420, 423, 426, 434, 441, 454, 455, 459, 462, 464, 473, 475, 476, 477, 478, 479, 482, 483, 485, 487, 494, 495

Annales de chimie ..., par De Morveau, etc., Vols. I.-XCVI., 1789–1815.

See Paris.

Annales d’électricité et de magnétisme ... publicés, par Mr. Georges Dumont: Paris, 1889–1890.

Annales de geographic et de bibliographie, 34, 58, 59, 536

Annales de la Société de Médecine de Montpellier.

See Montpellier.

Annales de la Société des Sciences d’Orléans, Vols. I.-XIV., 1819–1836.

Annales de l’électricité: Bruxelles, 1882–1884.

Annales de l’électricité médicale, 326

Annales de l’Observatoire de Bruxelles.

See Brussels, also Quetelet, L. A. J.

Annales de physique de Bruxelles, 476

Annales des mines, 380, 455

Annales des sciences et des arts ... par Maisonneuve: Paris, 1808–1809.

Annales des sciences faisant suite au Journal des Savants, 551

Annales du Magnétisme Animal: Paris.

Annales du Museum d’histoire naturelle.

See Museum.

Annales Encyclopédiques.

See Millin de Grandmaison.

Annales générales de sciences physiques et naturelles: Bruxelles, 1819–1831, par MM. Bory de St. Vincent, Drapez et Van Mons, 255

Annales Mundi. See Briet, Philippe.

Annales, or, a generalle chronicle of England, by Stow, John, 211

Annales Ord. Min. See Wadding.

Annales politiques, 265

Annales télégraphiques: Paris, 368, 423

Annali del Reale Osservatorio Meteorologico ... Napoli.

See Palmieri, Luigi.

Annali delle scienze del Regno Lombardo Veneto, del Fusinieri (Ambrogio): Padova, Milano, Venezia, 298, 314

Annali delle scienze naturali: Bologna.

Annali delle scienze naturali. See Padua.

Annali di chimica, dall Polli, Vols. I.-XLVIII.: Milano, 1845–1868.

Annali di chimica ..., di Brugnatelli, L. V.: Pavia.

Annali di fisica, chimica ..., Majocchi, Giov. Aless.: Milano.

Annali di fisica ..., dell’ Zantedeschi, Franc.: Padova.

Annali di matematica pura a applicata ..., da Tortoloni, Barnàba: Roma, 54

Annali di scienze ... da Tortoloni, Barnaba, etc.: Roma.

Annali di scienze matematiche e fisiche, da Tortoloni, Barnaba, 8 Vols.: Roma, 1850–1857.

Annali di storia naturale: Bologna.

Annalium Hirsaugiensium ... 1690.

See Trithemius, Johannes.

Annals of Caius Cornelius Tacitus, 140

Annals of chemistry ... electricity, galvanism ...: London.

Annals of chemistry. See Philosophical Magazine.

Annals of Clan-mac-noise, 139

Annals of electricity, magnetism and chemistry.

See Sturgeon, Wm.: London, 1836–1843.

Annals of philosophical discovery....

See Sturgeon, Wm.

Annals of philosophy, or magazine of chemistry ... and the arts.

See Thomson (Thos.); united with the Philosophical Magazine.

Annals of Turin Observatory. See Turin.

Année Scientifique et Industrielle.

See Figuier, Louis.

Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes, 195, 266, 315, 321, 481

Annual of scientific discovery: Boston 1850–1851; edited by Wells, D. A. and others (continued as Annual Record of Science and Industry), 300, 330, 386, 416, 445, 449, 460, 476, 481, 498

“Annus Magnus,” the work of Aristarchus of Samos, covering 2484 years, 505

Anschell, Salmon (at Humboldt, Alex. von), 333

Anselmo, Georgio (at Aldini, Giov.), 305

Ansicht der chemischen naturgesetze.

See Niebuhr Karsten.

Antheaulme—Antheaume, M. de l’académie des sciences, “Traité sur les aimans artificiels,” 1760, 190, 274

Anthony of Bologna, called the Panormitan, 56

Anthropo-telegraph of Knight Spencer, 400

“Anti-Jacobin Magazine,” 311

Anti-magnetic bodies, observations on, 387

Anti-Nicene Christian Library, 525

Antinori, “Notizie istoriche ... Accad. del Cimento”: Firenze, 1841; Antinori and Nobili, 477

Antiochenus, Stephanus (at Hali-Abas), 519

Anti-phlogistic doctrine, 261, 386

Antipodes and rotundity of earth ridiculed, 523–525

Antiquitates Americanæ, 115

Antiquitates Italiæ Modii-Acri, 539

Antisthenes, Greek philosopher (b. 423 B.C.); founder of the Cynic school of philosophy, 543

“Antologia, giornale di scienze ..., dir Vieusseux”: Firenze, 256, 482

Antologia Romana. See Gandolfi, B.

Antonia, Paola (Novelli), 505

Antonii, Bibl. Hisp. Vetus., 39

Antonio, Nicolas, “Bibl. Hisp. Nova,” 528

Antonius de Fantis. See Fantis.

Antonius Musæ Brasavolus. See Brasavolus.

“Aperçus historiques sur la boussole.”

See Avezac d’.

Aphron (south) and Zohron (north), 33, 35

Apianus. See Abano.

Apjohn, James (at Pearson, Geo.), 325

Apollo (at School of Athens), 543

Apollonius of Perga (born c. 262 B.C.), 540, 541

Apollonius of Tyana (fl. first century A.D.). Life of, by Philistratus, 8, 533

Aponus. See Abano.

Appleton and Company, “New American Cyclopædia,” 22 Vols.; “Dictionary of Machines, Mechanics ...,” 22, 149, 255, 286, 316, 317, 318, 446, 449, 481

Apuleius—Appuleus (fl. second century), “Apologia and Florida”: Leipzig, 1900, 8

Aquinas. See Thomas Aquinas.

Aractensis Machometes. See Albatagnius.

Arago, Dom. François Jean (1786–1853), vii, 126, 138, 142, 166, 190, 195, 208, 228, 248, 259, 266, 309, 315, 321, 344, 375, 380, 389, 396, 412, 416, 417, 455, 461, 464, 472, 476, 477–481, 482, 484, 485, 520

Aranjuez-Madrid, telegraph line, 1798, 318

Aratus of Soli, in Cilicia (born c. 315 B.C.), 533

Arcana of science and art ...: London, 1828–1838.

Archelaus, Greek philosopher of the fourth century B.C., surnamed Physicus, 503, 532, 542

“Archeologia philosophica nova ...”: London, 1663, 4, 210.

See Harvey, Gideon.

Archimedes (c. 287–212 B.C.), whom Lodge calls the “father of physics,” 533, 540, 541, 544

Archives de l’électricité, par Rive, M. A. de la; Supplément à la “Bibliothequè Universelle,” de Genève.

Archives der mathematik und physik. See Grundig, C. G.

Archives des sciences....See Genève.

Archives des sciences physiques. See “Bibliothèque Universelle”: Genève.

Archives du magnétisme animal, 237

Archives du Musée Tyler, 160

Archives du Nord, pour la physique et la médecine: Copenhagen, 353

Archives ... Ges. Natural, 288

Archives für chemie und meteorologie. See Kastner, K. W. G.

Archives für ... naturlehre. See Kastner, K. W. G.

Archives littéraires, 351

Archives Néerlandaises, 142

Archytas of Tarentum (c. 428–347 B.C.), Greek scientist of the Pythagorean school, 532, 544

Arcothea (at School of Athens), 543

Arcueil, La Société d’, 236, 386, 389

Arcy, Patrik d’ (1725–1799), 177

Arderon, M. (at Milly, N. C. de Thy), 235

Ardoniis—Ardonyis—Santes de, Pisaurensis; “Liber de Venenis,” 1492, 26

Arella, Carnerale Antonio, “Storia dell’ Elettricita,” 2 Vols., 1839, 296

Arezzo, Ristoro d’, 50

Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August (1799–1875), in the Vörtragen geh. in der Königsberg Gesellschaft, 139

Argelatti, Philippo, native of Bologna (1685–1755), “Biblioth. Mediol.,” 528, 540

Argentelle, Louis Marc Antoine Robillard d’ (1777–1828), 302, 303

Argolus, Andreas, “Epistola ad Davidem,” 1610, 553

Aristarchus of Samos (fl. 280–264 B.C.), Greek astronomer, 505, 519, 530, 533, 541

Aristotle (384–322 B.C.), xix, 7, 11, 15, 21, 33, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 43, 57, 81, 88, 124, 129, 136, 230, 323, 333, 370, 503, 504, 507, 511, 524, 532, 533, 537, 539, 541, 543.

“De Anima, libri tres ...”; “De Cœlo, libri quatuor ...”; “De Generatione ... libri duo ...”; “Meteorologicorum, libri quatuor ...”; “De naturali auscultatione ...”; Joannes a Trinitate; Joannes Baptista, 1748; Joannes de Mechlinea.

See Jourdain, C. M. G. B.; Scaliger, J. C.; Speng, Leonhard; Taylor, Thomas.

Arlandes, Comte d’ (at Charles, J. A. C.), 288

Arlensis, “Sympathia septem metallorum,” 1610, 553

Arlincourt, M. d’ (at Cruikshanks, Wm.), 338

Armagh Observatory, 92

Armangaud, Jeune. See “Electricité L’.”

Armed loadstones or magnets, 86 (Gilbert), 100 (Bacon).

Armées Météores, Les, 115

Armstrong and Faraday (at Schübler, G.), 416

Armstrong, Sir William George, First Lord, F.R.S., “Electric Movement in Air and Water” (1810–1900).

Arnaldus de Villa Nova—Arnaud de Villeneuve, dit de Bachuone (1235–1312); “Tractatus de virtutibus herbarum,” 27, 505–506

Arnaud and Porna, 385

Arnim, Ludwig Achim von (1781–1831), “Versuch. einer theorie ...”; “A treatise on the magnet”: Halle, 1799, 285, 393, 557

Arnold, Brother, “La Salle Institute” (Peregrinus), 45

Arnold, Matthew, Oxford Lectures, 6

Arrais, Edoardo, Madeira—Arraes, Duarte Madeyra, 135–137

Arrhenius, Claudius—Claes—Clas (1627–1694), 140, 141.

See “Nouv. Biogr. Univ.” 351–352

Arrhenius, Svante August, Director of the Physico-Chemical Department of the Nobel Institute, Stockholm (1859), 391, 392

Arriaga, Rodericus de, 505

Arsaces, Queen of Ethiopia, 8

Arsinoë, temple of, 18

Arsonval, Arsène d’ (1851), 420

Artaxerxes Mnemon, King of Persia (404–358 B.C.), 196

“Art de vérifier les dates....” See Saint Allais, 2

Art of making signals, both by sea and by land, 149

Arts and Sciences, New Universal History of, 155

Arts (Royal), Society of, London.

See Journal of the Society of Arts: London.

Asclepius, the ascendants or horoscopes of, 541

(fl. end of fifth century A.D.).

Ash, Dr. Edward (on the action of metals ...), 337

Ashburner, Dr. John, translator of Reichenbach’s “Physico-Physiological Researches,” 140, 401

Askesian Society, founded by Pepys, W. H., and others, 371

Association, British, for the advancement of science.

See British Association.

Astatic needles, invented by Ampère (A.D. 1820), 473, 475

Asterisks, large and small, in Gilbert’s De Magnete, 83, 545

Astrolabe (at A.D. 1235–1315), invented by Hipparchus, 32, 46, 54, 148 (Bion), 520, 530

Astronom. Jahrbuch of Schumacher for 1838 (entered at Oersted, A.D. 1820), 455

Astronomia Britannica. See Newton, John.

Astronomical Society of France. See Paris.

Astronomical Society of Great Britain. See London.

Astronomische Abhandlungen of Schumacher (entered at Fraunhofer, A.D. 1814–1815), 432

“Astronomische Gesellschaft Vierteljahrschrift:” Leipzig, 1866–1876, 165

Astronomy, Historical account of, 521

Astruc, Jean, “Historie de la faculté de médecine de Montpellier,” 506

Ateneo, Commentarii, Perego, Antonio: Brescia.

Ateneo di Venezia. See Venetian Athenæum.

Athenæ Britannicæ. See Davies, Myles-Miles.

Athenæ Cantabrigienses. See Cooper, C. H.

Athenæ Oxionenses. See Wood, Anthony à.

“Athenæum:” London, 33, 134, 209, 495, 496

Athenæum of Treviso, 253

Athens, School of, 542–544

Atkinson, H. (at Chladni, E. F. F.), 314

Atlantic line of no declination, 64

“Atlantic Monthly,” 114

Atlas showing charts of magnetic variation, 62

Atmosphere, electricity of the, 319–321

Atmospheric electricity. See Electricity, atmospheric.

“Atmospheric magnetism” (taken from Jameson’s Journal), 498

Atomic doctrine of Leucippus and Democritus, 512

Atomic theory of chemistry, 307

Atomistic philosophy, 512

Atoms, doctrine of, 543

Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei: Roma.

Atti (also Memorie) dell’ I. R. Istituto Venet. di scienze.

See Venetian I. R. Institution.

Attractive poynt of Robert Norman, 76

Atwood, George, “A description ... natural philosophy,” 1776, 212

Aubenas, George Adolphe. See Miller, B. E. C.

Aubert, H., “Electrometrische Flasche”: Paris, 1789, 282

Aubrelicque of Compiègne, 34

Augé, Claude. See Larousse, Pierre.

Augustin, Friedrich Ludwig (b. 1776), “Vorn Galvanismus ...”: Berlin, 1801; “Versuch einer geschichte ... elektricität ...,” 1803, 326, 383

Augustine, Aurelius, Saint (354–430), the most prominent of the Latin Fathers of the Church, xix, 18, 20, 21, 25–26, 73, 74, 124, 523, 525.

See Monroe Cyclopædia, Vol. I. pp. 300–301.

Aumale, Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d’Orleans, duc d’ (1822–1907).

See Dazebry, Charles, et Bachelot, The., “Dictionnaire ...” p. 300, xix.

Aurifaber, Andreas (1512–1559), “Succini historia”: Konigsberg, 1551, 8

Aurora Australis, or Southern Polar Light, 141.

See Ulloa, A. de, 165–166

Aurora Borealis, or Northern Polar Light, 138–141;

its first distinctive name, Nororljós, was given it by the Icelandic settlers of Greenland (Cleasby and Vigfusson’s Dictionary), 114, 396.

Consult the entries herein under A.D. 1683, pp. 137–141,

also at Dalton, pp. 307–308;

1793–1797, Robison, pp. 308–311;

1799, Humboldt, pp. 330–335;

1807, Young, pp. 395–396;

1820, Arago, pp. 477–481.

Consult Ramus, J. F., and Capron, J. Rand.

Auroræ Boreales, Catalogue of, 140

Auroræ Boreales, Chronological Summary of Authors, 140

Auroræ Boreales, Theory of Max Hell, 233

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (c. A.D. 309–393), “Mosella,” 11, 18

Austen. See Roberts, Austen.

Autolycus of Pitana, Greek astronomer, author of “De Sphæra” (fourth century B.C.), 541

Autun, Honorius d’, “Imago Mundi,” 35

Autun. See Société d’Agriculture.

“Avazamenti della Medicina e Fisica.” See Brugnatelli, L. V.

Avelloni, D. d’, “Lettera ... al fuoco elettrico,” 315, 555

Avempace, Arabian philosopher (d. 1138), 36, 39

Averroës, Muhammed Ibn Ahmed Ibn-Roschd (1120–1198), 36, 38, 39–40, 124, 544.

See Bayle, P., “Dict. Historique,” Vol. I. pp. 552–562

Averroës et l’Averroïsme. See Renan.

Averroïsme au xiii^e siècle, 37, 505

Avezac, M. d’, “Aperçus historiques sur la boussole,” 1858–1860, 63, 536

Avicenna—Abu ’Ali Hufain Ibn ’Abd Allah, Ibn Siná, Abohalis (980–1037), 22, 26, 27, 36, 37, 40, 169, 509, 516

Avogadro, Amadeo, Comte de Quaregna (1776–1856).

Consult Bibl. Univ. Suppl. Arch. l’Electricité, Vol. II. pp. 102–110; Mem. di Torino for 1823 and 1846; Botto, G. D.

Axon, William Edward Armitage (Proc. Phil. Soc. of Manchester, Vol. 16, pp. 166–171, 1877, relative to Strada); “On the history of the word telegraph” (Proc. Lit. Soc. of Manchester, Vol. 19, pp. 182–184, 1880).

Ayres, Brown (Journ. Franklin Inst., Ser. 3, Vol. 75, pp. 378–393 and Scientific American Supplement, July 6, 1878, concerning the telephone).

Ayrton and Perry (at Faraday, M.), 492

Ayrton, William Edward. See Romagnosi (Journ. of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1871), 492

Azais, Pierre Hyacinthe (b. 1766), “Theorie générale de l’électricité, du galvanisme et du magnetisme,” 1807, 248

Azuni, Domenico Alberto (1749–1827), “Dissertation sur l’origine de la boussole,” 1805 (Dissertazione sull’ origine della bussola nautica, 1797), 1, 3, 17, 22, 30, 31, 33, 43, 55, 57, 60, 69

Azyr, Vicq d’, 302, 303

B

Babbage, Charles (1792–1871) at p. 467 and mentioned at p. 466

Babinet, Jacques (1794–1872) and Ampère, A. M., “Exposé des nouvelles découvertes, par Oersted ...”: Paris, 1822, 475, 482, 483

Babington, Dr. William (1756–1833), (at Cruikshanks, Wm., A.D. 1800), 338

Babini, G. (at Morichini, D. P., A.D. 1812–1813), 424

Bacelli, Liberto Giovanni (1772–1835), “Risultati dell’ esperienze ...,” 455, 479

Bache, Dr. William (at Mesmer, F. A., A.D. 1772), 237

Bacher, Alex. André Philippe Frédéric, Recueil périodique: “Journal de médecine,” 307

Bacon, Francis, Baron Verulam, called by Sir Oliver Lodge “the herald of the dawn of science” (1561–1626), “Novum Organum”—Novum Organon—Bibliographical Account, xiv, 88, 89, 90, 92, 99–103, 129, 167, 171, 511

Bacon, Roger—Bacconis, Rogerii—(1214–1294), les éditions de.

See Monroe, “Cyclopædia,” Vol. I. pp. 316, 317,

also pages herein, 16, 34, 36, 37, 41–43, 45, 59, 119, 124, 137, 171

Baddam, Benjamin. See Royal Society.

Bærle, K. van. See Barlæus.

Baffin, William, Baffin’s Bay, 98

Bagdad Observatory; also Bagdad University, 38

Baguette divinatoire. See Divining rod.

Baierischen (Bavarian), Akad. Neue Abhandlungen, 272, 316

Baïlak—Baïlik—of Kibdjack, 55, 59, 87

Bailey, Nathan—Nathaniel—(d. 1742), “Dictionarium Britannicum ...,” 1736, 555

Baillet, Adrien, “Jugement des savants,” 109, 515

Bailly, Jean Sylvain, “Histoire de l’astronomie moderne,” 513

Bain, Alexander (at Coxe, John Redman, A.D. 1816), 436

Bain, William (1775–1853) (at Barlow, Peter, A.D. 1820), 457

Bajon, M. (d. 1790) (at Bancroft, Edward Nathaniel, A.D. 1769), 230

Baker, H. (at Ingen-housz, Johan), 257,

and (at Pearson, George), 326

Bakewell, Frederick C., “A manual of electricity,” 3rd ed., publ. in 1859; “Electric Science, its history ...,” 1853, 152, 223, 284, 338, 347, 381, 478, 487, 490

Balbi, Count Pado Battista (1693–1772), 294

Balck, Uldericus Dominicus (at Helmont, J. B. van, A.D. 1621), 104

Baldwin, J. M., “Dict. of Philosophy and Psychology,” 32, 39, 40, 519, 520

Baldwin, Loammi (1745–1807), 199, 281

Balfour, Dr. John Hutton, of Edinburgh (1808–1884), 463

Ball, Sir Robert (at Newton, Sir Isaac), 133

Ball, Walter W. Rouse, “History of Mathematics,” 541

Ballard, “Magnetism of Drills,” 554

Ballot, Christopher Hendrik Buÿs-, “Meteor. Preisfrage,” 1847, 440

Bammacaro, Niccolò, “Tentamen de vi electrica,” 273

Bancalari, Michele Alberto (b. 1805), 426

Bancroft, Edward Nathaniel (1744–1820), 129, 229, 239, 298

Banks, Sir Joseph (1743–1820), 247, 250, 252, 456

Barbarossa—Emperor Frederick I.—water compass, 30, 146

Barbarus, Hermolaus (1454–1495), “Compendium scientiæ ...,” 506.

See Bayle, Dictionary, Vol. I. pp. 633–638.

Barbazan, Etienne, “Fabliaux,” 30

Barberet, Denis (1714–1776), 167, 321

Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques (1709–1779), 196

Barcelona Academy of Sciences, 317, 318

Bardenot, J. R. P., “Les recherches ... refutées”: Paris, 1824, 305

Barents, discoverer of Novaya Zemlya, 562, 563

Baret, E. (at Themistius of Paphlagonia), 540

Baretus and Oviedo, narrative of, 1554, 192

Barlæus—Bærle—Kaspar van, “Observ. ... magnesteen en de magnetische ...,” 1651, 136

Barletti, Carlo (d. 1800) “Nuove sperienze,” 1771, 207, 249, 556

Barlocci, Saverio (1784–1845), 423

Barlow, Peter (1776–1862), 398, 427, 457–460, 465, 467, 473, 476, 484.

“Essay on magnetical attractions ...,” 1823, 1824; “Encyclopædia of British Arts, Manufactures ...,” 1855.

Barlow, William Henry, 449, 460

Barlowe—Barlow—William (d. 1625), 18, 27, 57, 76, 78, 79, 80, 87, 90, 97, 141.

“Magneticall Advertisements ...,” 1613, 1616, 1618, 1843; “Navigator’s supply ...,” 1597.

Barnes, Robert (at Jadelot, J. F. N.), 330

Barneveldt—Barneveld—Joan van Olden—Oldenbarneveld (1549–1619) (at Grotius, Hugo), 518

Barneveldt—Barneveld—Wilhelm van (1747–1826), 6, 325, 326

Baronio, Dr. Joseph, of Milan, 393

Barral, G. (at Brugnatelli, L. V., A.D. 1802), 362

Barral, J. A. (at Arago, D. F. J., A.D. 1820), 481

Barrow, Sir John, F.R.S. (1764–1848), 114, 438, 439, 467

Bart and Schweigger researches, 414

Barthélémy, Jean Jacques (1716–1795), 291, 301

Barthema. See Varthema.

Bartholinus, C. Thomas (1688), 554

Bartholinus, Erasmus, “De Cometus,” 122

Bartholinus, Thomas (1616–1680), “De Luce animalium”; “De naturæ ...,” 29

Bartholomacus de Glanvilla—Anglicus—(fl. 1230–1250), “Liber de proprietatibus rerum,” 13, 16, 34, 37, 124.

See “Dict. of Nat. Biogr.,” 1908, Vol. VII. pp. 1288–1290.

Bartoli (at Eandi, G. A. F. G., A.D. 1790), 294

Baruffaldi, Girolamo (at Brasavolus, A. M.), 506

Barwick, G. A., xx

Basilica chimica. See Crollius, Oswaldus.

Basle—Basel—Acta Helvetica Physico Mathematico—Botanico—Medica, 8 Vols.; Nova Acta, etc., 1751–1787, 299.

See also Bernoulli I., James.

Basle—Basel—University, 147

Basse, Frédéric Henri, of Hamel (at A.D. 1803), 384

Batavæ, De Antiq. Reipubl., 517

Batavi Scientific Society. See Haarlem.

Batavian Society of Experimental Philosophy. See Rotterdam.

“Bath Chronicle,” 128

Bathanarius, once Count of Africa, 25

Bathseba, mentioned at p. 5 (1033–975 B.C.).

Batines, Colomb de, “Bibliog. Dantesca,” 1845–1846, 44

Batteries (piles), electric, galvanic, etc.: Volta, 1775; Van Marum, 1785; Children, Cruikshanks, Davy, Tromsdorff, Babington, Eastwick in 1800; Wollaston, 1801; Pepys, Parrot in 1802; Ritter, Hachette in 1803; Behrends and Dyckoff, Gay-Lussac in 1804; Maréchaux, 1806; Deluc, 1809; Zamboni, 1812; Dana, 1819.

Bauer, L. A., “U.S. Magnetic Tables ...”; “Terrestrial Magnetism ...,” 60, 70, 79, 81, 91, 92, 138

Baumgarten—Crusius—Ludwig Friedrich Otto, 520

Baumgartner, Andreas von, Baron (b. 1793), 423.

See Ettinghausen, also “Zeitschrift für physik....”

Bavaria, Electoral Academy of. See Baierischen, 272

Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, 273, 380, 406, 407, 424, 432, 433, 477

Bayle, Pierre (1647–1706), “Dictionnaire historique et critique,” 502: London edition, 1734.

Bayly and Wales, 242

Bayly, William, astronomer (d. 1810), 348

Bazin, Gilles Augustin (d. 1754), 208, 273.

See Nouv. Biogr. Gén., IV., 887.

Beacon fires (at 1084 B.C.), 4

Beaufoy, Col. Mark (1764–1827), 157, 426, 427

Beaume. See La Beaume.

Beaumont, Elie de, “Memoir of Oersted,” 455

Beauvais, M. (at Alexandre, Jean, A.D. 1802), 361

Beazley, C. Raymond (at Empedocles), 511–512

Becani, Joannis Goropii. See Goropus.

Becanus. See Goropius.

Beccari—Beccaria—Jacopo Bartolommeo (1682–1767), 199, 208;

“De artif. elect.”; “A series of experiments,” 1775.

Beccaria, Giovanni Battista (1716–1781), 178, 189, 199, 206–208, 224, 226, 246, 253, 294, 320, 416

Beccher—Becher—Johann Joachim (1635–1682), 261, 262, 502

Beck, M. van. See Moll.

Beckensteiner, C. (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine), 386

Becket, John Brice (at Wilkinson, C. H.), 269, and (at Thillaye-Platel), 385

Beckmann, Johann (1739–1811), “A history of inventions ...,” 17, 27, 148, 152, 233

Becquerel, Adolphe, “Des applications de l’électricité ...”: Paris, 1856–1860, 386

Becquerel, Alexandre Edmond (1820–1891), 218, 295;

(Comptes Rendus, 1840, 1843–4–6–7, 1864); “Memoir on Dia-Magnetism.”

Becquerel, Antoine César (1788–1878), “Eléments d’electro-chimie,” 1843; “Traité experimental de l’électricité et de magnetisme,” 1834–5–6–7, 1840; “Expériences sur la développement de l’électricité ...,” 1823; “Traité de Physique ...,” 1844, 8, 29, 31, 55, 195, 204, 258, 293, 321, 347, 352, 353, 370, 373, 389, 403, 417, 426, 433, 441, 463, 494.

See Vapereau, G., Dictionnaire, p. 119,

also Electro-capillary phenomena.

Becquerel, A. C., and Becquerel, Edmond (1820–1891), “Traité d’électricité et de magnétisme ...”: Paris, 1855, 1856; “Eléments de Physique ...”: Paris, 1847; “Résumé de l’historie de l’électricité et du magnetisme”: Paris, 1858, 24, 29, 30, 54, 110, 129, 153, 271, 315, 380, 388

Becquerel, A. C., and Brachet, A., 241, 271;

Concernant des expériences sur la torpille (Comptes Rendus, III., 135).

Becquerel, Edmond, and Frémy, Edmond, “Recherches électro-chimiques sur les propriétés des corps electrisés”: Paris, 1852.

Beddoes, Thomas (1760–1808), 392

Beeck, A. van, Van Beck and Bergsma, 463, 473

Beer, Aug., 1868 (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 386

Beetz, W. von (at Zamboni, Giuseppe, A.D. 1812), 420

Behaim—Behm—Martin (1430–1506), 67

Behmen. See Boehm.

Behrend (at Bohnenberger, J. J. F. von), 434

Behrends, T. G. B. (at Reinhold, J. C. L., and at Humboldt, F. H. Alex. von), 327, 333

Behrends, Wilhelm, of Francfort, 284, 387

Belcher, Sir Edward, 446

Belgium, Royal Academy of Sciences, 243, 259, 280

Belgrado, Giacomo (1704–1780), 420, 555

Bell, Alexander Graham (1847), 72, 234

Bell. Jud. Adv. Roman, 10

Bellani, Angelo (at Volta Alessandro, A.D. 1775), 248

Bellay, Joachim du (1524–1560), “Comme le fer qui suit la calamite,” 16

Belleau, Rémy (1528–1577), “Bergeries,” 16

Belli, Giuseppe (1791–1860) (at Tralles, J. G., A.D. 1790), 293

Bellingeri—Berlingieri—Carlo Francesco (d. 1848), 284, 355

Beloe, William (1756–1817), “The Sexagenarian,” 324

Belon, Pierre (1517–1564), 270

Beltrami, P., 1823 (at Gay-Lussac, J. L., A.D. 1804), 389

Bembo, Cardinal (at School of Athens), 542

Bencora—Ben Konah—Thebitius, 540–541

Ben David—Bendavid—Lazarus, “Ueber die religion der Ebräer von Moses,” 9

Benedictus, Joannes Baptista (1530–1590), 506

Benham, Charles E. (at Gilbert, William, A.D. 1600), 92

Bennet, Abraham, Curate of Wirksworth, F.R.S. (1750–1799), 127, 282, 289, 303, 336, 373, 430, 470

Benzenberg, Johann Friedrich (1777–1846), 208, 314

Bérard, Frédéric (1789–1828), 423 (at Morichini, D. P., A.D. 1812–1813).

Béraud—Berault—Laurent (1703–1777), “Dissertation ... électricité”; “Theoria electricitatis,” 1755, 163, 164, 167, 258, 259

Bercy, Ugo di. See Sercy.

Berdoe, M., “Inquiry into the influence of the electric fluid ...,” 1771, 556

Bergen, Carolus, Augustus van (at Jallabert, J. L., A.D. 1749), 189

Bergerac, Savinien, Cyrano de (1629–1655), 103, 171

Bergeret—Berjeret—a physician of Dijon, 183

Bergeron, Pierre (second half of sixteenth century), “Abrégé de l’historie ...,” 60

Bergmann—Bergman—Sir Torbern Olof (1735–1784), “Bemerkung ... Krystales”; “Commentarius ... turmalini”; “Elektrische versuche ...,” 32, 220, 221;

History of Chemistry and other sciences.

Bergsma and Van Beek (at Dutrochet, R. J. H., A.D. 1820), 463

Berio (at Alexandre, Jean, A.D. 1802), 361

Berkel, A. van (at Shaw, George, A.D. 1791), 299

Berkeley, George, the works of, 511, 515, 520

Berlin, Astronomer Royal (Bernoulli), 147

Berlin Academy—University—Memoirs, History and Reports—Abhandlungen, 153, 155, 170, 173, 192, 214, 217, 218, 220, 223, 225, 226, 230, 262, 263, 276, 288, 299, 308, 352, 392, 471, 478

Berlingieri, Francesco Vacca Leopold (1732–1812), 206, 270, 300, 305, 327, 331

Bernoulli, Christoph (at Ritter, J. W., A.D. 1803–1805), 381

Bernoulli, Daniel (1700–1782) (Acta Helvetica, III. 1758, p. 223), 147, 160, 213

Bernoulli, family, 146–147, 155, 450

Bernoulli, James I. (1654–1705), 147

Bernoulli, John I. (1667–1748), 146, 226

Bernoulli, John II. (1710–1790), 147, 214

Bernoulli, John III. (1744–1807), 147, 226

Berrutti, S., “Elogio del ... Vassalli Eandi,” 1839, 29

Bertelli—Barnabita, Timoteo (1826–1905), 30, 44, 45, 47, 48, 50, 51, 57, 59, 60, 71, 72, 110, 111, 112, 526, 531;

“Memoria sopra P. Peregrino.”

Berthelot, Pierre Eugène Marcellin, Membre de l’Institut, F.R.S., “Chimie organique ...”

Berthier, J. E., “Attractions et répulsions électriques,” 1751, 555

Berthollet, Claude Louis de (1748–1822), “Discours ...,” 233, 236, 279, 377, 386, 388

Bertholon de St. Lazare, Nicolle Pierre (1742–1800), “De l’électricité du corps humain,” 1780; “De l’électricité des végétaux,” 1783; “De l’électricité des météores ...,” 1787, 20, 129, 178, 189, 223, 229, 240, 243, 256, 257, 258, 259, 263, 270, 295

Bertholot, Marcellin Pierre Eugène (1827–1907), “Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs”; “Traditions du moyen-âge”; “La révolution chimique,” x, 17, 262, 514;

“La Grande encyclopédie.” There is also a Berthelot, Th., mentioned in Dezebry, Ch.

Berton, Henri Montan (1766–1844), 329

Bertrand, J. L. F., 276

Berzelius, Jöns Jacob von (1779–1848), “Lehrbuch der Chemie,” 5 Vols.: Leipzig, 1848; “Afhandling Galvanismen”: Stockholm, 1802; “Essai sur la théorie ...”: Paris, 1819, 336, 340, 343, 345, 364, 368–370, 419, 423, 466, 471, 472

Berzelius, J. J. F., and Hissinger, W. (1766–1852), “Forsok med. elektr. ...:” Stockholm, 1806 (Afhandl. i fisik, kemi och Mineralogi, De i).

Beseke, J. M. G. (at Lavoisier, A. L., A.D. 1781), 262

Bessard, Toussaincte de, “Dialogue de la longitude,” 1574, 63, 72, 115

Bétancourt, Augustin de, Telegraphic line from Aranjuez to Madrid (Ronalds’ Catalogue, pp. 57 and 280).

See Bétancourt y Molina.

Bétancourt—Bethencourt—y Molina, Augustin de (1760–1826), 176, 318

Betylos, 17

Bevis—Bevans—John (1693–1771), 175, 178

Bew, Ch., 1824 (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 385

Beyer, M., Memoirs of, 198,

and (at Gay-Lussac, J. L.), 198, 389

Beziers, Collège de, 353

Bianchi, G., 1738 and 1740 (at Dalton, John, A.D. 1793), 186, 308

Bianchi, Iso, 1781, 556

Bianchini, Dr. Giovanni Fortunato (1719–1779), 186, 263, 385

Bianco, Andrea (beginning of fifteenth century, A.D.), 62–63, 64, 65

Bianconi, G. (at Brugnatelli, L. V., A.D. 1802), 363

Bias, native of Iona (fl. c. 570 B.C.), 7

Bibl. Acad. Belge de Namur, 256

Bibl. Dantesca. See Batines, Colomb de.

Bibl. Hisp. Vetus. See Antonii.

“Bibliografia Italiana di Elettricità e Magnetismo ...,” Rossetti, T. E.; Cantoni, G.: Padua, 1881.

Bibliographer’s Manual of William Thomas Loundes, 1863, 547

Bibliografia Italiana. See Alessandrini, Antonio, 256, 257, 293

Bibliographia Britannica.

Bibliographia Poetica. See English Poets.

Bibliographical Dictionary, 503

Bibliographical History of Electricity and Magnetism. General Cross-Entry Index. See Encyclopædia Britannica, XIV., 2637 B.C. to A.D. 1821, 1–499, 82, 273, 294, 295, 346, 396, 408, 448, 466, 523, 533, 559

Bibliographie Analytique. See Miller, B. E. C.

Bibliographie Astronomique, Lalande, J. J. Le F. de, 233; Jöcher, J. F.

Bibliographie de l’astronomie. See Houzeau, J. C., et Lancester, A., Bruxelles.

Bibliographie des magnetismus. See Murhard, F. W. A.

Bibliographic Voltairienne, Quérard, J. M., 1842, 59

Bibliography of Electricity and Magnetism.

See Bibliographical History of Electricity and Magnetism.

Bibliography of Electricity and Magnetism, “Die Weltliteratur der Elektricitaet und des Magnetismus, von, 1860–1883 ...”: Wien, 1884.

See Bulletin of Bibliography,

also “Bulletino di Bibliografia ...”

Bibliography of Ptolemy’s Geography.

See Winsor, Justin.

Bibliography of the sympathetic telegraph, at entry No. 1881 and at pp. 409–418 of “Catalogue of Wheeler Gift to the Am. Inst. El. Eng.,” 1909.

Biblioteca Fisica d’Europa (at Morichini, D. P.), A.D. 1812–1813), 248, 424.

See Brugnatelli, L. V.

Biblioteca Germanica (at Morichini, D. P.), 326, 333, 424;

edited by Bura, Configliachi, Ridolfi and Santini.

Biblioteca Italiana (at Morichini, D. P.), 296, 424;

edited by Acerbi, Brugnatelli, Gioberti, Configliachi, Monti and others, 5 Vols., 256, 293, 295, 296, 298, 306, 363, 424, 464, 482, 554.

See Lombardy. Continued as Giornala dell’ I.R. Istituto Lombardo ... e Biblioteca Italiana up to 1856; it was not republished until 1858–1862, when it appeared as “Atti dell’ I.R. Istituto Lombardo.”

Biblioteca Marciana: Venice, 62, 63

Biblioteca Modenese. See Tiraboschi, G.

Biblioteca Napolitana, 516

Biblioteca Oltramontana, 295

Biblioteca Oriental y Occidental, 516

Biblioteca Vaticanæ, Codices, 526

Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escurialensis. See Casiri, Michael.

Bibliotheca Belgica, 517.

See Foppers, J. F.

Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum, 54

Bibliotheca Britannica, A. Robert Watt: London, 16, 97, 117, 131, 134, 140, 170, 178, 231, 238, 240, 244, 248, 256, 263, 270, 282, 299, 306, 307, 313, 315, 328, 337, 340, 347, 359, 363, 367, 370, 371, 373, 383, 384, 393, 394, 403, 406, 407, 414, 416, 420, 423, 424, 426, 432, 441, 455, 460, 477, 499, 540

Bibliotheca Chemica: Glasgow, 1906, 43, 262, 520

Bibliotheca Enucleata of Schielen, J. G.: Ulm, 1679, 554

Bibliotheca Grotiana. See Rogge, H. C.

Bibliotheca Historica Italica ... 1874. See Merula, Gaudentius.

Bibliotheca Historica Medii Ævi. By August Potthast.

Bibliotheca Historico-Naturalis.... See Zuchold, E. A.

Bibliotheca Hulthemiana: Gand, 202

Bibliotheca Latina Mediæ ... Ætatis (Medii Ævi) of Albert Johan, 531

Bibliotheca Lusitana. See Machado, B.

Bibliotheca Mediol. See Argellati, P.

Bibliotheca Palatina Vindobonensis: Vicenna.

Bibliotheca Patrum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 523

Bibliotheca Sacra. See Le Long Le Père Jacques.

Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medicorum. See Manget, J. J.

Bibliotheca Technologica. See Martin, Benjamin.

Bibliothecarius Quadripartitus. See Hottinger, J. H.

Bibliothek der philosophie: Berlin.

Bibliothek electro-technische: Braunschweig und Wien.

Bibliothek für philosophie: Berlin.

Bibliothèque Bibliographique: Paris.

Bibliothèque Britannique: Genève et Bruxelles, 1796–1815, 199, 231, 249, 482

Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal: Paris, xi

Bibliothèque d’histoire scientifique. See Hamy, E. T.

Bibliothèque des actualités industrielles. See Urbanitsky.

Bibliothèque des auteurs ecclésiastiques. See Dupin, M. J. J., 524

Bibliothèque des sciences ..., 6 Vols.: Lyon, 1668.

Bibliothèque des sciences contemporaines: Paris.

Bibliothèque du magnétisme animal: Paris.

Bibliothèque Egyptologique: issued in Paris during 1897, 14

Bibliothèque Germanique. See Biblioteca Germanica.

Bibliothèque Italienne. See Biblioteca Italiana.

Bibliothèque Mazarine: Paris, xi, 108

Bibliothèque Nationale: Paris, xi, xix, 30, 33, 43, 45, 53, 57, 102

Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève: Paris, xii, xix, xx

Bibliothèque Universelle: Genève et Bruxelles, 140, 193, 257, 298, 416, 420, 433, 453, 476, 477, 482, 491, 492, 494, 499.

The Archives de l’Electricité is a supplement; likewise, the Archives des sciences physiques.

Bichat, Marie François Xavier (Biogr. Gén., VI. 2–20), 284, 285, 305

Biddle, Memoir of Seb. Cabot, 69

Bidone, Giorgio (1781–1839), “Description d’une nouvelle boussole ...” (Mém. de Turin, 1809–1810).

Bienvenu and Wittry de Abot, 431

Bifilar balance and balance Electroscope, 470–471

Bigeon, L., in Ann. de Ch. et de Phys. (at Æpinus, F. M. U. T.), 218

Bigot de Morogues, Pierre Marie Sebastien (1776–1840), “Chronological catalogue ...,” 315

Billingsley, C., “Longitude at sea ...,” 1714, 554

Bina, Andrea (b. 1724), “De physicis experimentibus ...,” 2 Vols. 1733–1756.

Binat, Rev. F., “Electricorum Effectuum ...,” 1751, 555

Bindemann, Carl, “Der heilige Augustinus,” 1844–1855, 25

Bio-bibliographie. See Chevalier.

Biografia degli Italiana illustri. See Tipaldo, E. A.

Biographia Britannica, 80, 91, 124, 522;

Kippis, Andrew: London, 1793, 16

Biographia Medica. See Hutchinson, Benjamin.

Biographia Philosophica. See Martin, Benjamin.

Biographia Scotica. See Stark.

Biographical Dictionary of the Society of Useful Knowledge, 502

Biographical Dictionary. See herein “General Biographical Dictionary,” by the different authors, Alex. Chalmers, John Gorton, J. B. Lippincott and H. J. Rose.

Biographie Générale. See Nouvelle Biographie Générale.

Biographie Medicale, 218, 258, 516

Biographie Nationale, 559

Biographie Universelle, ancienne et moderne. See Michaud, M.

Biographie Universelle et Portative, 233, 277, 293, 330

Biographisch-Literarisches Handwörterbuch. See Poggendorff.

Biographischen Lexikon, 513

Biography, Ecclesiastical. See Wordsworth, C.

Bion, Nicolas (1652–1733), 32, 148

Biot, Edouard Constant (1803–1850), 7, 380

(Acad. des Sciences, Savants Etrangers, Vol. X.).

Biot, Jean Baptiste (1774–1862), “Traité de Physique”; “Traité élémentaire d’astronomie et de physique.”

Biot and Arago, Biot and Becquerel (Comptes Rendus, 1839, viii, 223).

Biot and Cuvier (Annales de Chimie, Vol. XXXIX. p. 247).

Biot, Faraday and Sarart.

Biot, Oersted, Arago, Ampère, Davy, etc.: Paris, 1822, 93, 139, 141, 157, 195, 247, 273, 275, 276, 277, 279, 284, 313, 349, 376–380, 388, 390, 393, 402, 407, 419, 455, 462, 472, 476, 480

Birch, John (1745–1815), “Della forza dell’ Elettricita ...,” 1778; “Essay on medical application of electricity,” 1803, 281

Birch, M., “Observations on medical electricity,” 1779–1780.

Birch, Thomas (1705–1766), F.R.S., 131, 132, 175, 183, 195, 272;

on the luminousness of electricity (Phil. Trans. for 1754).

See History of the Royal Society.

Bird, Golding (1814–1854), 325, 426, 498

Biringuccio, V., “Pyrotechnie,” 1572, 553

Birkbeck, George (1776–1841), 458

Bjerregaard, C. H. A., “Sufi interpretations,” 38

Black, John, “An attempt ... electro-chemical theory,” 370

Black, Joseph (1728–1799), 309

Blackborrow—Beckborrow—Peter (at Bond, Henry, A.D. 1637), 118

“Blackwood,” London (at Faraday, Michael), 487

Blæu, G. and J., “Théâtre du Monde,” 1645, 554

Blagden, Sir Charles (1748–1820), “An account of some fiery meteors,” 1784 (Phil. Trans. LXXIV. Part I.).

Blagrave—Blagrau—John, eminent English mathematician, 94, 95

Blagrave, Joseph (1689), 553;

“Traité de la sphère du monde.”

Blake, Professor (at Franklin, Benjamin, A.D. 1752), 197

Blakey, Robert, “History of the philosophy of the mind,” 237

Blanc, Gilbert (at Fowler, Richard, A.D. 1793), 307

Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna Hahn-Hahn (1831–1891), “Isis Unveiled,” 9, 10, 12–13, 15, 17, 64, 105, 108, 120, 135, 237, 401, 414, 483, 523

Bloch, Marcus E., “Naturgeschichte der Ausländischen fische,” 1786, 299

Blome’s translation of Descartes’ Philosophy, 133

Blondeau, M. (at Swinden, J. H. van, A.D. 1784), 274

Blondus, Flavius, “Italia Illustrata,” 211

Blondus, Michael Angelo (1497–1560), “De ventis et navigatione,” 58, 211

Bloomfield, Robert, “Norfolk,” 1806, 95

Blount, Sir Thomas Pope, “Censura,” 93

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich (1752–1840), 327, 331

Blundeville, Thomas (b. 1530), 72, 94, 534.

See Dict. Nat. Biogr., 1886, V. 271; “Theoriques of the seven planets,” 1602; “His exercises ...,” 1606.

Boaz, James (at Pasley, C. W., A.D. 1808), 398

Bobierre, A. (at Davy, Sir Humphry, A.D. 1801), 345

Bocardo, Nuova Encyclopædia Italiana: Torino, 1877, 61

Boccalini, Trajano, Advices from Parnassus, 10

Bochart, Samuel (1599–1667), “Geographia Sacra”: Caen, 1646; Frankfort, 1681, 5, 523

Boddært, Pierre D. M. (b. 1730), “Histoire de la boussole,” 61

Bodies, anti-magnetic, observations on, 387

Bodin, J. (1596), “Universæ naturæ theatrum,” 1596, 553

Bodleian Library at Oxford, xix, 53.

This library was founded in 1602 by Sir Thos. Bodley. It is now the largest University library in the world, and is second in England to the British Museum Library which was founded in 1753.

Boeckmann, Johann Lorenz (1741–1802), 285, 308, 316, 393, 473

Boehm—Böhme—Behmen—Jacob (1575–1624), 65, 75

Boerhaave, Hermannus (1668–1738), “Biblia naturæ,” on title page, 132, 157, 169–170, 202

Bogulawski, Albrecht von (at Beccaria, G. B., A.D. 1753), 208

Bohadasch, J. B., “Dissertatio,” 229, 385

Bohnenberger, Gottlieb Christian (1732–1807), 434

Bohnenberger, Johann Joseph Friedrich von (1765–1831), 364, 433

Boinet, Amedée, xii

Boisgeraud—Boisgerard—Junior (Phil. Mag., LVII. 203), 455–456

Boissardus, Joannes Jacobus (at Barbarus, Hermolaus), 506

Boissier, C. Henri, “Mémoire sur la décomposition de l’eau,” 1801, 229, 329, 330, 375

Boisvallé, Sieur de Vissery de, 268, 269

Bollenatus, Burgundo-Gallus, 1607, 553

Bologna Academy and University, Commentarii, Rendiconto, Memorie (Transactions), 258, 268, 283, 284, 304, 509

Bologna, “Istituto delle scienze ed arti liberali,” 1745–1748.

Bologna, “Istituto nazionale Italiano,” Memorie, 248

Bologna, Journal Encyclopédique, 237, 275

Bologna, Nuovi Annali delle scienze naturali: Alessandrini, Bertolini, Gherardi e Ranzani, 30 Vols., 1834–1854.

Bolonian stone, 206.

See Canton’s phosphorus.

Bolten, Jochim Frederick, 26, 245

Bolton, Henry Carrington, “Select Bibliography of Chemistry,” 32, 37, 65, 228, 502, 513, 517, 548

Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844–1906) (Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Math.-Nat., Vol. 52), 492

Bombay Magnetic Observatory, 440

Bompass, Charles Carpenter, “Essay on the nature of heat, light and electricity,” 199

Bonaparte. See Napoleon.

Bonaparte, Joseph, King of Spain, 463

Bonaventura. See Fidanza, John, “Die mysterien und des magnetischen somnambulismus,” 1856.

Boncompagni—Ludovisi Baldassare (1821–1894), 54.

See Bulletino di Bibliografia.

Boncompagni—Buoncompagni and Vincent, 520

Bond, Henry, “The longitude found.” See Seaman’s Kalender, 1637, also Phil. Trans. for 1668, 1672, 1673, 118

Bondioli, Pietro Antonio (1765–1808), 308

Bonel, A., Histoire de la telegraphie ...: Paris, 1857.

Bonelli, G., “Télégraphes electro-chimique de Bonelli et Casselli,” 1863, 338

Boniface, the Apostle of Germany (680–754), 553

Bonnefoy, Jean Baptiste, “De l’application de l’électricité à l’art de guérir,” 299, 385

Bonnejoy, Octave Ernest, “Des applications de l’électricité à la thérapeutique,” 305

Bonnet, Charles (at Aldini, Giovanni, A.D. 1793), 258, 272, 505 (1720–1793).

Bonnycastle, Charles (1792–1840), 457, 468

Bonon. See Bologna.

Boot—Boodt—Anselme Boèce de (1550–1632), “Gemmarum et lapidum historia,” 17

Borda, Jean Charles (1733–1799), 76, 249, 266

Bordeaux, Académie Royale des Sciences, 167, 183, 203, 286, 288, 389

Borel, Pierre, M.D. (1620–1689), “Bibliotheca Chimica ...”: Parisiis, 1654.

Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso (1608–1679), “Applicazione dell’ elettricita alla navigazione,” 1855, 96, 97, 240, 270

Borough—Burrowes—William (1536–1599), “A discourse of the nature (variation) of the cumpas ...,” 1581, 76, 77, 117

Borsetti, Ferranti Bolani (Ferrante Giovanni), 507, 510

Bos, van den. See Moll.

Boscovitch (Boscovich), Father Roger Joseph—Ruggiero Giuseppe—(1711–1787), 139, 140, 303, 304

Bossange—Bosange—letter from Liebnitz, 152

Bosscha, J. (at Volta, Alessandro, A.D. 1775), 247

Bossut, Charles. See Histoire, Générale des Mathématiques, 35, 147

Bostock, John (1774–1846), 17, 249, 415, 419, 443;

“An account of the history and present state of galvanism”: London, 1818; “Outline of the history of the galvanic apparatus, etc.”

Bostock and Riley (at Thales, 600–580 B.C.), 8

Botto, A. (at Mariner’s Compass), 59

Botto, Giuseppe Domenico (1791–1865) (Mém. de Turin for 1843, 1845 and 1851; Botto and Avogadro “Mémoire sur ... les courants électriques ...”: Turin, 1839).

Bottomley, James Thompson, “Electrometers”: London, 1877 (describes the quadrant and absolute electrometers of Lord Kelvin).

Boucher, Pierre Joseph (1715–1780), “Recueil des savants étrangers,” 59

Boudet, Dr., “De l’électricité en médecine,” 229

Boudin, Jean Charles Marie, “Histoire physique et medicale de la fondre,” 1854, 389

Boué, A. (at Dalton, John, A.D. 1793), 308

Bouguer, Pierre, Membre de l’Académie Royale des Sciences and F.R.S. (1698–1758), “Traité de la navigation,” 1753, 138, 225

Bouguerel, Le Père Joseph (1680–1753), 114

Bouillet, J. Marie Nicolas, 109, 295, 534

Bouillon-Lagrange, Edma Jean Baptiste, Marquis de (1764–1840), 431

Boulanger—Boulenger—Jean, “Traité de la sphère du monde,” 1688, 553

Boulanger—not Boullangère—Nicholas Antoine (1722–1759), 185, 191–192

Boulay, H. de, “Histoire de l’Université de Padone,” 505

Boulger, Demetrius Charles, “History of China,” 2

Bourdonnay, D. (at Coulomb, C. A. de, A.D. 1785), 276

Bourguet (at A.D. 1812, Mr. Donovan), 419

Bourinot, J. G., 32, 115

Boussole—Bussola—Mariner’s Compass.

See Azuni, D. A., 1, 22, 55, 60, 69;

Bertelli, T., 57, 72;

Davies, 1;

Fincati, 58;

Klaproth, 1, 3, 5, 22 passim, 28, 29, 61, 69, 72;

Grimaldi, 61;

McCulloch, 61;

Molinier, 61;

Magliozi, 61;

Morveau, boussole à double aiguille, 233;

Signorelli, P. N., 58;

Venanson, 5, 17.

B.C. 1110, p. 3; 1068, p. 4; 1033–975, p. 5; 1022, p. 5. A.D. 121, p. 21; 235, p. 22; 265–419, p. 22; 543, p. 27; 658, p. 27; 806–820, pp. 27–28; 1067–1148, p. 28; 1111–1117, p. 29; 1190–1210, p. 30; 1204–1220, p. 30; 1207, p. 31; 1235–1315, p. 31; 1250, p. 33; 1260, p. 43; 1265–1321, p. 43; 1266, p. 44; 1269, pp. 45–54; 1270, p. 54; 1271–1295, p. 55; 1282, p. 55; 1302, p. 56; 1327–1377, p. 58; résumé at pp. 59–61 passim.

Bouvier de Jodoigne. See Jodoigne.

Bowditch, Nathaniel (1773–1838), 412, 463

Boyle, Robert (1627–1691), “Mechanical origin ... electricity,” 1675; “Experiments and Notes ...,” 1676; “Experiments and Observations ...,” 1681; “Philosophical Works ...,” 1725, 7, 113, 125, 130–132, 135, 147, 167, 262

Boze—Böse—Georg Mathias (1710–1761), 166, 169, 179, 182, 185, 203

Boze, Gros de. See Claude.

Bozolus, Joseph (at A.D. 1767), 226–227, 244

Brachet. See Becquerel, A. C., 241, 271

Brackett, C. F., Professor, xii

Brahé, Tycho. See Tycho Brahé.

Bramante, Lazzari (c. 1444–1514), 544

Brande, William Thomas (1788–1866), “A Manual of Chemistry”; “Dictionary of Science ...”; “Dissertatio ...,” 37, 347, 370, 425, 426, 455, 485, 494, 497.

See Quarterly Journal of Science.

Branden, F. J. van den, “Biographisch Woordenbuck,” 518

Brandes, Heinrich Wilhelm (1777–1834), 195, 208, 314

Brandt, Georg (1694–1768), 163

Brandt and Cattenbach, 518

Brannt, W. T., translator of Langbein’s work on the electro-deposition of metals, 24

Brard, Cyprien Prosper (1788–1838), “Manuel du minéralogiste,” 153, 286

Brasavolus, Antonius Musæ (1500–1570), 26, 506, 525.

See Mazzuchelli, G. M., “Gli Scrittori ...,” Vol. II. Part IV. pp. 2023–2028; likewise Joëher, C. G., “Allgemeines, Gel. Lex.,” pp. 1338–1339.

Braun, C. J. H. E. (at Dalton, John, A.D. 1793), 308

Braun, J. A. (at Swinden, J. H. van, A.D. 1784), 274

Bravais, Auguste (b. 1811), 139

Bray, William (at Boyle, Robert, A.D. 1675), 130

Brayley, E. W. (at Gilbert, William, A.D. 1600), 91

Brechmann, Arrigi (at Gioia, Flavio, A.D. 1302), 56

Breda, Jacob van, 282

Breguet, Louis François Clement (1804–1883); Breguet et Bétancourt, 318

Breislak, Scipio (1748–1826), also Configliachi, Carlini and others, 363

Bremmer, Rev. James, 437

Brémond, François de, 555, 559

Brenning, Emil (at Plotinus of Alexandria), 533

Brera, V. L., “Giornale di medicina ...,” 12 Vols.: Padova, 1812–1817, 300, 363

Brescia, Academy and Athenæum. Commentarii del Ateneo di Brescia, 1814–1851, 420

Brescia, Commentarii, dell’ Accademia di Scienze ... del: Mella, 1808.

Breslau Academy, “Miscellanea ... Ephemerides, Academiæ Cæs. Naturæ Curiosum ...,” 24 Vols. 1670–1706. Also “Ephemerides, Acad. Cæs. Nat. Curios.,” 5 Vols.: Novimb., 1712–1722; Acta Physico-medica Acad. Cæs. Leopoldino-Carolinæ, Nat. Cur. ..., 18 Vols.: Novimb., 1727–1791.

Bressy, Joseph (at A.D. 1797), 324, 557

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

Breton, Madame Le, “Hist. et Appl. de l’électricité ...,” 229

Brewer, John Sherren (1810–1879), “Fr. Rogeri Bacon,” 41, 42, 171, 269.

See “Dict. of Nat. Biogr.,” 1908, Vol. X. pp. 1202–3.

Brewster, Sir David (1781–1868), 96, 127, 134, 153, 156, 185, 208, 213, 225, 230, 261, 271, 275, 288, 298, 307, 311, 346, 379, 390, 409, 411, 423, 427, 432, 441, 444, 457, 458, 464–467, 471, 479, 480

Brewster, Sir David, and Ferguson, James, “Essays ... astronomy, electricity ...,” 1823.

Brewster, Sir David, and Robison, John, “A system of mechanical philosophy ...,” 4 Vols. 1822. Edinburgh Encyclopædia of Science, 1810–1830; Edinburgh Journal of Science, 1831–1832; Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, 1819–1824; London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 1832–1850; London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 1851; “Treatise on Magnetism,” 1838; “Edinb. Encyclop.,” IV. 173; “Encyclop. Britannica,” Vol. XXI.

See Copley Medal, Royal Medal, Rumford Medal.

Brezé, Il Marchese de, 347

Briand, J., 1854 (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 386

Bridges, John Henry, Oxford, 1897, 37, 43

“Briefe uber Kalabrien und Sizilien:” Göttingen, 507

Briet, Philippe (1601–1668), “Annales Mundi,” 56, 58

Briggs, Charles F., “The story of the telegraph ...,” 1858, 159

Bright, Charles, son of Edward Brailsford Bright, “Yof Dakar underground cables ...,” 1893.

Brilhac’s plate electrical machine, 257

Brisson, Dictionnaire de physique, 1781, 556

Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1723–1806), “Dictionnaire raisonné de physique,” 6 Vols., 1800, 204, 247

Bristol, C. M. F. (at 1773), 240, 556

Bristol Philosophical (Pneumatic) Institution, 343

Britannica Baconica. See Childrey.

British Academy, Proceedings of the, 1905–1906, 54

British Annual, 1, 28, 80

British Association for the advancement of science, London; originated in 1831. Reports, Journals, etc., 142, 240, 267, 313, 335, 377, 389, 440, 446, 466, 471, 490

British Encyclopædia. See Nicholson.

British Museum, London, 54, 80, 106, 143, 272, 550, 551.

See Bodleian Library.

British Quarterly Review. See Quarterly Review.

Brittain, Alfred, 523, 536

Britton, John (at Gilbert, William, A.D. 1600), 91

Brix, T. W., “Annalen der telegraphie”: Berlin, 1870.

Brockelmann, Carl (at Avempace), 39

“Brockhaus’ Konversations-Lexikon,” F. A. Brockhaus: Berlin, Leipzig und Wien, 498

Brook, Abraham, electrometer, etc., 231, 281

Brougham, Lord Henry, 262, 457

Broussonet, Pierre Marie Auguste, 192

Brown, J. A., on the aurora borealis, 140

Brown, R., 1692, 553

Browne, G. H. (at Duverney, J. G., A.D. 1700), 148

Browne, Richard (at Arrais, E. D., A.D. 1683), 136

Browne, Sir Thomas (1605–1682), “Pseudodoxia Epidemica,” 1650, 7, 17, 18, 66, 69, 71, 113, 114, 123, 124, 127, 128

Browning, J. (at Ingen-housz, A.D. 1779), 257

Browning, Robert, translator of Æschylus, 3

Brucker, Johann Jacob (1690–1770), “Histoire critique de la philosophie,” 541.

See Enfield.

Brugmans, Anton (1732–1789), 215, 254, 494

Brugmans, Sebald Justin (at Brugmans, Anton, A.D. 1778), 254–255

Brugnatelli, Gaspare (1795–1852), son of L. V. Brugnatelli. Joined Configliachi in the editorship of the Giornale di Fisica, 363

Brugnatelli, Luigi Valentino (1761–1818), “Biblioteca fisica d’Europa”; “Annali di Giornale di Fisica, Chimica ...”; “Principles”; “Avanzamenti ... Fisica”; “Giornale di Pavia”; “Grunsätte”; “Giornale fisico-medico ...”; “Notizie ...” (1802, 1805) 247, 248, 258, 282, 284, 292, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 303, 306, 329, 330, 337, 350, 361, 362, 363, 383, 393, 394, 408, 419, 424

Brugnatelli, L. V., and Brera, V. L., “Commentarii medici,” 1796–1799.

Brugnatelli, L. V., Brunacci, G., and Configliachi, Pietro, “Giornale di fisica, chimica e storia naturale.”

Brugsch, Dr. H., founder of “Zeitschrift für Ægyptische Sprache und Alterthumskunde,” 14

Brumoy, Pierre (1688–1742), “Le théâtre des Grecs,” 4, 7

Brunacci, G. (at Brugnatelli, L. V., A.D. 1802), 363

Brunet, G., Annuaire des sociétés savantes, 1846.

Brunet, Jean Charles, Manuel du Libraire, 54, 63, 71, 146, 539, 540

Brunetto, Latini (1230–1294), xix, 34, 43, 56, 59, 524

Bruno, Giordano (at Lully, Raymond), 31, 33

Bruno, M. de, “Recherches ... fluida magnétique ...,” 1785, 556

Bruns, V. von (at Jadelot, J. F. M., A.D. 1799), 330

Brussels—Bruxelles—Annales de Physique (at Ampère, A. M., A.D. 1820), 476

Brussels—Bruxelles—Annales de l’Observatoire. See Quetelet, L. A. J.

Brussels—Bruxelles—Annales Générales des sciences physiques et naturelles, par Mr. Bory de St. Vincent, 255

Brussels, Royal Academy, Memoirs, etc., 195, 243, 256, 273, 289, 293, 298, 299, 314

Bryant, W. (at Adanson, Michael), 193

Bryant, William Cullen, 6

Brydone, Patrick, 27, 229, 385

Buccio, M., 1812 (at Jadelot, J. F. N., A.D. 1799), 330

Buch, Leopold de (Phil. Mag., Vol. XXIV. p. 244), 393

Buchan, Captain David (1780–1839), 467

Buchmeri, Spec. Acad. Nat. Cur. Hist., 103

Bucholz, Christoph Christian Friedrich (1770–1818), 400

Buddha (at Zoroaster), 541

Budge, 1846 (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 386

Bueil College at Angers, 179

Buff, Heinrich (at Brande, W. T., A.D. 1813), 426

Buff, M. (b. 1805) (Phil. Mag. N. S., Vol. VII. p. 22), 258

Buffon. See Le Clerc, Georges Louis.

Buisson, F. R., “Précis historique ...,” 305

Bulletin de Géographie, 28, 30

Bulletin de la Société Académique de Laon, 94

Bulletin des sciences mathématiques, astronomiques, physiques et chimiques. 16 Vols.

See Ferussac, André Etienne.

Bulletin des sciences technologiques, 19 Vols.: Paris.

See Ferussac, André Etienne (1786–1836).

Bulletin du Bibliophile, 265, 516

Bulletin International de l’electricité: Paris, 1882–1895.

Bulletin of Bibliography for 1905, 138

Bulletino di Bibliografia e di storia delle scienze ... de Boncompagni, 54, 520

Bulletino Meteorologico dell’ Osservatorio del Collegio Romano ... e bibliografia....

See Sacchi, Angelo (1818–1878).

Bulletino telegrafico de Regno d’Italia, 1865–1888.

Buniva, Dr. Michele Francisco (at Hunter, John, A.D. 1773), 241.

Burci, 1852 (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 386

Burgess, George, translator of Plato’s “Ion,” 13, 15, 20

Burigny, J. L’Evegne de, 518

Burke, Edmund (at Callender, Elisha, A.D. 1808), 400

Burkhardt (at Swinden, J. H. van, A.D. 1784), 273;

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

Burnet (at Dutrochet, R. J. H., A.D. 1820), 464

Burq, M. V., “Métallo-thérapie,” 1853, 233

Burrough, Stephen, master of the “Serchtrift,” 69, 522

Burstyn, J. P. (at Zamboni, Giuseppe, A.D. 1812), 420

Burton, Dr. William (at Boerhaave, H., A.D. 1743), 170

Busby, Dr. Thomas, translator of Lucretius’ “De rerum natura,” 19

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

Bussola nautica, origine della. See Collina, A.

Bussy, Antoine Alexandre Brutas, “Manipulations Chimiques,” 1827, 340

Butet, Pierre Roland François, 274, 326, 330

Buti, Francesco da, 57, 63.

See Mazzuchelli, G. M., “Gli Scrittori ...,” Vol. II. Part IV. pp. 2468–2469.

Butler, Alban (at Augustine, St., A.D. 426), 25

Butler, A. J. (at Dante, Alighieri, A.D. 1265–1321), 44

Butler, C. (at Grotius, Hugo), 518

Butler, Samuel (1612–1680), author of “Hudibras,” 99

Butler, William Archer (at Pythagoras), 537

Butschany, Matthias, “Dissert. ex phænom. electricis ...,” 1757, 555

Butterfield’s wonderful collection of loadstones, 159, 175, 402

Buttmann, “Bemerkungen ... des magnetes und des basaltes,” 15

Buys-Ballot. See Ballot, C. H. Buÿs.

Buzzi, F. (at Wilkinson, C. N., A.D. 1783), 270

Byerges, Swedish Count (at A.D. 1266), 45

C

Cabæus, Nicolaus—Cabeo, Nicelo—(1585–1650), “Philosophia Magnetica,” 1629, 7, 33, 48, 50, 109, 110, 112, 113, 120, 146, 160

Cabot bibliography. See Winship, G. P.

Cabot, Jean (at Cabot, Sebastian, A.D. 1497), 69

Cabot, Sebastian (1474–1557), 65, 68, 69, 115, 521, 522.

See Dict. Nat. Biogr., 1886, VIII. 166–171

Cadet, Jean Marie (1751–1835), 235, 249, 273

Cadozza, Giovanni (1816–1877), “Sulla polarizazione rotatoria ...” (Giornale dell’ I.R. Istit. Lombardo, 1852, 1853, 1854.

See also Atti. Accad. Sc.: Torino, IV. 729–755, 1869).

Cæsalpinus, Andreas (1519–1603), “De Metallicis,” 17, 501

Cæsar, Caius Julius (102–44 B.C.), “De bello Africano,” 24

Cæsar, Crispus. See Crispus.

Cæsare, Giulio Moderati (at A.D. 1590), 78, 79, 112, 113, 115, 149

Caille, Nicholas Louis de la (1713–1762), 301

(Nouv. Biog. Gén., Vol. 28, p. 441).

Caird, Edward, “The social philosophy and religion of Comte,” 533

Calaber, Hannibal Rosetius, 82, 507

Calamai, L. (at Shaw, George, A.D. 1791), 298

Calamita—calamite—the native magnet, 15, 16

Calandrin (at Swinden, J. H. van, A.D. 1784), 274

Calcagnini, T. G. (at Calcagninus, Cælius), 507

Calcagninus, Cælius (1479–1541), “De re nautica commentatio ...,” 58, 507

Caldani, Floriano (1772–1836), “Riflessioni ... elettricità animale,” 1792, 303, 326

(Ann. di Chimica di Brugnatelli, VII. 138, 159, 186, 208).

Caldani, Leopoldo Marco Antonio (1725–1813), 148, 303

“Caledonian Mercury,” 296

Callender—Calendar—Elisha, of Boston, 400

Callisen, Adolf Karl Peter (1786), 375, 455;

“Medicinisches Schriftsteller-Lexikon,” 1829–1837.

Callisthenes of Olynthus (c. 360–328 B.C.), Greek historian, 543

Calogera—Calogiera—Angelo, “Raccolta d’Opuscoli scientifici ...”; also “Nuova Raccolta ...,” 140, 308

Caloric and electric fluid, analogy between, Berthelot at 1803.

Calorimotor—Calorimotive force—Hare at A.D. 1819, pp. 446–447; Pepys at A.D. 1802, p. 373

Camara, Matteo, “Memorie ...”: Salerno, 1876, 57

Cambridge Philosophical Society Transactions, 140, 473, 475

Cambridge University, 129, 212

Camerarius, Joachim (1500–1574), “Vita Melanch ...,” 507

Camillus, Leonardus. See Leonardus.

Camoëne, Luiz de (1524–1579), “Os Lusiades,” 24

Camorano, R., “Compendio de la arte de navegar ...,” 1582.

Campan, John (died c. 1300), 54

Campegius, Laurentius (at Arnaldus de Villa Nova), 505

Camper, Pierre (1722–1789), 243, 332

Campi (at Beccaria, G. B., A.D. 1753), 208

Candish—Cavendish—Sir Thomas, 79, 211, 522, 523

Cantapratensis, Thomas, of Louvain, 34

Canterzani, Sebastiano, 304

(Tipaldo, “Biografia,” Vol. VIII. p. 87).

Canton, John (1718–1772), 153, 157, 167, 176, 200, 205–206, 215, 217, 232, 252, 320, 393, 402, 415, 427

Cantoni, G. See “Bibliografia Italiana.”

Canton’s phosphorus, 206, 252, 393, 402

Cantor, Moritz, of Leipzig, 147, 537

Cantu, Cesare (at Volta, Alessandro), 248;

(at Romagnesi, G. D. G. G.), 367

Capella, Martianus Minneus Felix (fl. fifth century A.D.), 505, 518

Capmany y Montpalau, Antonio the elder (1742–1813), “Memorias historicas,” 60

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

Cappanera, Rodolfo, editor of “L’Elettricita,” and “La Natura,” in Florence and Naples.

Capron, J. Rand, “Auroræ, their characters and spectra”: London, 1879.

Cardanus—Hieronymus (1501–1576), 14, 17, 29, 35, 53, 108, 115, 126, 507, 539;

“De subtilitate ...,” 1550, 1611; “De rerum varietate,” 1556, 1557; “Ars magna-artis magnæ.”

See Scaliger, J. C., also Wundt, “Philosophische Studien.”

Cardanus, Giovanni, “De fulgure” in his “Opera Omnia,” 10 Vols.: Lugd., 1663, 199

Carhart, Dr. Henry S., mentioned at Grotthus, Theodor, A.D. 1805, 391

Carignano, Princess Giuseppina di, 208

Caritat. See Condorcet.

Carl, P., Doctor. See “Repertorium für Physikalische Technik,” 1865; “Repertorium für experimental physik,” 1868–1882.

Carle, P. J. (at Aquinas, St. Thomas), 504

Carli, Gian Rinaldo (1720–1785), “Dissertazione ... bussola nautica ...,” 1747, 553

Carlini (at Brugnatelli, L. V., A.D. 1802), 363

Carlisle, Sir Anthony (1769–1840), 270, 335–337, 419, 435

Carlyle, Thomas, “Crit. and Misc. Essays,” 59

Carminati, Prof. Don Bassiano, of Pavia (1750–1830), 246, 249, 254, 285, 303, 393, 555

(Tipaldo, “Biografia,” 1838, Vol. IX. p. 250).

Carmoy, M., 229, 257, 282, 385

Carnarvon, Earl of, translation of Homer’s Odyssey, 6

Carnegie, Andrew, “James Watt,” 190

Carnevale, Antonio Arella, “Storia dell’ elettricità,” 2 Vols.: Alessandria, 1839, 296

Carney, Michael (at Carpue, J. G. S.), 375

Carnot (at Sömmering, S. T. von, A.D. 1809), 407

Carpentarius, J., 156, 553

Carpenter, Nathaniel (1589–1628), “Geography delineated ...,” 1625, 1635; “Philosophia libera ...,” 1621, 1622, 1636, 1675, 107

Carpi, Dr., of Rome, 423

Carpue, Jean Joseph Constantin (1764–1846), 306, 375

Carradori, Gioachino (1758–1818), 232, 277, 292, 303, 304, 326, 327, 337

Consult “Annali di Chimica di Brugnatelli.”

Cars, chariots, magnetic. See Magnetic cars, also Chariots or cars.

Carsten. See Karsten.

Cartesius, Cartesian system. See Descartes.

Cartier, J., “Philosophia electrica ad menten ...,” 1756, 555

Carus (at Jacopi, J., A.D. 1810), 409

Casali, G. (at Halley, Edmund, A.D. 1683), 138

Cascades, electricity of, 293

Casiri, Michael (1710–1791), “Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escuraliensis,” 1760–1770, 40, 502, 519, 540

Casselli et Bonelli, Télégraphes electro-chimiques, 338

Cassini de Thury, César François (1714–1788), 266, 268, 301

Cassini family, 117, 132, 141, 142, 144, 147, 148, 157, 168, 268, 315, 450

Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (1625–1712), 142, 144, 268

Cassini, Jacques (James) (1667–1756), 268

Cassini, Jean Jacques Dominique, Comte de (1747–1845), 266–268, 273

Cassius, Larcher. See Larcher.

Castberg, P. A. (at Jadelot, J. F. N., A.D. 1799), 330

Castianus (at Porta, A.D. 1558), 74

Castlereagh, Lord (at Wedgwood, Ralph, A.D. 1814), 430

Castor and Pollux, 23

Castro, Ezekiel di, “De igne lambente,” 29

Catalogue Bibl. Publicæ Univers. Lug. Bat., 54

Catalogue of Books and Papers relating to Electricity, Magnetism ... compiled by Sir Francis Ronalds and edited by Alfred J. Frost: London, 1880. Designated throughout these pages as the Ronalds’ Catalogue.

Catalogue of books printed in Bibl. Nationale, 102

Catalogue of electrical bodies. See Plot, R.

Catalogue of Latimer Clark Library, xiv

Catalogue of Scientific Papers. See Royal Society.

“Catalogue of Scientific Serials.” By Samuel H. Scudder, 1879, ix, 548–550

Catalogue of Wheeler Gift to Am. Inst. of Elect. Engineers, 2 Vols., 1909.

Cates, William Leist Readwin (1821–1895), co-operated with Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward in the publication of the “Dictionary of General Biography” (3rd ed. 1880), after editing the “Encyclopædia of Chronology,” 1872. [His brother, Cates, Arthur (1829–1901), co-operated with Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau (1822–1894), in the publication of the “Architectural Dictionary.”

Cathochiles (at Solinus, Caius Julius), 540

Caulfield, James, third earl of Charlemont (1728–1799), 316.

(He wrote on the tellograph, etc.)

Cauxois, Robert Reynault, “The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies,” 1604, 78

Cavaliéri, Buonaventura (at Cassini family), 268

Cavalleri, G. M. (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 386

Cavallo, Tiberius (1749–1809), 5, 45, 70, 78, 80, 138, 174, 193, 226, 229, 243–245, 246, 258, 261, 263, 269, 275, 277, 278, 280, 291, 304, 310, 313, 326, 336, 393;

“A complete treatise on electricity ...,” 1777, 1787, 1795, 1802; “Treatise on magnetism ...,” 1787, 1800; “Elements of natural philosophy ...,” 4 Vols. 1803.

Cavendish, Charles, Lord, 175, 238, 239

Cavendish, Henry (1731–1810), called “the Newton of Chemistry.”

See Maxwell, J. Clerk, “The electrical researches of the Hon. Henry Cavendish”;

also Copley Medal, 185, 199, 206, 207, 216, 218, 223, 231, 238–239, 240, 245, 251, 252, 255, 256, 291, 298, 310, 329, 374, 405, 406, 470, 492

Cavendish, Sir Thomas. See Candish.

Cawthorn, James (at Desaguliers, J. T., A.D. 1739), 167

Caxton, William (c. 1422–1491), “Myrrour,” 16

Cazelès, Masars de (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 385

Cazin, Achille, “Traité théorique des piles ...,” 248

Cecchi, 1691, 554

Cecco d’Ascoli. See Stabili.

Cedrinus, G., “Compend. Hist.,” 18

Celi (at Bertholon de St. Lazare, A.D. 1780–1781), 259

Celier, Léonce, “Histoire des auteurs sacrés ...,” 525

Cellarius (at Columbus, Christopher, A.D. 1492), 67

Cellesius, Fabricius, “De naturali electricitate ...,” 1767, 556

Cellio, Marco Antonio, “De terra magnete ...,” 1692, 554

Celsius, Anders (1701–1744), “Observations of the needle ...,” 157, 168, 191, 232.

See Hjorter.

Censorinus, Roman writer of the third century, A.D., 505

Centralblatt fuer Electrotechnik: Muenchen, 1880–1889.

Cesi, In, “De meteoris dissertatio ...,” 1700, 554

Cespedes, Andres Garcia de, “Reg. de Nav. y Hydr.,” 68

Cézanne, “Le cable transatlantique ...,” 361

Chaignet, Antelme Edouard, 533, 537;

“Pythagore et la philosophic Pythagorienne,” 1873.

Chaldeans, 536

Chales. See Dechalles.

Chalmers, Alexander (1759–1834), “General Biographical Dictionary,” 32 Vols. 1812–1817, 54, 95, 106, 120, 122, 129, 167, 186, 189, 265, 311, 514, 520, 522

Chambers, Ephraim (d. 1740), “Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences”; “Papers for the People”; “History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris,” 5, 39, 79, 81, 97, 193, 229, 240, 330, 518, 520

“Chambers’ Journal,” 143

Chambers, Robert (1802–1871), “Cyclopædia of English Literature.”

Chambers, William and Robert, “Descriptive Astronomy,” 142

Champignon, “Etudes physiques ...”; Paris, 1843 (at Mesmer, F. A., A.D. 1772), 237

Champlin, Samuel (at Lully, Raymond, A.D. 1235–1315), 32

Chancellor of Bavaria, Hervart Johann Georg, 106

Chancellor, Richard (at Cabot, Sebastian, A.D. 1497), 69

Chandos, Duke of (at Desaguliers, J. T., A.D. 1739), 166

Changeux, P. N., 1776, 556

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

Channing, Dr. William Francis (b. 1820). He published, with Prof. John Bacon, Jr., Davis’s “Manual of Magnetism” (1841),

also “Notes on the medical application of electricity” (1849), 423, 436, 476

Chappe, Claude (1763–1805), 301, 317, 434, 439

Chappe, d’Auteroche, L’Abbé Jean (1722–1769), 301

Chappe, Ignace Urbain Jean (1760–1829), “Histoire de la télégraphie,” 2 Vols.: Paris, 1824, 301

Chappe, Robillard et Sylvestre, 302, 303, 306

Chaptal, J. A. C., 1778, 556

Chaptal, M., Ministre de l’Intérieur, 360, 361

Charas, Moïse, “Antiquité historique ...,” 14

Charcot (at Mesmer, F. A., A.D. 1772), 237

Chariots or cars, magnetic, 1, 3, 4, 5, 22, 27, 28

Charlant, Johann Ludwig (Choulant), “Handbuch der Bücherkunde,” 519,

also “Handbuch ... die Æltere Medicin,” 529

Charlemont, Lord, on the tellograph (at Edgeworth, R. L., A.D. 1794), 317

Charles, Emile, “Roger Bacon,” 43

Charles, Jacques Alexandre César (1746–1823), French physicist and aeronaut, 204, 247, 288–289, 351, 354, 407

Charles I, King of England, 91, 104, 121

Charles II, King of England, 119, 127, 130

Charles II, King of Naples, 16

Charles IV, of Lorraine (at Leurechon, Jean, A.D. 1628), 109

Charles V, Emperor of Germany and King of Spain, 61, 70, 114, 501

Charleton, Walter—Charlton—(1619–1707), 27, 91, 104, 105, 124, 245, 299;

“A ternary of paradoxes ... magnetic cure ...,” 1650; “Disquisitiones duæ chymico-physicæ ...,” 1665; “Physiologia Epicuro Gassendo, Charltoniana ...,” 1654.

Charlotte, Queen, Consort of George III, 405

Charpignon, Dr. (at Amoretti, Carlo, A.D. 1808), 401

Charton—Edouard—Edmond, “Voyageurs anciens et modernes ...,” 69;

contains an extensive bibliography of Marco Polo.

Charts of the magnetic variation.

See Bianco, Andrea, A.D. 1436, 62

Chasles, Michel (1793–1880), French mathematician, 96, 288 (note), 333, 351, 354, 386, 521

Chasles, Victor Euphémien Philarète (1798–1873).

Chassang, M. A., “Le merveilleux dans l’antiquité,” 533

Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1340–1400), 16, 32, 46, 58, 61–62;

“The house of fame”; “Assembly of foules”; “Romaunt of the rose”; “Treatise on the astrolabe.”

Chaudon, Louis Maïcul (et Delandine), “Dict. Historique Universel,” 20 Vols. 1810–1812, 163, 187, 192

Chauveau, M. A. B. (at Ewing, John, A.D. 1795), 321

Checler. See Wheler, Granville, 154, 155

“Chemical News:” London, 134, 150, 344, 370, 380, 466, 496, 498

Chemical Society: London, 449, 495

Chemische Annalen, von Crell, L. F. F.: Helmstadt, 1784–1803, 250

Chemisches Archiv., von Crell, L. F. F.: Helmstadt und Leipzig, 1783–1794.

Chemisches Journal, von Crell, L. F. F.: Helmstadt, 1778–1781.

Chenevix, Richard (b. 1830), 387

Chevalier—Chevallier—Jean Gabriel (1778–1848), 362;

“Instruction sur les paratonnerres”: Paris, 1823.

Chevalier and Henri (at Brugnatelli, L. V., A.D. 1802), 362

Chevalier, l’Abbé Ulysse Joseph (b. 1841), “Repertoire des sources historiques du moyen-âge”; “1st part—Bio-Bibliographie,” 401, 540

Chevremont, F. (at Robespierre, F. M. J. I., A.D. 1783), 269

Chevreul, M. E., “De la baguette divinatoire,” 401

Chiaromonti, Scipione, “Anti-Tycho,” 1621, 93

Chicago Meteorological Congress, 321

Chigi, Aleso—Alessandro—“Dell’ elettricità terrestre—atmosferica dissertazione”: Sienna, 1777.

Children, John George (1777–1852), 338, 372, 402, 419

Childrey, Dr. Joshua (1623–1670), “Britannica Baconica,” 1660, 142, 188

Chilo (fl. fifth century B.C.), 7

Chiminello, Vincenzo (1741–1815; at Toaldo, Giuseppe, A.D. 1778), 253, 254

China—La Chine—B.C. 2637, 1110, 1068, 1022; A.D. 121, 235, 265, 295, 806, 968, 1111, 1327–1377.

See Boulger, Davis, Du Halde, Paleologue, Panthier, Saillant et Nyon, Staunton.

Chinese dictionary, or rather encyclopædia “Poei-wen-yun-fou,” 22

Chinese history, chronological tables of, (at 2637 B.C.), 1

Chinese knowledge of the loadstone, 21

Chinese nation, extraordinary antiquity of, according to Voltaire, 58

Chladni, Ernst Florenz Friedrich (1756–1827), founder of the theory of acoustics, “Ueber den Ursprung der von Pallas ...,” 1794, 312–315

Chompré, Nicolas Maurice (1750–1825), 390, 391 (Phil. Mag., XXVIII. 59).

See Riffault and Chompré.

Choue-wen, celebrated Chinese dictionary of Hin-tchin, 21

Chrichton, A. See Crichton, A.

Christiana, “Magazin für Naturvidenskaberne,” 29

Christiana, University of, 442

Christie, Samuel Hunter (1784–1865), 335, 432, 427, 458, 460, 465 (Phil. Trans., 1825, 1828, 1833, 1835, and Part II. for 1836).

“Chronicle,” London (at Alexandre, Jean, A.D. 1802), 361

Chronological History of Chemistry. See Bolton, H. C.

Chronological History of Magnetism, Electricity and the Telegraph, vii, xi, xiv

Chronological Summary of authors re Aurora, 140

Chronological Tables of Chinese History, 2637 B.C.

Chrystal, Professor, mentioned at Ampère, A. M., A.D. 1820, 474

Church of New Jerusalem, founded by Swedenborg, 163

Church of Notre Dame de Chartres, 144, 145

(“Dict. of the wonders of nature,” pp. 362–366).

Church of Saint Augustine at Arimini, 78, 112, 113, 114

Church of Saint Brides, London, 232

Church of Saint Jean at Aix, 113, 114

Church of Saint John the Baptist at Arimini, 112, 113, 123

Church of Saint Laurence, Rome, 112

Church of Saint Michael th’ Archangel, 210

Church of the Augustines at Mantua, 113

Churchill, Awnsham (d. 1728) (Dict. Nat. Biogr. 1887, x, 307), 522

Churchill, Awnsham and John, authors of “A collection of voyages and travels ...”: London, 1704–1732, 98, 522

Churchman, John (1753–1805), 315;

The magnetic Atlas ..., 1790, 1794, 1804.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106–43 B.C.), 2, 8, 43, 529, 532; “Academica”; “De divinatione.”

“Ciel et Terre,” 61, 92, 321

Cieza de Leon, Pedro de, “The seventeen years travels ...,” 1709, 211

Cigna, Giovanni Francesco (1734–1790). “Analogia magnetismi et electricitatis,” 224

Cioni e Petrini, 337, 392

Cisternay Dufay. See Dufay—Du Fay, 161

Claridge, Rev. J. T. W., F.R.S., 142

Clark, Latimer (1822–1898), x, xi, xiv, 361, 408, 440, 547

Clarke, Dr. Samuel (1675–1729), translator of Rohaulti’s “Physica,” 160, 129

Classen, Aris (at Schouten, W. C., A.D. 1616), 98

Claude, Gros de Boze (1680–1753), 290

Claudianus, Claudius (fl. c. A.D. 365), 11, 14, 18

Clausius, Rudolph Julius Emanuel (1822–1888), 347, 391, 392

Clavius, Christopher (1538–1612), 102, 530

Clayfield (at Tilloch, Alexander, A.D. 1805), 392

Cleasby and Vigfusson’s Dictionary. See Aurora Borealis.

Clement IV, Pope (at Bacon, Roger, A.D. 1254), 41

Clement and Désormes, 376

Clement Mallet, J. J., “Documents ... teleg., elec., magn.,” 1850.

Clement of Alexandria—Clemens Alexandrinus (born c. A.D. 150), 520

Cleobolus, born in the island of Rhodes (fl. c. 560 B.C.), 7

Cleopatra sent news by wire (?) throughout her kingdom, 12

Cleoxenes, Greek engineer (at Polybius, 200 B.C.), 19

Close, Rev. N. M. (at Hipparchus the Rhodian), 521

Clouet, M. (1751–1801), 372

Clowes, J. (at Swedenborg, Emmanuel, A.D. 1734), 164

Clytemnestra. In Greek legend, the daughter of King Tyndareus and Leda; wife of Agamemnon, 3

Cochon, Prefect of Vienne (at Alexandre, Jean, A.D. 1802), 361

Codices Palatini Bibliothecæ Vaticanæ, 526

Codrus (c. 1060 B.C.), last King of Athens, 4, 5

Coiffier, employs lighting to charge an electric jar, 200

Colardeau (at Coulomb, C. A. de, A.D. 1785), 277

Colepress, Samuel, “Account of some magnetical experiments,” 1667, 273, 554

Colla, Ant. (at Dalton, John, A.D. 1793), 308

Colladon, Jean Damel, Professor of Mechanics at Geneva, 244

Collection de mémoires relatifs à la physique, 277, 455, 476

Collège de France, Paris, 114, 117, 132, 263, 376, 471, 476, 482

College of Bueil at Angers, France, 179

College of Surgeons, London, 468

Collegium curiosum, established on plan of the Accademia del Cimento, 129

Collegium experimentale physico-mechanicum, 147

Collegium experimentale sire curiosum ..., 129, 130

Collenuccio, Pandolfo, “Historiæ Napolitanæ,” 1572; “Compendio ... regno di Napoli,” 1591, 57, 211

Colles, Christopher (1738–1821), 418

Collin, Antoine (at Garcia d’Orta), 516

Collina—Abbondio—Abondio (1691–1753), 60, 555;

“De acus nautica inventore,” 1747; “Considerazioni ... origine della bussola nautica ...,” 1748

Collinson, Peter (1693–1768), xiv, 193, 194, 196, 321

Collis, H. M. (at Thillaye-Platel, Antoine, A.D. 1803), 386

Colomiès, Paul (at Montanus, Arias Benedictus), 528

Colonna, Egidius (c. 1247–1316), 16

Colonne pendula of Maréchaux, 304

Colsmann (at Reinhold, J. C. L., A.D. 1797–1798), 327

Columbus, Christopher, xx, 24, 32, 34, 65–68, 78, 475, 508, 523, 534, 535

Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus (fl. first century A.D.), 10

Combe, Blanche. See Janin de Combe Blanche, 304, 385

Comines, Philippe de Sieur d’Argentan (1445–1510), “Mémoires,” 537

“Commercial Magazine,” 430

Compass. Early compasses of various kinds are mentioned by Robert Norman in chapter x. of his “Newe Attractive”; also more particularly at B.C. 2637, 1110, 1068, 1033–975, 1000–907; A.D. 121, 265–419, 1067–1148, 1204–1220, 1207, 1235–1315, 1250, 1265–1321, 1266, 1269, 1270, 1282, 1302, 1327–1377, 1775.

See Chambers’ Cyclopædia, Vol. I., also Colina and Diderot’s “Encyclopédie,” II. 374–379.

Compass card—rose of the winds—rose des vents, 63

Compass plant—silphium lancinatum—first introduced into Europe, 259–260

Completa Raccolta d’Opuscoli, 253

Composition of water from its constituent gases, Fourcroy at 1801, 354

Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires, de l’Académie des Sciences: Paris.

See Chambers, Ephraim, x, 1, 29, 93, 139, 140, 142, 195, 241, 258, 316, 318, 321, 329, 337, 359, 380, 389, 407, 423, 436, 440, 464, 475, 476, 481, 483, 495, 521

Comte, Isidore A. M. F. X. (1798–1857), founder of Positivism, 534.

See Lewes, G. H., also Caird, Edward.

Comus. See Le Dru.

Condamine, 165

Condenser of electricity, Cavallo’s, 244; Read’s, 312.

See A.D. 1802, 368

Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de (1734–1794), 190, 264

Conducting power of silk thread and of human hair (at Robison), 311

Configliachi, Pietro (1779–1844), “Giornale di fisica chimica e storia naturale.”

See “Biblioteca fisica d’Europa”; “Biblioteca Germanica”; “Biblioteca Italiana,” 248, 363, 406, 423, 424

Confucius, 541, 542, 544

Connaissance des temps, la. See Paris.

Connel, A. (at Nicholson, William, A.D. 1800), 337

Connolly, J. (at A.D. 1817), 441–442

Conringius, Hermannus, “De anquitatibus Academicis dissertationes ...,” 36

Conservation of force (Faraday), 498

Constantine the Great, mentioned at Lactantius, L. C. F., 523

Contact and Chemical theories (Faraday), 490–491

Conti, A. S., on the aurora borealis, 140

Conversations-Lexicon nieuwenhuis wooderbock ...: Leiden. See Konversations.

Cook, Benjamin, of Birmingham, 415

Cook, Captain James (1728–1779), 242, 348, 456

Cooke, Conrad W., 92, 116

Cooke, Sir Thomas William Fothergill (1806–1879), “The electric telegraph, was it invented by Professor Wheatstone?” (Five distinct pamphlets were issued under this title in 1854, 1856, 1857 and 1866), 365, 384, 407, 421, 422, 440, 444

Cooke, Sir Thos., and Hamel, T., “Historical account of the introduction of the galvanic and electro-magnetic telegraph into England ...”: London, 1859.

Cooper, C. C., “Identities of Light and Heat of Caloric and Electricity”: Philadelphia, 1848.

Cooper, Charles Henry (1808–1866), “Athenæ Cantabrigienses,” 91, 95

Cooper, M., “Philosophical enquiry ...”: London, 1746.

Coote, C. M., 560

Copenhagen, Academy (University) of Sciences, 157, 158, 249, 366;

“Det Kongelige Norske ...”: Kiobenhaven, 1768–1774; “Det Kongelige Danske ...”: Kiobenhaven, 1801–1818, 1824, 1826; “Nye Samling ... selskabs skrifter ...”: Kiobenhaven, 1784.

Copenhagen, Archives du Nord pour la physique et la médecine, 353

Copenhagen, Polytechnic School, 452

Copenhagen Society, “Acta Reg. Soc. Hafniensis,” 4 Vols.: Hafn. 1812, 115

Copernicus, Nicolaus—Koppernik (1472–1543), Copernican, 88, 90, 94, 95, 96, 102, 507–508, 510, 512, 513, 515, 533.

See Wundt, Wilhelm, “Philosophische Studien,” Index, p. 22.

Copley Medal of the Royal Society, London: three to Desaguliers, two each to Faraday and to Canton, 167, 176, 227, 246, 263, 454, 470, 479, 481.

Amongst other recipients of the Copley Medal are: Stephen Hales, 1739; Sir John Pringle, 1752; Benjamin Franklin, 1753; John Dollond, 1758; Benjamin Wilson, 1760; Hon. Henry Cavendish, 1766; Count Benjamin Rumford, 1792; Sir David Brewster, 1815; Alexander von Humboldt, 1852, and Lord Rayleigh, 1899.

Corday, Charlotte, mentioned at Robespierre, A.D. 1783, 269

Cordier, Henri, mentioned at Marco Polo, A.D. 1271–1295, 55.

See Mandeville.

Cordus, Valerius—Eberwein (1515–1544), 508

Cornelius, Agrippa. See Agrippa.

Cornelius, Gemma. See Gemma.

Cornelius, Tacitus—Caius Publius. See Tacitus.

“Cornhill Magazine,” 208, 227, 330, 413, 481

Corsa, A., “Notizie ... elettro-chimica,” 363

Corsi, Raimondo Maria, mentioned at Ficinus, Marsilio, 515

Cortambert and Gaillard (at Galvani, Luigi, A.D. 1786), 284 (Mém. de la Soc. médicale d’Emul., I. 232).

Cortez—Cortes—Cortesius—Martinus (died c. 1580), “Breve compendio de la esfera y de la arte de navigar,” 1546; “Breve compendio de la sphera ...,” 1551; “Arte de navegar,” 1556, 68, 114, 115, 507, 508

Cortez, Fernand, mentioned at Oersted, H. C., 475

Corvisart-Desmarets, Jean Nicolas (1755–1821), “Journal de Médecine,” 325, 326

Cosa, Juan de la (d. 1509), mentioned at Columbus, Christopher, 68.

See Nouv. Biogr. Gén. XII. 17.

Cosmo de Medici, mentioned at Ficino, Marsilio, 514

Cosmos (at Humboldt, Alex. von).

Cosmos, Le, Cosmos les Mondes. See Moigno, L’Abbé F. N. M., 365

Cosnier, Maloet and Darcet, 229, 385.

See Le Dru.

Costa, Fillipe—Felipe—of Mantua, 112

Costa-Saya, Antonio, “Dinamometro magnetico” (Giorn. del Sc. contemporanea): Messina, 1813.

Costæus—Costa—Joannes, of Lodi (d. 1603), 115, 508;

“De universali stirpium natura,” 1578.

Cotena, mentioned at Brugnatelli, L. V., A.D. 1802, 363

Cotes, Roger (1682–1716), 315

Cotes, T. (at Leurechon, Jean, A.D. 1628), 109

Cotta, Lazaro Agostino, 527

Cotte, Louis (1740–1815), “Traité de météorologie”; “Table of 134 Auroræ observed in the twelve years, 1768–1779,” 140, 207, 271, 308, 320

Cotugno, Domenico (1736–1822), 274, 331

Coulomb, Charles Augustin de (1736–1806), 156, 157, 215, 220, 225, 247, 254, 275–277, 302, 303, 310, 333, 354, 377, 379, 409, 413, 472, 473, 479, 480, 494

Council of Trent, mentioned at Sarpi—Paulus Venetus, A.D. 1632, 110

Coupé, Jean Marie Louis, “Soirées Littéraires,” 539

Couronne de tasses, 247, 351, 363

“Courrier du livre,” 32

Court de Gébelin, Antoine (1725–1784), “Monde Primitif ...,” 9 Vols.: Paris, 1781. Phœnicians credited with a knowledge of the compass.

Court Journal, London, mentioned at A.D. 1781, 260

Cousin, Victor, “... History of modern philosophy ...,” 33

Cousinot, “De occultis pharmacorum,” 536

Couvier, George, mentioned at Galvani, Luigi, A.D. 1786, 284–285

Coxe, John Redmond (1773–1864), 435

Cramer, Gabriel, mentioned at Bernoulli, John I, A.D. 1700, 146

Cramer, J. A., mentioned at Dalton, John, A.D. 1793, 308

Cras, Hendrik Constantijn, mentioned at Grotius, Hugo, 517, 518

Crateras, mentioned at Evax-Euace, 513, 514

Crauford and Hunter, mentioned at Marum, M. van, A.D. 1785, 279

Creech, Thomas, translator of Lucretius’ “De rerum natura,” 19, 21, 33

Crell, Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von (1744–1816), 250, 253, 254, 255, 327, 383, 554.

See Chemisches archiv.; Chemisches Journal; Chemische annalen; “Die neuesten entdeckungen in der chimie”: Leipzig.

Crescentio, Bartolomeo, mentioned at Raymond Lully, A.D. 1235–1315, 32

Creve, Johann Caspar Ignaz Anton (1769–1853), “Phénomènes du galvanisme” (Beiträge zu Galvanis versuchen ...: Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1793).

See Mém. de la Soc. d’Emulation, I. 236; “Biographisch-Literärisches Handwörterbuch,” pp. 497–498, 270, 284, 321, 327, 332, 333, 337, 393, 556

Crichton, A., Recueil Périodique de Litt. Med. Etrangère, 206

Crimotel de Tolloy. See Tolloy.

Crispus, Cesar, 523, 524

Crivelli, Joannis, mentioned at Hell, Maximilian, A.D. 1770, 233

Croissant and Thore, 449

Crollius, Oswaldus, “Basilica chimica ...,” 27

Crompton, Dr., mentioned at Newton, Sir Isaac, A.D. 1675, 134

Cronstedt, Axel Frederick von (1722–1765), “Versuch einer mineralogie ...,” 163, 287

Crookes, Sir William (1832–1919), mentioned at 337–330 B.C., 12

Crosse, Andrew (1784–1855), 178, 201, 248, 320, 434;

experiments in voltaic electricity (Phil. Mag., XLVI. 421, 1815).

Crosse, J. de la, “Memoirs for the ingenious,” 145

Cruger, P., Disputatio de motu magnetis (Poggendorff, I. 501): Leipzig, 1615.

Cruikshanks, William (1746–1800), on galvanic electricity (Nicholson’s Journal, IV.), 270, 337

Cruz, Alonzo de Santa. See Santa Cruz.

Cryptographia, by Friderici, 553

Crystal, Professor. See Chrystal.

Ctesias, Ktesias, the Knidian, Greek historian (fl. c. 400 B.C.), 9, 10, 196, 541

Ctesibus of Alexandria (fl. c. 120, B.C.), 520, 544

Cumming, Prof. James (1777–1861), discoverer of thermo-electric inversion (Phil. Mag., Series 4, Vol. XXVII.); “Manual of electro-dynamics,” 1827; “Researches in thermo-electricity” (Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc., 1827), 472, 473, 475, 477

Cunæus, N., wealthy burgess of Leyden, who, in 1746, independently made the discovery previously announced by Kleist, 173, 174.

See Ronald’s Catalogue, p. 120.

Curtet, François Antoine, 285, 341

Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, 259

Curtius, Nicolaus, “Libellus de medicamentis,” 27

Cusa—Cusanus—Nicolas Khrypffs (1401–1464), “Nicolai Cusani de staticis ...,” 1550, 82, 124, 509, 524

Cuthbertson, John, “Eigenschappen van de elektricität”: Amsterdam, 3 Vols. 1769, 1782, 1793; “Practical electricity and galvanism”: London, 1807, 1821, 228, 230–231, 264, 265, 277, 280, 326, 337, 342, 375, 393, 419;

“... A new method of increasing the charging capacity of coated electrical jars, discovered by John Wingfield” (Phil. Mag., XXXVI. 259, 1810).

Cuthel and Martin, mentioned at Aldini, G., A.D. 1793, 306

Cutts, Rev. E. L., mentioned at Gilbert, William, A.D. 1600, 91

Cuvier, Frédéric (1773–1838), 344, 378

Cuvier, Georges Leopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert de (1729–1822), a brief history of galvanism, 190, 279, 284, 303, 344, 419, 451, 481, 503, 515.

See “Histoire des Sciences Naturelles.”

Cuvier, G. L. C., and Biot, “Sur. l’appareil galvanique”: Paris, 1801.

Cuvillers, Mr. le baron d’Hénin de, mentioned at Mesmer, F. A., 237

Cuyper—Cuypers—C., “Exposé ... des machines électriques ...,” 1778, 387

Cybelè—Kybele—Rhea Cybele or “The great mother of the gods,” 12, 17

Cyclopædia of the Physical Sciences. See Nichols, Professor.

Cyclopædia of the Useful Arts. See Tomlinson, Charles.

Cyclopædic Science. See Pepper, J. H.

Cyrano de Bergerac. See Index of Jal’s Dictionary, p. 1312.

Czynski, mentioned at Copernicus, Nicolaus, 507

D

D’Acosta, José (1539–1600).

Dalance (“D ...”), Joachim, “Traité de l’aiman—l’aimant,” 1687, 1691, 554

Dalembert, Jean Le Rond d’. See Diderot, Denis, also D’Alembert.

Dalibard, Thomas François (1703–1779), 175, 195, 199–201, 320

Dal Negro, Salvatore (1768–1839), “Nuovo metodo ... machine elettriche,” 1799; Mem. Soc. Ital., xi, xxi; Annal. del Reg. Lomb.-Veneto, Vols. II., III., IV., V., VIII.).

Dal Rio Giorn., Ital. Letter del, 1805, 392

Dalton, John (1766–1844), 138, 140, 165, 307, 464.

See Royal Medal.

Dampier, William (1652–1715), English navigator, 522

Dana, Dr. J. F. (1793–1827), 452

Dance, Mr. (at Faraday, Michael, A.D. 1821), 497

Dandinus, Hieronymus (at Zahn, F. Joannes, A.D. 1696), 146

Daniell, “Introduction to study of Chem. Phil.,” 491

Danon, P. C. F., “Journal des Savants,” 551

Dante, Alighieri, illustrious Italian poet (1265–1321), author of the “Divina Commedia,” xix, 36, 40, 43, 44, 57, 60, 504, 524

Dantzig—Dantzic, Dantzik, Danzy—Memoirs, appeared under the caption of “Versuche und Abhandlungen ... in Danzig,” 1754, 161, 168, 169, 170, 172, 174, 175, 185, 186, 187, 189

Danuye, R. (at Chladni, E. F. F., A.D. 1794), 315

Darcet, “Description d’un électromètre,” 1749, 555

Darcet, Jean, Maloet, etc., 229, 235, 385.

See Le Dru.

Darguier and Marcorelle, 308; Marcorelle communicated many papers, relative to the déclinaison de l’aiguille aimantée, to the Mém. de Mathem. et de Phys. Vols. II. and IV., and to the Reports of the Toulouse Académie, Mém. de l’Académie Royale des Sciences de Toulouse, 1st Ser. Vol. III. 1788.

Darmester, James, French author (1849–1894), 451

Dartmouth College, 452

Darwin, Dr. Erasmus, of Lichfield (1731–1802), 213

Daubancourt—Daubencourt. See Larcher.

Daval, Peter (d. 1763) (at Watson, William, A.D. 1745), 175

David, King, 5

David the Jew (at Alfarabius), 37.

See Davies and Davis.

Davies, D., “Early history of the mariner’s compass,” 1

Davies, Myles—Miles (1662–1715), “Athenæ Britannicæ ...,” 1716.

Davies, Thomas Stephens (1795–1851), “Researches on terrestrial magnetism.”

Davis, Daniel, “Manual of Magnetism”; “Medical applications of electricity,” 1846, 1852, 347

Davis, John, for the Hakluyt Society, 562, 563

Davis, Joseph (at A.D. 1805), 389–390

Davis, Sir John Francis, Bart., “The Chinese; a general description of the empire,” 1836, 1844, 2 Vols.; “China during the war,” 1853, 1857, 2 Vols.; “La Chine,” 1837, 2 Vols., 1, 22, 23, 29, 30, 43, 54, 56, 61, 259

Davy, Dr. John (1790–1868), 8, 88, 89, 241, 278, 343, 345, 346, 347

Davy, Edward (1806–1885). See sketch of his career and of his telegraphic inventions in “Electrician,” XII. 196–197, 1884.

Davy, Henry, “Suffolk Collections” (at Blundeville, T., A.D. 1602), 95

Davy, Sir Humphry (1778–1829), 8, 88, 89, 167, 215, 233, 249, 262, 276, 278, 308, 322, 327, 330, 338, 339–347, 350, 356, 364, 369, 372, 373, 380, 381, 386, 389, 390, 392, 393, 394, 395, 416, 419, 423, 425, 426, 440, 443, 454, 456, 466, 472, 476, 478, 482, 496, 497.

See Romagnosi, G. D.; Paris, J. A.; Davy, John; Rumford Medal.

Dazebry, Charles, et Bachelet, Th., “Dictionnaire,” for Le Duc d’Aumale.

“De Bow’s Review,” 318, 407

Décade Philosophique, littéraire ...: Paris, 1794–1804. Continued as “La Revue on décade philosophique ...,” and subsequently incorporated with “Le Mercure de France,” 277, 306

Dechales—Deschales—Claude François, 553.

See Milliet.

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

See also 65–66, 71

Declination or variation, 76

Decomposition of water. See Electric and galvanic decomposition of water.

“Dedication of books,” 60

Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamcoud, Marquise de (1697–1780), 291

Deflagrator of Robert Hare (at A.D. 1819), 447

Deiman, Johann Rudolph (1743–1808), 245.

See Troostwjck.

De La Hire. See La Hire.

De Lambre—Delambre—Jean Baptiste Joseph, Membre de l’lnstitut (1749–1822), “Rapport historique sur le progrès des sciences ...”; “Abrégé de l’astronomie” ... 1813; “Histoire de l’astronomie ancienne ...,” 1817; “Histoire de l’astronomie du moyen-âge ...,” 1819; “Histoire de l’astronomie moderne ...,” 1821; “Histoire de l’astronomie ou 18^e siècle ...,” 1827, 54, 92, 102, 117, 125, 130, 141, 220, 273, 302, 335, 361, 481, 502, 508, 512, 513, 521, 527, 531, 540

Delandine, F. A., et Chaudon, L. M., 192

De Lanis, “Magistinum naturæ et artis,” 1684.

De Lapide. Book in which Aristotle is said to have mentioned the employment of the magnet in navigation, 33, 35

De La Rive. See La Rive, A. A. de.

Delaroche (at Wilkinson, C. H., A.D. 1783), 269

Delaunay, C. F. Veau (1751–1814), “Manuel de l’électricité ...”: Paris, 1809, 198, 265, 277, 280, 281, 288, 289, 292, 324, 353, 386, 393, 394, 401, 402, 462

Delaunay, Louis (1740–1805), 8, 288;

“Lettre sur la tourmaline,” 1782; “Minéralogie des anciens,” 2 Vols. 1803.

Delaval, Edward Hussey (1729–1814), 220

Deleuze, Joseph Philippe François (1753–1835), 237, 425, 481

Delezenne, M., “Expériences ...,” 406, 417

(Extrait des Mém. de la Soc. R. des Sciences ... de Lille, 1844–1845).

Delisle, Romé de, “Essai de cristallographia”: Paris, 1772, 218

Delisle the younger (at Bion, Nicolas, A.D. 1702), 148

Della Bella, Giovannantonio (1730–1823), 275;

according to Lamont (Handbuch; p. 427), Della Bella discovered before Coulomb the law of magnetic attraction and repulsion.

Delle Chiage, “On the organs of the torpedo,” 241, 298, 409

De Lor. See Lor.

De Luc, Jean André. See Luc.

De Magnete. See Gilbert, Dr. William.

Demeter—Ceres—goddess of the grain, 13

Demetrius, Phalereus (c. 345–283 B.C.), 543

Democritus (born c. 470–460 B.C.), 19, 511, 543

Denis, Ferdinand, “Bulletin du Bibliographe,” 516

“Denkschriften der Kön. Akad. ... zu München,” 407

Denmark, Royal Society of, 444

Denys, William (at A.D. 1666), 129.

Consult “Biog. Univ. de Michaud,” Vol. X. p. 439.

Denza, F. (at Dalton, John, A.D. 1793), 308

De re metallica—de Metallicii—de Arte Metallica, by Agricola, Encelius, Cæsalpinus, Morieni, B. Perez de Vargas, J. Chas. Famiani, 500–501

Derham, W. (1657–1735), 140, 141, 143, 308, 553

(Phil. Trans. for 1728, 1729–1730); Phil. Exp. and Observations for 1726.

Derozières (at Ingen-housz, John, A.D. 1779), 257

Desaguliers, Jean Theophile (1683–1744), 166, 174, 175

(Phil. Trans. for the years 1729, 1738, 1739, 1740, 1741, 1742).

Desbordeaux, sur le moyen d’obtenir un courant constant avec la pile de Wollaston (Comptes Rendus, Vol. XIX. p. 273), 359

Descartes (Cartesius), René du Perron (1596–1650)—Cartesian system, “Principia philosophiæ”: Amstelodami, 1656, 1664, 8, 90, 103, 109, 114, 122, 129, 133, 152, 213, 360, 520.

See Wundt “Philosophische Studien,” Index, p. 23.

Deschanel’s article on thermo-dynamics, 346

Des Essarts. See Essarts, also Lemoyne.

Desgenettes, Nicolas René Dufriche, Baron (1762–1837), 303

Deshais, Medical electricity. See Sauvages.

Deslandes, André François Boureau (1690–1757), 204

Desmarets, Nicolas (1725–1815), “Expériences ...”: Paris, 1754, 151

Desmortiers, Lebouvier, “Observations sur le danger du galvanisme ...” (Journ. de Physique, 1801, p. 467); “Examen des principaux systèmes sur la nature du fluide électrique ...”: Paris, 1813, 326, 330

Désormes, C. B., “Expériences ... l’appareil de Volta” (Ann. de Chimie, XXXVII. 1801, p. 284).

Désormes, Charles Bernard, et Hachette, J. N. P., “Mémoire pour servir à l’histoire ... qu’on nomme galvanisme” (Ann. de Chimie, XLIV. 1802); “Doubleurs de l’électricité” (Ann. de Chimie, XLIX. 1804), 249, 290, 363, 375, 376, 388, 419

Desparquets, “L’électricité appliquée au traitemont des malades,” 1862, 386

Despretz, César Mansuète (1791–1863), 337;

“Traité de physique,” 1837 (Comptes Rendus, XXIX. 1849).

Desrousseaux, F., “L’électricité dévoilée ...,” 1868; “Sources de l’électricité ...,” 1864.

Desruelles (at Zamboni, Giusippe, A.D. 1812), 420

Dessaignes (at A.D. 1811), 415.

On phosphorescence (Phil. Mag., XXXVII. 3, 1811, and XLIV. 313, 1814).

“Destruction of Destruction,” by Averröes, 38

“Destruction of the philosophers,” by Al Gazel, 38

Des Vignes, Pierre (Petri de Vineis), 15

Derwert, Eugenius (at Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus), 519

Detienne (Journ. de Phys., 1775; Scelta d’Opuscoli, XXIV. 1776), 249, 402, 556

Deux, M. (at Cusanus, Nicolas K.), 510

Deux-Ponts-Berigny, L. A., “Observations ...”: Paris, 1856.

Deveria, Charles Théodule (1831–1871), “Le fer et l’aimant ...,” 14, 106

Dezeimers, J. E., “Dictionnaire historique de la médecine,” 105

Dia-magnetic conditions of flame and gases (Phil. Mag., Series IV., Vol. 31, pp. 401–421, 1865).

Diamagnetism, 254, 494, 495.

Consult the following: “Abhandl. der Königl. Sachsischen Gesellschaft der Wiss.”: Göttingen, 1867; “Abhandl. der Königl. Sachsischen Gesellschaft der Wiss.”: Leipzig, 1852, 1867; Becquerel, Edmond, 495; Brugmans, Anton, 254; Faraday, Michael, 494–495; Plücker, Julius, 495 (Pogg. Annalen, LXXII., LXXIII., LXXV., LXXVI.); Oersted (Oversigt over det Kongl ..., 1847, 1848, 1849); Tyndall, John, 411 (Phil. Mag., 1851, 1856; Lieber’s Catal., 1865).

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Diana temple at Ephesus, one of the world’s seven wonders, 18

Dias (mentioned at Aëtius, Amidenus, A.D. 450), 27

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, “Bibliotheca Spenceriana,” 539

Diccionario Universale, Madrid, 1881, 527, 25 Vols., Barcelona, 1877–1899, 528

Dickerson, Dr. (mentioned at Volta, Alessandro, A.D. 1775), 246

Dickinson, Dr. E. N. (mentioned at Schilling, P. L., A.D. 1812), 421

Dictionario Enciclopedico Hispano-Americano.

Dictionary of Arts. See Ure.

Dictionary of Biographical Reference. See Phillips, L. B.

Dictionary of Biography. See Thomas, Joseph.

Dictionary of Electro-Magnetism, 454

Dictionary of Engineering, 362

Dictionary of General Biography. See Cates, W. L. R.

Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Sidney Lee and Leslie Stephen, ix, 32, 39, 41, 77, 80, 91, 95, 97, 105, 107, 109, 122, 125, 127, 128, 134, 158, 160, 172, 201, 203, 209, 256, 296, 297, 308, 477, 482, 518, 521, 522, 530, 548

Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, by J. M. Baldwin, 32, 39, 40

Dictionary of Science (“Athenæum,” Dec. 1871). See Rodwell, G. F.

Dictionary of Universal Biography. See Maunder.

Dictionnaire, biographique Suédois, 141

Dictionnaire classique d’histoire. See Grégoire, L.

Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d’histoire. See Jal, Auguste.

Dictionnaire de biographie. See Larousse Grand Dictionnaire Universel; contains a list of writers on the magnet.

Dictionnaire des sciences médicales, 301, 425

Dictionnaire des sciences philosophiques par une société de savants, 40, 511, 537

Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, 1911 and 1913, 476, 502

Dictionnaire encyclopédique ... de physique. See Brisson, M. J.

Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la France, Le Bas, Philippe, 192

Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences See Grégoire, L.

Dictionnaire général de biographie et d’histoire, 389, 476, 479

Dictionnaire historique de la médecine. See Dezeimers, J. E., Eloy, N. F. J.

Dictionnaire historique, le grand. See Moreri, Louis.

Dictionnaire historique-universel. See Chaudon, L. M.

Dictionnaire raisonné. See Diderot, Denis, et D’Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’.

Dictionnaire technique et pratique d’électricité. See Durant, George.

Dictionnaire universel. See Chaudon, L. M.

Dictionnaire universel, by Bertrand, Elie (1712–1790).

Dictionnaire universel des contemporains. See Vapereau, G.: Paris, 1893.

Dictionnarium Britannicum. .... See Bailey, N.

Diderot, Denis (1713–1784), et D’Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’ (1717–1783), editors of “Encyclopédie en Dictionnaire Raisonné ...,” 224

Diego-Alfonso (mentioned at Gama, Vasco de, A.D. 1497), 69

Dieterici—Dietericii—Friedrich, “Die Philosophie der Araber,” 38

Dietrich, P. F. von (mentioned at 600 B.C.), 10

Diez, John (mentioned at Kendall, Abraham), 522

Digby, Sir Kenelme (1603–1665), 7, 83, 90, 121, 160.

See Biogr. Britan., Vol. V. pp. 184–199.

Digges, Thomas, “A prognostication ...,” 1592, 551