Buffon, 318, 335, 372, 386 Bunsen, 353 Bürgi, 244, 252 Cæsar, 143 Cube, Duplication of, 68, 71, 75, 76, 108, Cubic Equations, 100, 135, 163, 179, Calculus, 96, 99, 112, 147, 253, 273, 279, Cusa, Nicholas of, 192 Clausius, 357, 364 Clepsydra, 27, 40, 127, 148, 163 Clocks, 188, 248, 266, 287, 328 Combustion, 260, 262, 307, 309 Comparative Anatomy, 390 Computation, 41, 147, 182, 236, 242 Coördinates, 110, 122, 125, 273, 277 Cotton Gin, 441 Coulomb, 354 Counting, 23-25 Crusades, 172 Crystallography, 364 Ctesibius, 123 Dürer, A., 235 Dynamics, 248, 293 Dynamite, 439 Earth, Motion of, 54, 85, 116, 128, 192, 195 Size of, 82, 107, 163, 199 Eclipses, 10, 28, 30, 43, 55, 121, 129 Economy of Nature, 282, 283, 390 Egypt, 11, 29–34, 36, 43, 45, 49, 139 Electricity, 313, 354, 445 Electrolysis, 364 Electromagnetic Theory of Light, 355 Elements, 45, 47, 52, 59, 74, 83, 261, Ellipse, 99, 110, 279, 280 Embryology, 256, 375 Empedocles, 59 Energy, 348, 349, 355, 357, 358 Engineering, 104, 123, 142, 321, 447 Epicurus, 84 Epicycles, 118, 129, 199, 212 Epigenesis, 375 Equant, 129, 199 Fluids, 249, 289. (See also Hydrostatics) Hindu Science, 156-160 Galileo, 63, 217-226, 230, 245-253, 267, Huygens, 266, 286 283, 287, 292, 327 Refrigeration, 445 Telephone, 445 Telescope, 215, 219, 229, 266, 267, 291, 313 Thales, 42 Theætetus, 70, 88 Theon, 38, 90 Refraction, 132, 163, 181, 215, 265, 266, Theophrastus, 46, 47, 84 Thermodynamics, 351, 365 Thermometer, 249, 267 Volta, 314 Vortices, 278 Thomson, W., 278, 341, 356, 358, 362 Three Bodies, Problem of, 331 Tides, 117, 181 Time Measurement, 27, 39, 127, 207, 247 Wall, 314 Timocharis, 119 Torricelli, 253, 256 Treviranus, 371, 392 Wallace, 367, 395 Wallis, 269, 289 Water, Composition of, 309, 316 Trigonometry, 115, 122, 128, 133, 163, Watson, 314 193, 241 Trisection of Angle, 29, 65, 241 Trivium, 148, 174 Tycho Brahe, 203-209 Tyndall, 311, 382 Universities, 175, 184, 321 Uraniborg, 206 Uranus, 333, 342 Vaccination, 322, 425 Vitruvius, 103, 143 Watt, 312, 320, 441 Week, 22 Weismann, 396 Werner, 317, 386 Wheeler, 314 Wöhler, 363, 375, 391 Wren, 288 Xenocrates, 77 Year, 21, 38, 120 Zeno, 66 Zero, 40, 159 Zoology, 315, 317, 371, 372 Printed in the United States of America. |