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Bacon, Roper, 396, 602, 615, 617,
700 ;
liis scientific writings and their
influence on tho extension of the
natural sciences, 619, 620.
Balboa, Vasco Nunez de, his navigation
of tho Pticilir, 12 tilO, 04S.
Banana (tho), the aru'iia of Pliny, 524,
525.
Barometer, invention of, 722; hypsoniftrical
uses, 723.
Barros, Johannes, Portuguese histo-
rian, writings of,
072.
614,649, 650, 670,
Basil the Great, simple and beautiful
description of Nature in his letter to
Gregory of Nazianzum, 393 394;
his Hexameron, 395.
Behaim, Martin, of Nurnberg, 613,
631,645616,670.
Bembo, Cardinal, his /Etna Dialogus,
3S7, 420; Historian Venetee, 420.
Berghaus, Professor, on the
the Roman Empire, 548.
extent of
Beriguardi, Claudio, first observed the
pressure of the atmosphere at varying
altitudes, 722.
Bernaldez, Andres, MS. writings
641.
Bhatti-Kavya,
of,
Indian poem, 407.
Bles, Henry de, Flemish landscape
painter, 446.
Boccaccio, a reviver of the study of
classical literature, 622, 623.
Bockh, on the '
Adonis Gardens '
of the
ancients, 450 ; on the knowledge of
the Pythagoreans of the
'
precession,'
545.
Bodner, Carl, fidelity of his drawings
to nature, 451.
Boethius, Geometry of, 597.
Boiardo, smaller poems of, 419.
Boreas, meteorological myth of, 511.
Botanical knowledge of the Arabs,
581, 587; of the Mexicans, 652.
Brahmagupta, Indian 555.
mathematician,
Brahmins, and Brahminical
534, 535.
districts,
Breughel, Jouann, his fruit
pieces,
and flower
449.
Brewster, Sir David, on Kepler's method
of investigating truth, 710; important
discovery of the connection
between the angle of complete polarisation
ana the index of refraction,
715; on the date of Newton's optical
discoveries, 716.
Brevtenlach, Bernhard von, early traveller,
434.
Bril, Matthew and Paul, Flemish
landscape painters, 446.
Brongniart, Alexander, palaeontological
researches of, 733.
Bruchium, Library of, 542.
Bucolic poetry, its characteristics, 378.
Button, 431 ; deficiency of personal
observation in his writings, 431,432.
Bunsen, Chevalier, note from his
'
Egypt,' 486.
Byron, Lord, his poetry, 433.
Cabot, Sebastian, vovages and discoveries
of, 640642", 657, 608.
Cabral, Alvarez, 614, 639.
Cabrillo, Rodriguez, 602, 649.
Csesar,
558.
Julius, writings of, 388, 391,
Calderon, dazzling descriptions
ture, in his writings, 429.
of na-
Callimachus,
Nature, in
gloomy descriptions of
'
his Hymn on Delos,'
377.
Callisthenes of Olynthus, 529, 530,
532.
Camoens, faithful individuality of nature
in his '
Lusiad,' and its inimitable
description of physical phenomena,
424 427.
Canary Islands, regarded by Don
Fernando, son of Columbus, as the
Cassiterides, of the Carthagenians,
of
495 ; supposed '
happy
the ancients, 496 : early
'
islands notices 497.
of,
Caravan trade, of the Phoenicians, 492,
493; of Western Asia, 536, 537;
Egypt, 538.
Cardanus
636, 637.
Hieronymus, writings of,
Carthage, its geographical site, 481 ;
navigation, 405; greatness, 513.
See Phoenicians.
Carus, on tlu tone of mind, awakened
by landscape, 447.
Caspian Sea, 508, 509; Chinese expedition
to, 553.
Cassini, Dominicus, his observations
on Saturn's ring, 706, 712; Zodiacal
light, 712.