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El Tstachri, Arabian geographer, 584.
Elliptic movement of the
covery of, 795799.
planets, dis-
Elmo, S"t., fire of, 425.
'
Elysium, or Islands of the Blessed,' of
the ancients, 496.
Empedocles, his poems 'on 375.
Nature,'
Encke, Professor, on the distance at
which eruptions of Etna are visible
498.
Encyclopaedic, scientific works of the
Middle Ages, 620, 621.
Epochs, early comparisons of among
civilized nations, 475, 476.
Epochs, great, in the advancement of
human knowledge, 683, 698.
Equatorial current, first described by
Columbus, 662, 663.
Eratosthenes, 516, 518, 521, 556 on
the number of peninsulas in the Me-
diterranean, 482; his geographical
labours, 543, 544 ; conjecture of the
equal level of the whole external
sea, 543 ; measurement of degrees,
544; enlarged physical and geognostic
opinions, 543 545, 565.
Ercilla, Don Alonso de. his Epic
poem 'Araucana.' 427,' 428, 642,
664.
Eric Upsi, first bishop of Greenland,
605.
Etna, Mount, on the distance at which
its eruptions are visible, 498.
Etruscans, the, their inland traffic,
602 ; influence of their character on
Rome, and her political institutions,
502 ; their notice of the meteorological
processes of nature, 502
Euclid, 546.
504.
Eudoxus, his attempted circumnavigation
of Cyzicus, 489.
Euripides, picturesque descriptions of
nature in his writings, 377, 378;
prophecy in the chorus of his Medea,
649.
Eutocius, method of. See Numerals.
Everdingen, his landscapes, 447, 454.
Eyck, Hubert and Johann van, land-
"scapes in their paintings, 445.
Fabricius, Johann, first
solar spots, 706, 707.
observed the
Falero, Ruy, Portuguese astronomer,
672.
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Faraday, investigations on dia-magnetic
substances, 718; discovery of the
evolution of light bv magnetic force.
719, 727.
Ferdinandea, volcanic island of, 481.
Finnish Tribes, their poetry, in relation
to nature, 411.
Firdusi, Persian poet, 409; myth of
the origin of the cypress in Paradise,
461.
Flemming, Paul, old German poet,
43->_434.
Forster's '
Delineations of the South
Sea Islands,'
its effect on the author's
mind, 372; his translation of
Sacontala, 405 ; his merits as a
writer, 436, 437.
Frederick 1 1. of Hohenstaufen, letter of,
to his universities, on the transla-
tion of Aristotle, 586, 687; intercourse
with Arabian and Spanish
literati, 588; curious piece of mechanism
presented to him, 592; researches
in natural history, 618.
Frevtag, remark on the Arabic poetry,
416.
Fulgatores, the, of the Etruscans, 502
504.
Galen, of Pergamus, his scientific researches,
550, 563.
Galileo, 591, 700, 701 ; his telescopic
discoveries, 700 714 ; of the mountains
in the moon, 701, 702; satel-
lites of Jupiter, 702704 ; ring of
Saturn, 706, 707 ;
708 ;
solar spots, 706
crescent shape of Venus, 708,
709; conjectures on nebula, 714;
his invention of the binocular telescope,
705 ; thermoscopes, 721 ; on
the origin of the trade winds, 723.
Galle, Dr., on the constellation of the
Southern Cross, 669.
Gardens, pleasure derived from, 462
463; arrangement, 463, 464 ; extent
and character of the Chinese gardens,
462, 463; Roman, 563.
Gassendi, on Copernicus, 684, 693;
on the similarity
of the systems of
Apollonius of Perga and Tycho
Brahe. 693, 694.
Gauss, Frederick, 720.
as blended with national
Geography,
myths, 482, 483.
Geographies, maps
and charts of the