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Post, Franz, his paintings of South
American landscapes, 449, 450.
Poussin, Gaspnrd and Nicholas, their
landscapes, 447, 454.
Printing, invention of, 623.
Prometheus, myth of, 508.
Psalms, the, their sublime poetic feeling
for nature, 411, 413. 414.
Ptolemacus, Claudius, on the locality
of Sapphara, 499, 500 ; influence of
his Universal Geography, its merits
and defects, 558560; researches
on optical refraction, 550, 551, 561,
562; geographical and mathematical
knowledge, 550, 551, 555: on the
configuration of the 561.
Caspian, 560,
Ptolemies, the, important result of their
rule in Egypt, 536 546; their intercourse
with distant countries, 538
540; scientific expeditions, 540,
541; peculiar character of the Ptolemaic
period, 641; accessions to
general knowledge, 543; to astronomical
knowledge, 544 546; mathematical
investigations, 546.
his restoration
Ptolemy, Philadelphus,
of the canal of Darius Hystaspes,
539; scientific researches, 540, 541.
Punic, see Carthage, Phoenicians;
Punic work on agriculture, 553.
Pythagoreans, their views on the structure
of the universe, 469; on the
motion of the planets, 695 697.
Quatremere, Etienne, on the circumnavigation
of Libya, 489; on the
locality of Ophir, 500.
Quinsay, Chinese city, as described by
Rubruquis, 624; erroneous views of
Columbus on its geographical locality,
644, 645.
Rachias, his embassy from Ceylon to
Rome, 554.
Rafn, Christian, American antiquities
of, 603, 606, 607.
Ramayana, Indian heroic poem. 404,
406, 407.
Ramses Miamen, King of Egypt, his
expeditions, victories, and achievements,
486, 487, 539.
Razes, Arabian Chemist, 589.
Realists, school of, in the middle ages,
617.
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Red Sea, canal of, early attempts
at its
construction, 539.
Regiomontanus (Johann. Miiller), 630,
644, 685 ; ou the anatomical dissections
of Aristotle, 529; on the drawings
of petrifactions by Scilla, 733 ; meteoroscope
of, 631 ; astronomical
ephemerides, 671.
Reisch, Gregory, Margarita Philosophica,
621,676, 677.
Remusat, Abel, researches on the
Indo-Germanic races, 554.
Renaud, his researches on the intercourse
of the Arabs and Persians
with India, 583, 584.
Reubens, truth and vividness of his
landscapes, 448.
Rey, Jean, one of the founders of
pneumatic chemistry, 728; experiments
by, 729
Rhakotis, library of, 542.
Ritter, Carl, his monograph on incense,
574.
Romans, the, rarity of their poetic de-
scriptions of nature, 382; their
landscape paintings, 442 444; influence
of their universal dominion,
547 568; extent of their empire
and its diversity, 548, 549; their
expeditions and statistical labours,
549; (on the superior scientific
knowledge of the Hellenic races,
550, 551 ;) causes of the rise and fall
of their universal sway, 551, 552;
embassy to China, 554, 555; use of
Avay measurers in their navigation,
631, 632.
Romer, Olaus, discovery of the measurable
velocity of light, 716.
Rosen, Friedrich, translated the Algebra
of Mohammed Ben-Musa, 596.
Ross, Sir James Clark, Antarctic expedition
of, 720.
Ross, Ludwig,, on the early intercourse
between Greece and Egypt, 490.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 431, 432.
Riickert, his translations from Eastern
literature, 408, 416.
Rufus, of 563.
Ephesus, early anatomist,
Ruisbrock (Rubruquis), travels of, and
results
640.
of his narrative, 624, 625,
Rumohr, Baron von, description
c 2
of an
early Psalter, 444 ; on conical form*