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
Ï'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, "Calcu-
lations
loadstones." See Hamil-
ton, James.
Aberdeen University (at Sir David
Brewster), 466

Aberg, Ulrich Johann, "Comparatio...
magneticam," 1792, 556

Abhand. Berlin Akademie der Wissen-
schaften, 192

Abhand. d. Göttingen Kön. Gesellschaft
der Wissenschaften, 445
Abhand. d. Mathem. . . . Kön. Baier-
ische Akad. der Wissenschaften:
München, 1808-1824, 433, 477
Abhand. d. Naturforschende Gesell-
schaft Halle, 414

Abhand.

zur Geschichte der mathe-
matik Leipzig, 126, 520, 535, 538,
541

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

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 scien-
tiarum utilium. Nova Acta, etc.:
Erfurt, 12 Vols., 218

Academia electoralis scientiarum, also
called Academia Theodoro-Palatina.
Academia scientiarum imperalis petro-
politana. Commentarii, Nova Acta,
etc.: St. Petersburg Imperial
Academy, 140, 204, 214, 232, 273, 274,
368
Academia secretum naturæ, 75
Academia Theodoro-Palatina

Com-

mentarii (Historia et Commenta-
tiones). 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 curio-

sum.

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 of Sciences. See American,
Bavarian, Barcelona, Belgium,
Besançon, Brescia, Brussels, Cam-
bridge (U.S.A.), Copenhagen, Genoa
(147), Lyoua, Madrid, Manheim, Mont-
pellier, Padua, Paris, Prague, Naples,
Saint Petersburg, Stockholm, Turin,
Washington, etc.

Accademia Bonon. et Istituto, Com-
mentarii, 7 Vols. 1731-1791. See
Bologna Academy.

Accademia del Cimento, Saggi di naturali
esperienze (Essays of natural experi-
ments), Firenze (Florence), 96, 129,
143, 554. See Tozzetti, Antinovi, also
Magalotti, Iatromathematical school.
Experiment at A.D. 1684, 143
Accademia Etrusca, Cortona,
Memoirs, etc., Vols. I.-IX.
1791, 58
Accademia Pontificia dei Nuovi Lincei,
Roma, Atti, etc., 71, 380
Accumulator, electrical

Italy,
1755-

(secondary

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

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

Epinus atomized," 218

Epinus, Franciscus Maria Ulricus Theo-
dorus (1724-1802), Mathematical
theory of electricity (at A.D. 1759);
"Sermo Academicus de similitudine
vis electricæ atque magneticæ "; Petro-
poli, 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
Eschylus (525-456 B.C.), 3, 4. See
Euripides.

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

Affaitatus,

Etius, Amidenus, Greek physician (fl.
fifth to sixth century), 26, 27
"Afhandl. i Fisik (Berzelius), 370
Fortunius-Affaydatus-
Italian physicist, 71. See Mazzuchelli,
G. M., Gli Scrittori," Vol. I. Part I.
P. 165.
Africanus, Sextus Julius, Optical signals,

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 Bio-
graphy," 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 promi-
nent Arabian astronomer and mathe-
matician (d. A.D. 929), 502
Al-Battani. See Albategnius.
Albert, M., "Amer. Ann. d. Artz," 224
Albertus Magnus, the Universal
Doctor' (1193-1280), "De Miner-
alibus," 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.),

"

Alessandrini, Antonio, Biografia Itali-
ana": Bologna, 1858. See Bologna,
"Nuovi Annali."
Alexander Aphrodisacus-Aphrodisien-
sis (second century A.D.), 503, 511,
512. See Speng, also Joannes Petrus,
Lucensis.
Russia (at

Alexander, Emperor of
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

(870-950), 37-38

Alfonso Diego. See Diego.

Al-Farabi

Alfonso el IX. (Alfonso-Alonzo-X.,
according to chronological order);
"Las siete Partidas

60, 544

der

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

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
English books on alchemy
Notes and Queries, 8th ser., xi, 363, 464.
Alchimistes du moyen-âge, 514

Alchemy of Happiness," by Moham-
med 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

See

also Romagnosi; Mazzuchelli, G. M.,

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 advance-
ment 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

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), "Philo-
sophia 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 Biblio-
teek..
1773-1796.
Amyot-Amiot-Le Père (1718-1794),

259

I..

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.