119,260Kelvin, Lord,139,228,258Kepler,40,333Kidneys of the bird,136Kinnersley,83Kircher,26,41,70Kite incident,131;lightning,121Klaproth,7,224Kleist, Dean von,87Klopstock,223Kneller, Father,177Knowledge, subjective and objective,247Koerner,223,265Kohlrausch,286LLaboratory, First physical,368Laennec,139Lagrange,244,343Lamont,270Larmor, Dr. Joseph,66Langberg,287Langsdorff,260Languages, Special gift for,167Laplace,254,391Learning, A little,160Lectures to the working people,350Leibnitz,245Lejeune Dirichlet,271Lenz,284Lesage,219Lessing,222Leverrier,251Libri,27Light an electric phenomenon,344;polarized,316Lightning conductor, The Divisch,111;kite,121;rods,101,104,114;storm,116Life, Future,331;happiness,355Lines of magnetic force,313Linnæus,238Livius Sanutus,49Livres dou Tresor,9Lockwood, Thomas D.,275Lodestone,2Lodge, Sir Oliver,71,246Lombroso,246Lor, M. de,122Lucretius,2,167Ludwig I.,278Lucan,235MMackenzie, Colin,358Machines, Simple,192,199Magaud,187Magiae Naturalis,35Magic, Natural,215Magnes, Loadstone challenge,34Magnetic declination,47;dip,29;fields,42,313;figures,3;inclination,31;meridian,45;motor,16Magnet and Chinese,7;flesh,5;gold,6;polarity of,4;white,6Magnetism,70,202;into electricity,315Magnetismus,40Magnetization, Permanent,206Magnetometer,44Mahomet's sarcophagus,65Makers of Modern Medicine,13Malebranche,248Man proposes,289Manzolini, Madame,154Marcet, Mrs.,301Maria Theresa,110Mariotte,245Marriage, Faraday's,329Marshall, Chas.,218Martinique,191Martius,298Mass and weight,56;of the earth,58Mathematics, Without a taste for,262Matter and force,320;ultimate structure of,282;al tripos,364Maxwell,313,388;the man,359Memberships, Honorary,332Memory, Wonderful,236Menon, Abbé,77Mental powers and morals,331Message, Inaugural,376Metaphysics,247,222Meteorological machine,112Mind, Concentration of,169Mirror, Galvanometer,375Mitchell, John,84,189Mojon,207Molecular torrent,86Molecules,353Money-making, Faraday on,309Monge,224Montucla,244Morality, Absolute,247Morrison, Charles,218Motion, Perpetual,18Moscow,265Mottelay, P. Fleury,66Mullaly, John,377Müller, Johann,338Mullock, Bishop,373Muscle-twitchings,175Musschenbroek,86,211Myopia,239NNapoleon,179,202,247Near-sightedness,239Negative,126Neptune,251Newe Attractive,33Newman, Cardinal,353Newton,74,139,197,244,333,389;Principia,62,208Nollet, Abbé,77,95,101,170Norman,29,59Novum Organum,13OOersted,208,232,249;discusses evolution,227Ohm, Martin,262,270Ohm's law,189,251,258;of acoustics,282;goodness of heart,296Ohm's personal appearance,293;preface,274Olbers,224Opus Majus,10Opus Tertiam,12Orb of virtue,33Orchestrion,115Origin of Species,227Ostwald,361Oval curves,337Ozanam,253PPaine,127Palladius,5Paralysis,148Paris, Dr.,304Parkinson,365Pascal,256Pasteur,185,282,310Pavia, University of,173Pellagra,184Pellico, Sylvio,187Peregrinus,3,8,11Perry, Prof. John,369Pfaff,276Philosopher of Copenhagen,210Philosophia Magnetica,3Philosophical Society,307Philosophy, Small draughts of,160Physics text-book,291Pierre le Pélérin,12Pile,205Pivoted compass,9Plagiarism,63Planta, Martin de,74Plato,1,213Pliny,4Poet and scientist,323Poem, Mathematical,364Poggendorff,276,284,375Pohl,276Poincaré,344Polaric,24Polarity,4,200Polarization,200Polyhedrons,244Pope Alexander VI.,24;Clement IV.,10;Paul III.,54;Leo X.,215Popularization of science,350Porta,215Positive,126Potential,70Potato,174Pouillet,284Power, Feeble directive,51Preece, Sir William,107Premonstratensian Order,107Premonition,266Priestley,106,121,167,171,231Pringle, Sir John,101Priority in discoveries,133Prometheus, Modern,119Providence,327;particular, general,127Pseudodoxia Epidemica,70Psychology,246Ptolemy,54QQuacks,52Quackery,149RRadowitz, General,278Rainbow,333Ramsay, Sir Wm.,369Ramsden,74Rayleigh, Lord,388Raymond Lully,10Reid,368Religion,129Republic, Cis-Alpine,156Repulsion, Magnetic,2Resurrection,129Retina,348Richet,246Richmann,106Righi,71Ritter,224Robespierre,114Roentgen,211Romagnosi,206Ronaldo,219Ross, Sir James,30Rotch,104Rousseau,238Rowland,94Rush, Benjamin,165SSacchetti,153Samothracian rings,3Saturn's Rings,339Scarpa,137Schelling,224Schiller,223Schlegel,223Schweigger,273Science and free will,352;and religion,185;classification of,252;experimental,37;high priest of,295Sebec,281Secular variation,49Semi-circular canals,138Senses, Seven,387Series,90Seventh Sense,387Shakespeare's Cliff,329Siena, Cathedral,115Siger,17Silurus electricus,150Siphon-recorder,375Skill, Mechanical,273Smith's Prize,336,365Snell,244Sophocles,355Soundings of deep sea,384Sound, Perception of,282Southey,8Spectator,215Spence, Dr.,82Sphere, Electrified,198Spirit of mathematical analysis,262Squaring of the circle,243Saint Aloysius,134;Augustine,53,254;Francis, Third Order of,161;Thomas,63Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy,252Statics,199Stereoscope, Real image,348Stethoscope,139Stevin,49Stewart, Balfour,388Stimmen aus Maria-Laach,177Stokes,364Stoney,388Strada,216Strain in the ether,356Structure of physical bodies,282Stuber, Dr.,119Sturgeon,70Sugar from beet-root,306Sulzer,176Superfluous, Elimination of,283Suspension of the earth,60Swammerdam,144TTaisnier,26,63Tait,334,337,342Tampering with the lodestone,6Tandem,90Taprobane,5Tasso,166,235Taylor's scientific memoirs,276Telephone,70Terrella,44Terrestrial magnetism,51Terror, Reign of,201Test-nail method,44Text-books, Maxwell's,349Thales,2Theory of induction,314;of the Leyden-jar,88;two-fluid,126Thévenot,20Thimble-cell,379Thompson, James,362;Silvanus P.,27,63,80,371;Wm.,361Thunderbolt,117Toaldo, Padre,115Torpedo,150Torsion balance,84,188Torque,200Tripos,365Truth of the future,331Twitchings of frogs,135Tycho Brahé,68Tyndall,299UUhland,223,265Understanding and personal investigation,268University degrees,265Unworkable,357;extension,225Uranus,251VVan Helmont,70Van Troostwijk,361Variation of the compass,21Vaults, The statics of,191Venedey,271Venturoli,156Verses, Latin,239Virchow,293Virgil,166Virgilius,53Vitry, Cardinal Jacques de,8Volta,162;anticipation of,176;faith,186;honored,180;piety;183;pile,177Voltaic pile,176Voltaire,235Vortex,372WWallace,244,246Watson,70,95Waves, Hertzian,342Wealth, Three ways to,127Weber,342Weight, Accidental,57;and mass of the earth,56,58Wenckebach,21Werner,224Wheatstone,70Wilson, Dr. Benjamin,101Wimshurst,