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His discoveries are mostly recorded in the Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society, between the years 1673 and 1723--one hundred and twelve papers in all. His discovery of bacteria is recorded in Phil. Trans, for 1683; and that of the discovery of the capillary circulation of the blood in Phil. Trans, for 1790.
LiNNiEus, Carolus (1707-1778). See vol. ii., p. 299.
His Systema natures was published in 1735. Tro years later (1737) he published Genera plantarum, which is generally considered as the starting-point of modern botany. His published works amount to more than one hundred and eighty.
Mariotte, Edme (died 1684). See vol. ii., p. 210.
Essais de physique (four essays), Paris, 1676-1679. 250
His De la nature de l'air, containing his statement of the law connecting the volume and pressure of a gas, is contained in the second essay.
Newton, Sir Isaac. See vol. ii., p. 241.
Philosophies naturalis principia mathematica, completed in July of 1687. The first edition was exhausted in a few months. There are several translations, among others one by Andrew Motte, New York, 1848.
Paracelsus. See vol. ii., p. 159.
The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus, trans, by A. E.
Waite, 2 vols., London, 1894. Pascal, Blaise. See vol. ii., p. 122.
Recit de la grande experience de Vequilibre de liqueurs, Paris, 1648.
Sawtree, John. See vol. ii., p. 124 ff.
Of the Philosopher's Stone, London, 1652. Swammerdam, John. See vol.
ii., p. 297.
Bibel der Natur, trans, into German, Leipzig, 1752. Sydenham, Thomas.
See vol. ii., p. 189.
His first work, Methodus curandi febres, was published in 1666. His last work, Processus integri, appeared in 1692. His complete works, in Latin, were published by the Sydenham Society, London, 1844, which published also an English translation by Pr. R. G. Latham in 1848. There are several other English translations.
Torricelli, Evanoelista. See vol. ii., p. 120.
Opera geometrica, Florence, 1644. Tycho Brahe. See vol. ii., p. 65.
De mundi aetherei recentioribus phonomenis, Prague, 1603. This has been trans, into German by M. Bruns, Karlsruhe, 1894.
Vinci, Leonardo da. See vol. ii., p. 47.
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist, Thinker, and Man of Science, by Eugene Muntz, 2 vols., New York, 1892, is perhaps the most complete treatment of all phases of Leonardo's work as a scientist as well as an artist. The older French work, Essai sur les ouvrages physico-mathematiques de Leonard de Vinci, by J. B. Venturi, Paris, 1797, is excellent. In German, H.
Grothe's Leonardo da Vinci als Ingenieur und Philosophy Berlin, 1874, is good.
III.--MODERN COSMICAL AND TELLURIC SCIENCES
Aga.s.siz, L. See vol. iii., p. 147.
Etudes sur les glaciers, Neuchatel, 1840. Arago, Francois J. D. See vol.
Hi., p. 67.
Ouvres (complete), if vols., Paris, 1854-1862. Arago's Meteorological Essays, trans, into English, London, 1855. This has an introduction by Humboldt.
Boscovich, Roger Joseph. See vol. iii., p. 293.
Theoria philosophio naturalis redacta ad unicam legem virium in natura existentium, Vienna, 1758. Bradley, James. See vol. iii., p. 13.
Concerning an Apparent Motion Observed in Sotne of the Fixed Stars, London, 1748, Phil. Trans., vol. xlv., pp. 8,9.
Cuvier,*Baron de. See vol. iv., p. 103.
Recherches sur les oss.e.m.e.nts fossiles de quadrupedes, 4 vols., Paris, 1812. (The introduction to this work was translated and published as a volume bearing t.i.tle of Theory of the Earth, New York, 1818.)
Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph. See vol. iii., p. 16.
Histoire d'astronomie, Paris, 1817-1821. This work contains not only the history of the discoveries in astronomy, but is also a complete text-book of astronomy as understood at this period.
Falconer, Hugh. See vol. iii., p. 99.
In Paloontological Memoirs, vol. ii., pp. 596-598. 252
Herschbl, William. See vol. iii., p. 20 ff.
On the Proper Motion of the Solar System, Phil. Trans., vol. 73, for 1783. (This paper was read in March, 1783.) The Const.i.tution of the Heavens, Phil. Trans, for 1785, vol. 75, p. 213. Howard, Luke. See vol.
iii., p. 182.
Philosophical Magazine, 1803. Humboldt, Alexander von. See vol. iii., p.
192.
Des lignes isothermes et de la distribution de la chaleur sur le globe, published in vol. iii., of Memoires de physique et de chimie de la Societe d'Arcueil, Paris, 1819. Hutton, James. See vol. iii., p. 178.
Theory of Rain, in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1788, vol. i., pp. 53-56. See vol. iii., p. 121. From Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1788, vol. i., pp. 214-304. A paper on the "Theory of the Earth," read before the society in 1781.
Kant, Immanuel (i724-1804). See vol. iii., p. 27.
Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels, 1755. Cosmogony, ed.
and trans, by W. Hartie, D.D., Glasgow, 1900.
Laplace, M. le Marquis de. See vol. iii., p. 32.
Exposition du systeme du monde, Paris, 1796, is available in Ouvres completes, in 12 vols., Paris, 1825-1833^01. vi., p. 498. Lyell, Charles. See vol. iii., p. 88.
Principles of Geology, 4 vols., London, 1834.
Marsh, O. C. See vol. Hi., p. 107.
Fossil Horses in America (reprinted from American Naturalist, vol.
