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Bcription of physical phenomena, 68-
71.
uanaiy Islands, regardod by Don Fernando,
son of Columbus, as the Cassiteri-
NDEX.
133, 134 ; early notices of, 134, 135.
Caravan trade of the Phcenicians, 130 of
;
Western Asia, 170, 171 ; Egypt, 171, 172.
Cardanus, Hieronyuius, wi-itings of, 260,
261.
Carthage, its geographical site, 120 nav-
;
igation, 132 ; greatness, 149. See Phoenicians.
Carus on the tone of mind awakened by
landscape, 89.
Chinese expedition to,
Caspian Sea, 145 ;
163.
Cassini, Dominicus. his observations on
Saturn's ring, 323, 329 zodiacal ; light,
329.
Cassius, Mount, the probable " amber
coast" of the Phoenicians, 130.
Castilian heroic ages, impulses of, 65.
Castor, Antonius, botanical gardens of.
195.
Catlin on the language and descent of the
Indian tribe of theTuscaroras, 236.
Caucasus, Grecian myths respecting, 144.
Celto-Irish poems, 48.
Cervantes, his Don Quixote and Galatea,
68, 71.
Chseremon, his remarkable love of nature
compared by Sir William Jones to that
of the Indian poets, 28.
Chaldean astronomers and mathematicians,
167, 177.
Charlemasne, " Arabian presents sent to,
220
Charles V., letter to Cortez, 270.
Chateaubriand, Auguste de, 75-77.
Chemistry, pneumatic, dawn of, 344-346 ;
chemical knowledee of the Romans,
194 of the ; Arabs, 211. 212, 217, 218.
Childrey, first observed the zodiacal light,
329.
Chinese, their pleasure gardens, and passages
from their writers on the subject,
103-105 ; antiquity of their chronology,
114, 115 ; warlike expedition to the Caspian,
186 ; Roman embassy to China,
187; early use of the magnetic needle,
191, 253; of movable types in printing,
249.
Chivalric poetry of the thirteenth century,
46.
Christianity, results of its diffusion in the
expansion of the views of men, in their
communion with nature, 38, 39 its hu-
;
nianization of nations, 199.
Chrysostom, his eloquent admiration of
nature, 43.
Cicero on the golden flow of Aristotly's
eloquence, 29; his keen susceptibility
for the beauties of nature, 31, 32 ; on
the ennobling results of its contemplation,
197, 198.
Clmento, Accademia del, scientific re-
searches of, 337-343.
Ci'dUzation, early centers of, 115, 117, 12^J.
35
Classical literature, why so termed, 180 ,
influence of its revival on the contem-
des of the Carthaginians, 132, 133 ; supposed
"happy islands" of the anci*^nts,
plation of nature, 248, 249.
Claude Lorraine, his landscapes, 89, 96.
Claudian, quotation from, on the dominion
of the Romans, 198.
Colfeus of Samos, his passage through the
Pillars of Hercules into the Western
Ocean, 150, 151, 152.
Colchis,
145.
Argonautic expedition to, 144,
Colebrooke on the epochs of the Indian
on the incense of
mathematicians, 187 ;
Arabia, 204, 205 ; Arabic translation of
Diophantus, 224.
Colonna, Vittona, her poems, 64.
Columbus, peculiar charm lent to his de
lineations of nature, 65 their ; religious
and sim-
sentiment, 65 ; their beauty
plicity, 66; his acute and discriminating
observation of nature, 66, 67; his dream
letter to
on the shore of Veragua, 67 ;
Queen Isabella, 78 ; on the land of
Ophir, 138 ; visit to Iceland, 238 died
;
in the belief that the lands discovered
in America were portions of Eastera
Asia, 239, 264, 265 made use of the
;
writings of Cardinal Alliacus, 247, 251 ;
his letter to Ferdinand and Isabella, on
the coast of Veragua, 251 ; on his knowledge
of the loe, 257 scientific charac-
;
teristics, 263, 264, 274 ; erroneous views
on the extent of the Old Continent, 267-
269 heraldic ; bearings bestowed on,
270 ; physical observations in his letter
from Haiti, October, 1498, 276 discov-
;
ery of the magnetic line of no variation,
278, 279 first described the ; equatorial
current, 283, 284 ; the Mar de Sargasso.
285 ;
on the method of taking a ship's
reckoning, 293, 294.
Compass, its discovery and employment,
253-255 ; transmission through the
Arabs to Europe from the Chinese,
253-255.
Conquista, asre of the, great events it embraced,
296.
Conquistadores, impulses which animated
them, 271.
Copernicus, 301; greatness of his epoch,
303 his life and ; studies, 304, 305 ; grandeur
of his views, and boldness of his
teaching, 305-308 his ; eloquent description
of his system, 307, 308 knowl
;
edge of the ideas of the ancients on the
structure of the universe, 310, 311.
Cortenovis, Father Angelo. story related
by, on the tomb of Lars Porsena, 139,
140.
Cortez, Hernan, expeditions of, 270, 271,
296.
Cosa, Juan de la, map of the world, 263,
265 298.
Cosm'as Indicopleustes. 188. 189, 272.
Cosmos, its science and history discriminated,
106, 108.
Coupvent an(\ Dumoulin on the height
of the Peak of Teneriffe, 3 35.
Oovilham, Pedro de, and Alonso de Pavya
embassy to Prester John, 1252