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the satellites of Jupiter, 703; on the
solar spots, 707.
Heat, gradual investigations of its
phenomena, 721 725.
Hebrews, profound feeling
for nature
in their most ancient poetry, 373, 41 1
415 its ; special
at raction for the
nations of the West, 412 its ; characteristics,
412; its bold and faithful
descriptions,
412 413.
Hedschaz, Arabian tribe. (if, 572, 577.
Heeren, on the circumnavigation of
Libya, 488 ; on Madeira, 497 ; on
Ophir, 500; writings of Ctesias,
521 ; extent of the lloman empire,
548.
Hellenic. See Greece, Greeks.
Helmont, Johann Baptiste von, one of
the founders of pneumatic chemistry,
728, 729.
Heraclidavtheir return into Peloponnesus,
512.
Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabice,
landscape paintings discovered at,
442, 443.
Hernandez, physician to Philip II.,
652.
Herodotus, account of ancient paintings,
441 : delight taken by Xerxes
in the great plane-tree olLydia, 461;
his notices of the memorial pillars of
the victories of Ramses Miamen,
486 489 ; notices on the circum-
navigation of Lydia, 489; of the
expeditions and conquests of Ramses
Miamen, 486 488; regarded Scythian
Asia as a portion of Europe,
505; myth of Aristeas, 507; accurate
knowledge of the configuration
of the Caspian Sea, 509, 560; his
description of the Indian races, 530 ;
canal completed by Darius Hystaspes,
539.
Herschel, Sir William, his discovery
of the two innermost satellites of
Saturn, 712.
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Hesiod, his
Works and Days,' 374 ;
doctrine of four ages of the world,
621.
Hicetas of Syracuse, his knowledge of
the earth's rotation on its axis, 469.
Himerius, the Sophist, Eclogues of,
379.
Hippalus, 539.
Hipparchus, his isthmus-hypothesis,
489, 643, 644; the originator of
astronomical tables, and the discoverer
of the precession of the equinoxes,
545, 555.
Hiram, ruler ot'Tyre, 499, 500.
Hirt, on the origin of the French style
of gardening, 390.
Historical events which have extended
the horizon of the physical contemplation
of the universe, 470.
Hiuen-thsang, early Chinese traveller,
512, 6-25.
Hiungnu (a Turkish race), migrations
of, 554, 571.
Hobbima, landscapes of, 447.
Hoces, Francisco de, discovery of Cape
Horn, 642.
Hofi'meister, Dr., girth of the trunk of
the Cedrus deodvara, 534.
Hogeda, Alonso de, 614, 660, 677, 679.
Homer and the Homeric songs, their
beautiful and sublime descriptions
of nature, 375, 376, 399400.
Hooke, Robert, 691, 715 ; correct views
on the rotation of the earth, 723
724; observed the existence of nitrous
particles in the air, 730.
Humboldt, Alexander von, works by,
in various notes :
quoted
Ansichten der Natur, 454.
Asie Centrale, 482, 501, 506, 508
51 1,517, 522523, 526, 534,
637, 544, 556, 559, 578, 584
585, 604, 625, 660.
De distributione Geographica,
Plantarum, 523, 524.
Essai Geognostiqne, sur le Gisement
des Roches, 732.
Politique, sur la Nouvelle
Espagne, 524, 648 649, 658.
Examen Critique de 1'Histoire de
la Geographic, 450, 480, 483,
489, 497, 499, 501, 516, 528,
531, 544, 556, 560, 562, 585,
690,597, 601, 608612, 619,
621, 627, 631, 637, 639, 640
647, 653, 655, 659, 660663,
665668, 672, 677, 678, 680.
Recueil d'Observations Astronomiques,
550.
Relation Historique du Voyage
aux Regions equinoxiales, 371,
480, 493, 498, 524, 609, 640.
668, 718, 723.
Vues des Cordilieres, 125.