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lack Asiatic races, 531; on the incense
of Arabia, 574.
Leibnitz, character of his Protogoea,
734, 735.
Leif, his discovery of America, 603,
604, 607.
Lepsius, his chronological data for
Egypt, 475, 486 on the monuments
;
of the distant expeditions of Ramses
Miamen, 487; on the Semitic written
characters, 491.
Letronne, on the Greek Zodiac, 533,
534 on the canal of the Red ; Sea,
540; on the epoch of Diophantus,
551 on the ;
early discoveries of the
Irish, 608.
Leignitz, Mongolian battle at, 571,
6-24.
Lieu-tscheu, ancient Chinese writer,
on the pleasure felt in the possession
of gardens, 462, 463.
Light, gradual discovery of its phenomena,
715 717.
Lippershey, Hans, his claims to the
discovery of the telescope discussed,
699701.
Lister, early researches by, in palffiontology,
733.
Livy, writings of, 388.
Log, use of in navigation, and date of
its introduction, 631634.
Longinus, 531.
Longus, his pastoral romance, '
et Chloe,' 380.
Lb'nnrott, Elias,
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Daphnis
collection of Finnish
songs, 411.
Lucan, vivid description of nature in
his works, 387.
Lucius the younger, his didactic poem
of .Etna/387.
Lucretius, his great poem, ' De Natura,'
382, 383, 425.
Ltidius, ancient Roman painter, 442.
Luis, Fray de Leon, description of
night, 429.
Lully, Raymond, scientific acquirements
of,' 629, 630.
Lusiad, of Camoens, its truth to nature,
424427.
Macedo, J. J. da Costa de, work on the
discovery of the Canaries, 497.
Macedonians, influence of their cam-
paigns under Alexander the Great,
517, 518, 560.
Macpherson's Ossian, 402.
Madeira, supposed notice of in Plu-
tarch, 497.
Madoc, western voyage
610.
of, 608, 609
Magellan, navigation and discoveries
of, in the Pacific, 646, 647.
Magellanic clouds, first notices of, 665,
666, 714.
Magnetism, observations and discoveries
in the middle ages of Colum-
bus, 654657; Cabot, 657, 658;
Gassendi, 658; Robert Norman,
658, 718; modern researcnes, William
Gilbert's, 717. 718; Arago,
718; Faraday, 718, 719 ; Edmund
Halley, 719 ; Frederick Gauss, 720,
Antarctic expeditions, 719, 720.
Mahabharata, Indian heroic poem,
404, 406, 407, 511, 521.
Malus, discovery of polarisation by,
715, 727.
Mandeville, John, his travels, 434;
their characteristics, 625.
Manetho, Egyptian dynasty of, 486.
Marco Polo, his travels and admirable
narrative, 624 626; early editions
of, and whether known to Columbus,
626.
Marinus Sanuto, writings of 627, 628.
Marinus of Tyre, his isthmus hypothesis,
489, 643; myth on the
Indian Ocean, 561 ; on the breadth
of the old continent, 645.
Marius, Simon, on the invention of the
telescope, 700, 701; discovered the
moons of Jupiter simultaneously with
Galileo, 702, 703; nebula in Andromeda,
714.
Martel, Charles, on the results of his
victory over the Moslems at 571.
Tours,
Masudi, Arabian historian, account of
the remains of a ship of the Red Sea,
489.
Materia Medica, Hindoo and Arabic
knowledge of, 581.
Mathematicians, Grecian, 529, 530,
543546; Babylonian, 533; Indian
535, 596, 597; Arabic, 596; of the
middle ages, 619, 620, 630, 661;
modern, 683 737.
Mayow, on the influence of nitrous
particles in the air, 730.
Mediterranean, its geographical pori-