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of mountains in early Italian landscapes,
445, 446.
Hnth, book of, its naive simplicity,
415.
Ruysdael, his landscapes, 447, 454.
Sadi, Persian Poet, 410.
Ste. Croix, 519.
St. Pierre, Bernardin de, 400, 431,
432; inimitable truth to nature of
his writings, 433.
Sanctorius, 591.
Sanscrit language, its
with the Greek, 472.
intermixture
Santa Cruz, Alonzo de, his general
variation chart, 658; proposals for
determining longitudes, 072.
Saturn, gradual discovery of its ring,
705, 706; Kepler's conjectures, 711;
discovery of its satellites, 712.
his observations
Scheiner, Christopher,
on the solar spots, 706 708.
Schiller, on the rarity of descriptions of
nature in the poetry of Greece, 372,
373.
Schiltberger, Hans, of Munich, early
traveller, 434.
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, 519,
527.
Schoner, Johann, of Nuremberg, calumnies
on Amerigo Vespucci, 676,
680 ; superintended the publication
of the writings of Columbus, 686,
687.
Scilla, drawings by, of the petrifactions
of Calabria and Malta, 733.
Scotus, Nicolaus, 602.
Scylax, of Karyanda, explored the
course of the Indus, 506.
Scythians, the, investigations on their
relationship to the Goths, 510.
Sedillot, M., on the astronomical instruments
of the Arabians, 585, 594
595, 630.
See-ma-kuang (early Chinese statesman),
his poem of 'the Garden,' 464.
Seleucida;, 536.
Seleucus of Babylon, his correct know-
ledge of the earth's structure, 469,
691; of astronomy, 544, 545.
Seleucus Nicator, 535, 537.
Seneca, Etruscan Augur-theory, 503,
narrow confines of the earth, 516.
Sevigne, Madame de, letters of, 432.
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Sextus Empiricus, 550
Shakspeare, powerful descriptions of
natural scenery in his writings, 430.
Sidonians, their commerce, knowledge
of astronomy, arithmetic, and navi-
gation, 492. See Plusnicians.
Silius, Italicus, scenery of the Alps
and Italy, 391.
Simplicius, on the date of Babylonian
astronomical notices, 476.
Sismondi, on Camoens, 42G; Ercilla
428.
Solis, Juan Diaz de, discovery of the
Rio de la Plata, 646.
Solomon, route of his maritime expeditions,
499, 500.
Sophocles, beautiful
descriptions of
nature, in his '
CEdipus Colonos,'
377, 462.
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Sousa, Martin Alfonso de, botanic
garden at Bombay, 653.
Southern Cross, constellation of, early
notices, 666 609.
Spanish writers of the 16th century,
characteristics of, 634 640.
Staunton, Sir George, description of
the imperial garden of Zhehol, 463.
Steno, on the substances contained in
rocks, 732.
Strabo, on the Mediterranean coast
line, 481, 482; on Ilamses the
Great, 488; on the circumnavigation
of Libya, 489 ; on the Sidonians,
492; on the Tyrian cities of the
North-west Coast of Africa, 405;
Phoenician commercial settlements in
the Persian Gulf, 499 ; on the Turduli
and Turdetani, 504, 505 ; con-
jecture of undiscovered lands in the
Northern hemisphere, 516; on the
passage of Alexander's army across
the mountainous district of the Paropanisada?,
522 ; his great work on
Geography, 555 558; supposed
existence of another continent between
the west of Europe and Asia,
556, 557, 645.
Sturm, Johann Christian, discoverer of
the differential thermometer, 724.
Suanpan, Mogul reckoning machine,
597.
Syracuse, 513
Tacitus, descriptions
of nature in his