Kant, his philosophical doctrines, i. |
232.
Kempis, Thomas à, author of the
"Imitation of Christ," ii. 196.
Kepler, the effect of the discovery of
his laws, i. 4.
His work prohibited by the Inqui-
sition, ii. 263.
His mode of inquiry, ii. 266.
Discovery of his laws, ii. 267.
Cause of his laws, ii. 274.
Lawyers, their agency first recognized,
ii. 81.
Their power antagonistic to the
ecclesiastical, ii. 82.
Their opposition to supernaturalism,
ii. 113.
Leaning towers, i. 30.
Leaves of plants, their action, ii. 339
Legends of Western Saints, i. 435.
Legion, Roman, how constructed, i
251.
Kiersi, Council of, quotation from, i. Leibnitz, his doctrine of the mind, i.
Kirk's lambs, ferocity of, ii. 244.
Koran, passages from the i. 331.
Review of the, i. 340.
Labarum, story of, believed, i. 309.
Lactantius, his argument against the
globular form of the earth, i.
315.
"Ladder of Paradise," ii. 59.
Langton, Stephen, Magna Charta ori-
ginates from his suggestion, ii.
54.
Languages, modern, their effects, ii.
192.
Languedoc, light literature of, ii. 35.
Laplace discovers the cause of the
irregularity of the moon's motion,
ii. 278.
On some of the phenomena of the
solar system, ii. 280.
Lapland, cause of the contentment
and inferiority of, i. 13.
Lateran Council, second, vests the
elective power to the Papacy in
the Cardinals, ii. 15.
Third, defines the new basis of the
Papal system, ii. 18.
Fourth, establishes the necessity of
auricular confession, ii. 65.
Latin, the use of, as a sacred language,
required by the Church, ii. 191.
Lavaur, massacre of, ii. 62.
Law, the world ruled by, i. 20.
Succession of affairs determined by,
1. 389.
Eternity and universality of, ii.
Publishes an edict prohibiting the
worship of images, i. 417.
Leo X., Pope, exposed to obloquy, ii.
213.
His character, ii. 215.
Is reported to have contracted
syphilis, ii, 232.
Leontius Pilatus, description of, by
Boccaccio, ii. 194.
Lesches, poems of, i. 51.
Levites, their manner of healing, i.
400.
Lewenhoeck discovers spermatozoa, ii.
286.
Liberty not appreciated in India, i.
62.
Mental when maintained, ii. 227.
Libraries, Alexandrian, size of, L
188.
Establishment of, i. 317.
Licinius neutralizes the policy of Con
stantine, i. 278.
Life, individual, is of a mixed kind, i. | Lombards, converted at the beginning
of the sixth century, i. 365.
London, condition of, towards the
close of the seventeenth century,
Lorenzo de' Medici, his patronage of
literature and philosophy, ii. 195.
Loretto, miracle of, ii. 80.
Louis XIV., his order in council pun-
ishing sorcery, ii. 118.
Louis, St., his character, ii. 73.
Lucius Apuleius, i. 211.
Lucretius, the irreligious nature of his
poem, i. 257.
Luitprand captures Ravenna, i. 422.
Luitprand quoted on Constantinople,
Luther, experiences of, ii. 117.
The revolt of, ii. 149.
History of, ii. 208.
Excommunication of, ii. 211.
Looked upon with contempt by the
Italians, ii. 215.
Lyceum, Aristotle founds a school in,
i. 176.
Lyons, Council of, ii. 71.
Macaulay, Lord, has taken too limited
a view of the Reformation, ii.
227.
Macedonian campaign opens a new
world to the Greeks, i. 45.
Its ruinous effects on Greece, i. 172.
Its effect on intellectual progress, i.
186.
Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople,
his heresy, i. 289.
Machiavelli, the principles of, ii. 137.
His "History of Florence," ii.143.
Machinery, social changes effected by,
Magellan, his great voyage, ii. 169.
Magic and necromancy, Plotinus re-
sorts to, i. 214.
Magic lantern, ii. 380.
Magna Charta originates from a sug-
gestion of Stephen Langton, ii.
54.
Magnet supposed by Thales to have a
living soul, i. 97.
Magnetic variation, discovery of the
line of, ii. 163.
Erroneously supposed by Columbus
to be immovable, ii. 165.
Magnetism, discoveries in, ii. 378.
Maimonides, his life and writings, ii.
124.
Malpighi devotes himself to botany,
ii. 286.
Applies the microscope to anatomy,
ii. 286.
Man the archetype of society, i. 2.
Controlled by physical agents, i. 10.
Variations of, i. 11.
First form of, according to Anaxi-
mander, i. 107.
Nature and development of, i. 233.
His race connections, i. 234.
Apparent position of, on the helio-
centric theory, ii. 337.
Marco Polo, ii. 174.
Marcus Græcus gives the composition
of gunpowder, i. 408.
Mareotis, Lake, i. 323.
Mariner's compass introduced by the
Arabs, ii. 43.
Marozia, her infamy and cruelty, i.
380.
Marriage, compulsory in the time of
Augustus, i. 253.
Sinfulness of, according to the prin-
ciples of the monks, i. 426.
Marsilio, his work "The Defender of
Peace," ii. 93.
Marsilius Ficinus, the Platonist, ii.
193.
Masué, John, the Nestorian, superin-
tendence of schools entrusted to,
by Haroun al Raschid, i. 392,
ii. 36.
Matilda, Countess, aids Gregory VII.,
ii. 16.
Calumniated by the married clergy,
ii. 17.
Matter, its indestructibility, ii. 375.
Maximum of certainty, i. 236.
Maximus Tyrius, i. 259.
Max Muller on language, i. 33.
Mayow on respiration, ii. 286.
Mechanical invention, effect of, ii. 384.
Medicine, Byzantine, suppression of
Origin of Greek, i. 393.
Egyptian, i. 397.
Alexandrian, i. 398.
Mediterranean Sea, its dependencies
and extent, i. 28.
Propriety of its name, i. 39.
Wonders of, i. 41.
Trade of, ii. 158.
Megaric school, i. 148.
Melanchthon, ii. 211.
Melissus of Samos, an Eleatic, i. 123.
Melloni first polarizes light, ii. 390.
Mendicant Orders, establishment of,
ii. 62.
Menu, institutes of, i. 63.
Extract from, i. 224.
Metaphysics, Aristotle's, i. 178.
Uncertainty of, ii. 344.
Meteoric stone, boasted prediction of
fall of, i. 111.
Mexico, social condition of, ii. 175.
Michael the Stammerer, his incredu-
lity and profanity, i. 420.
Middle Ages, their condition, i. 139.
Migration of birds, i. 6.
Milan, Bishop of, excommunicated, ii.
17.
Milky way, as explained by the Py-
thagoreans, i. 117.
Milton, his "Paradise Lost" a Mani-
chean composition, ii. 245.
In favour of the Copernican system,
ii. 260.
Miracle cure, i. 386.
Plays, ii. 246.
Missionaries, Irish and British, i. 366.
Mithridates, King of Pontus, studies
poisons and antidotes, i. 400.
Moawiyah, Khalif, sends his lieutenant
against Africa, i. 334.
Rebuilds the church of Edessa, i.
338.
Mostlin quoted in favour of the Co-
pernican system, ii. 266.
Mohammed subject to delusions, i. 148,
330.
History of, i. 329.
Mohammed II., i. 107.
Mohammedanism, causes of the spread
of, i. 337.
Popular, i. 345.
Sects of, i. 347.
Arrest of, in Western Europe, ii. 30.
Literature of, ii. 34.
Uniformly patronized physical sci-
ence, ii. 121.
Monasteries, condition of Europe at
the suppression of, ii. 230.
Monasticism, amelioration of, i. 431.
Spread of, from Egypt, i. 433.
Monks, African and European, i. 237.
Labours and successes of, i. 365.
Their origin and history, i. 424.
Differences of Eastern and Western,
i. 434.
Their intellectual influence, i. 438.
Monotheism preceded by imperialism,
i. 256.
Roman, its boundaries, i. 261.
Montanus, the pretended Paraclete, i.
291.
Moon, variations of, discovered b
Aboul Wefa, i, 325.
Volcanic action in, ii. 304.
Moors boast of an Arab descent, i. 337.
Moral plays, ii. 248.
Moris, Lake, i. 96.
Moslems, their creed, ii. 37.
Motion, the three laws of, ii. 269.
Muggleton, Lewis, his doctrines, ii.
Murdoch invents the locomotive, ii.
387.
Musa completes the conquest of Africa,
i. 333.
Arrested at the head of his army, i.
369.
Museum of Alexandria, i. 187.
Its studies arranged in four facul-
ties, i. 397.
Music, scale of, invented by Guido, i.
437.
Mycene, gate of, i. 32.
Mythology, Greek, origin of, i. 37.
Napier invents and perfects loga-
rithms, ii. 285.
Narses, the eunuch, sent by Justi
nian against Rome, i. 351.
Nations, progress of, like that of in-
dividuals, i. 12.
Secular variations of, i. 16.
Death of, i. 17.
Are only transitional forms, i. 17.
Nearchus, an intimate friend of Alex-
ander the Great, i. 173.
Nebulæ, existence of, ii. 282.
Nebular hypothesis, ii. 281.
Necromancy, Alexandrian, i. 404.
Neo-Platonism, its origin imputed to
Ammonius Saccas, i. 211.
Nervous system, general view of, ii.
346.
Three distinct parts of human, ii.
353.
Nestorians, their origin, i. 295.
Early cultivate medicine, i, 385.
Their history and progress, i. 391.
New academy founded by Carneades,
i. 169.
Newspapers, their origin, ii. 204.
When first regularly issued in Eng-
land, ii. 249.
Were first issued in Italy, ii. 390.
Newton, quotation from "Principia
of, i. 120.
Availed himself of the doctrines of
Hipparchus, i. 202.
Under no obligation to Bacon, ii.
259.
Publication of the "Principia" of,
His mathematical learning and ex-
perimental skill, ii. 286.
Niagara Falls furnish proof of time
from effect produced, ii. 305.
Prove the enormous age of the
earth, ii. 334.
Nicæa, Council of, summoned by Con-
stantine, i. 286.
Second council of, summoned by
Irene, i. 420.
Nicene Creed, i. 287.
Nicholas V. a patron of art, ii. 110.
Nicomedia, church of, destroyed, i. 277.
Niebuhr, his opinion of the Greek ac
count of the Persian war, i. 131.
Nile, inundations of, i. 86.
Nirwana, the end of successive exist-
ences in the Buddhist doctrine,
i. 71, 230.
Nitria, why well adapted for monks, i.
432.
Nogaret, William de, the legal advi-
ser of Boniface, ii. 84.
Advises King Philip the Fair, ii.
91.
Nomades, Asiatic, i. 29.
Nominalism, doctrine of, sprang from
scholastic philosophy, ii. 11.
Norman invasion of England favoured
by Pope Gregory VII., ii. 16.
Norway, depth of rain in, i. 25.
Elevation and depression in level of,
ii, 307.
Norwegians, diet of, accounted for, i.
27.
Novatus the heretic, i. 284.
Number the first principle according
to the Pythagorean philosophy,
Numenius, a Trinitarian, i. 211.
Numerals, Arabic, derived from the
Hindus, ii. 40.
Introduced into different countries,
ii. 49.
Oaks, objects of adoration among the
German nations, i. 241.
Obelisks, Egyptian, prodigious height
of, i. 76.
Observatories first introduced into
Europe by the Arabs, ii. 42.
Ocean, its size, ii. 371.
Octave, the grand standard of harmo-
nical relation among the Pytha-
goreans, i. 116.
Oliva, John Peter, his comment on
the Apocalypse, ii. 78.
Olympian deities, their nature, i. 50.
Omar, Khalif, takes Jerusalem, i.
335.
His behaviour contrasted with that
of the Crusaders, ii. 22.
Opinion and Reason, Parmenides's work
on, i. 121.
Optics. discoveries in, ii. 379.
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