Index of Technical Terms

Aberration, a. .

Absolute and relative, a. .

Accelerating force, a. .

Achromatism, b. .

Acid, b. .

Acoustics, b. .

Acronycal rising and setting, a. .

Action and reaction, a. .

Acuation, b. .

Acumination, b. .

Acute harmonics, b. .

Ætiology, b. .

Affinity (in Chemistry), b. .

Affinity (in Natural History), b. .

Agitation, Centre of, a. .

Alidad, a. .

Alineations, a. , .

Alkali, b. .

Almacantars, a. .

Almagest, a. .

Almanac, a. .

Alphonsine tables, a. .

Alternation (of formations), b. .

Amphoteric silicides, b. .

Analogy (in Natural History), b. .

Analysis (chemical), b. .

Analysis (polar, of light), b. .

Angle of cleavage, b. .

Angle of incidence, b. .

Angle of reflection, b. .

Animal electricity, b. .

Anïon, b. .

Annus, a. .

Anode, b. .

Anomaly, a. , .

Antarctic circle, a. .

Antichthon, a. .

Anticlinal line, b. .

Antipodes, a. .

Apogee, a. .

Apotelesmatic astrology, a. .

Apothecæ, b. .

Appropriate ideas, a. .

Arctic circle, a. .

Armed magnets, b. .

Armil, a. .

Art and science, a. .

Articulata, b. .

Artificial magnets, b. .

Ascendant, a. .

Astrolabe, a. .

Atmology, b. , .

Atom, a. .

Atomic theory, b. .

Axes of symmetry (of crystals), b. .

Axis (of a mountain chain), b. .

Azimuth, a. .

Azot, b. .

Ballistics, a. .

Bases (of salts), b.264.

Basset (of strata), b. .

Beats, b. .

Calippic period, a. .

Caloric, b. .

Canicular period, a. .

Canon, a. .

Capillary action, a. .

Carbonic acid gas, b.

Carolinian tables, a. .

Catasterisms, a. .

Categories, a. .

Cathïon, b. .

Cathode, b. .

Catïon, b. .

Causes, Material, formal, efficient, final, a. .

Centrifugal force, a. .

Cerebral system, b. .

Chemical attraction, b. .

Chyle, b. .

Chyme, b. .

Circles of the sphere, a. .

Circular polarization, b. , .

Circular progression (in Natural History), b. .

Civil year, a. .

Climate, b. .

Coexistent vibrations, a. .

Colures, a. .

Conditions of existence (of animals), b. , .

Conducibility, b. .

Conductibility, b. .

Conduction, b. .

Conductivity, b. .

Conductors, b. .

Conical refraction, b. .

Conservation of areas, a. .

Consistence (in Thermotics), b. .

Constellations, a. .

Constituent temperature, b. .

Contact-theory of the Voltaic pile, b. .

Cor (of plants), b. .

Cosmical rising and setting, a. .

Cotidal lines, a. .

Craters of elevation, b. .

Dæmon, a. .

D’Alembert’s principle, a. .

Day, a. .

Decussation of nerves, b. .

Deduction, a. .

Deferent, a. .

Definite proportions (in Chemistry), b. .

Delta, b. .

Dephlogisticated air, b. .

Depolarization, b. .

Depolarization of heat, b. .

Depolarizing axes, b. .

Descriptive phrase (in Botany), b. .

Dew, b. .

Dichotomized, a. .

Diffraction, b. .

Dimorphism, b. .

Dioptra, a. .

Dipolarization, b. , .

Direct motion of planets, a. .

Discontinuous functions, b. .

Dispensatoria, b. .

Dispersion (of light), b. .

Doctrine of the sphere, a. .

Dogmatic school (of medicine), b. .

Double refraction, b. .

Eccentric, a. .

Echineis, a. .

Eclipses, a. .

Effective forces, a. .

Elective attraction, b. .

Electrical current, b. .

Electricity, b. .

Electrics, b. .

Electrical tension, b. .

Electro-dynamical, b. .

Electrodes, b. .

Electrolytes, b. .

Electro-magnetism, b. .

Elements (chemical), b. .

Elliptical polarization, b. , .

Empiric school (of medicine), b. .

Empyrean, a. .

Enneads, a. .

Entelechy, a. .

Eocene, b. .

Epicycles, a. ,

Epochs, a. .

Equant, a. .

Equation of time, a. .

Equator, a. .

Equinoctial points, a. .

Escarpment, b. .

Evection, a. , .

Exchanges of heat, Theory of, b. .

Facts and ideas, a. .

Faults (in strata), b. .

Final causes, b. , .

Finite intervals (hypothesis of), b. .

First law of motion, a. .

Fits of easy transmission, b. , .

Fixed air, b. .

Fixity of the stars, a. .

Formal optics, b. .

Franklinism, b. .

Fresnel’s rhomb, b. .

Fringes of shadows, b. , .

Fuga vacui, a. .

Full months, a. .

Function (in Physiology), b. .

Galvanism, b. .

Galvanometer, b. .

Ganglionic system, b. .

Ganglions, b. .

Generalization, a. .

Geocentric theory, a. .

Gnomon, a. .

Gnomonic, a. .

Golden number, a. .

Grave harmonics, b. .

Gravitate, a. .

Habitations (of plants), b. .

Hæcceity, a. .

Hakemite tables, a. .

Halogenes, b. .

Haloide, b. .

Harmonics, Acute, b. .

Harmonics, Grave, b. .

Heat, b. .

Heat, Latent, b. .

Heccædecaëteris, a. .

Height of a homogeneous atmosphere, b. .

Heliacal rising and setting, a. .

Heliocentric theory, a. .

Hemisphere of Berosus, a. .

Hollow months, a. .

Homoiomeria, a. .

Horizon, a. .

Horoscope, a. .

Horror of a vacuum, a. .

Houses (in Astrology), a. .

Hydracids, b. .

Hygrometer, b. .

Hygrometry, b. .

Hypostatical principles, b. .

Iatro-chemists, b. .

Ideas of the Platonists, a. .

Ilchanic tables, a. .

Impressed forces, a. .

Inclined plane, a. .

Induction (electric), b. .

Induction (logical), a. .

Inductive, a. .

Inductive, charts, a. .

Inductive, epochs, a. .

Inflammable air, b. .

Influences, a. .

Intercalation, a. .

Interferences, b. , .

Ionic school, a. .

Isomorphism, b. .

Isothermal lines, b. , .

Italic school, a. .

Joints (in rocks), b. .

Judicial astrology, a. .

Julian calendar, a. .

Lacteals, b. .

Latent heat, b. .

Laws of motion, first, a. .

Laws of motion, second, a. .

Laws of motion, third, a. .

Leap year, a. .

Leyden phial, b. .

Librations (of planets), a. .

Libration of Jupiter’s Satellites, a. .

Limb of an instrument, a. .

Longitudinal vibrations, b. .

Lunisolar year, a. .

Lymphatics, b. .

Magnetic elements, b. .

Magnetic equator, b. .

Magnetism, b. .

Magneto-electric induction, b. .

Matter and form, a. .

Mean temperature, b. .

Mechanical mixture of gases, b. .

Mechanico-chemical sciences, b. .

Meiocene, b. .

Meridian line, a. .

Metals, b. , .

Meteorology, b. .

Meteors, a. .

Methodic school (of medicine), b. .

Metonic cycle, a. .

Mineral alkali, b. .

Mineralogical axis, b. .

Minutes, a. .

Miocene, b. .

Mollusca, b. .

Moment of inertia, a. .

Momentum, a. , .

Moon’s libration, a. .

Morphology, b. , .

Movable polarization, b. .

Multiple proportions (in Chemistry), b. .

Music of the spheres, a. .

Mysticism, a. , .

Nadir, a. .

Nebular hypothesis, b. .

Neoplatonists, a. .

Neutral axes, b. .

Neutralization (in Chemistry), b. .

Newton’s rings, b. , .

Newton’s scale of color, b. .

Nitrous air, b. .

Nomenclature, b. .

Nominalists, a. .

Non-electrics, b. .

Numbers of the Pythagoreans, a. , .

Nutation, a. .

Nycthemer, a. .

Octaëteris, a. .

Octants, a. .

Oolite, b. .

Optics, b. , &c.

Organical sciences, b. .

Organic molecules, b. .

Organization, b. .

Oscillation, Centre of, a. .

Outcrop (of strata), b. .

Oxide, b. .

Oxyd, b. .

Oxygen, b. .

Palæontology, b. .

Palætiological sciences, b. .

Parallactic instrument, a. .

Parallax, a. .

Percussion, Centre of, a. .

Perfectihabia, a. .

Perigee, a. .

Perijove, a. .

Periodical colors, b. .

Phases of the moon, a. .

Philolaic tables, a. .

Phlogisticated air, b. .

Phlogiston, b. .

Phthongometer, b. .

Physical optics, b. .

Piston, a. .

Plagihedral faces, b. .

Plane of maximum areas, b. .

Pleiocene, b. .

Plesiomorphous, b. .

Plumb line, a. .

Pneumatic trough, b. .

Poikilite, b. .

Polar decompositions, b. .

Polarization, b. , .

Polarization, Circular, b. , .

Polarization, Elliptical, b. , .

Polarization, Movable, b. .

Polarization, Plane, b. .

Polarization of heat, b. .

Poles (voltaic), b. .

Poles of maximum cold, b. .

Potential levers, a. .

Power and act, a. .

Precession of the equinoxes, a. .

Predicables, a. .

Predicaments, a. .

Preludes of epochs, a. .

Primary rocks, b. .

Primitive rocks, b. .

Primum calidum, a. .

Principal plane (of a rhomb), b. .

Principle of least action, a. .

Prosthapheresis, a. .

Provinces (of plants and animals), b. .

Prutenic tables, a. .

Pulses, b. .

Pyrites, b. .

Quadrant, a.

Quadrivium, a. .

Quiddity, a. .

Quinary division (in Natural History), b. .

Quintessence, a. .

Radiata, b. .

Radiation, b. .

Rays, b. .

Realists, a. .

Refraction, b. .

Refraction of heat, b. .

Remora, a. .

Resinous electricity, b. .

Rete mirabile, b. .

Retrograde motion of planets, a. .

Roman calendar, a. .

Rotatory vibrations, b. .

Rudolphine tables, a. , .

Saros, a. .

Scholastic philosophy, a. .

School philosophy, a. .

Science, a. .

Secondary rocks, b. .

Secondary mechanical sciences, b. .

Second law of motion, a. .

Seconds, a. .

Secular inequalities, a. .

Segregation, b. .

Seminal contagion, b. .

Seminal proportions, a. .

Sequels of epochs, a. .

Silicides, b. .

Silurian rocks, b. .

Simples, b. .

Sine, a. .

Solar heat, b. .

Solstitial points, a. .

Solution of water in air, b. .

Sothic period, a. .

Spagiric art, b. .

Specific heat, b. .

Sphere, a. .

Spontaneous generation, b. .

Statical electricity, b. .

Stationary periods, a. .

Stationary planets, a. .

Stations (of plants), b. .

Sympathetic sounds, b. .

Systematic Botany, b. .

Systematic Zoology, b. .

Systems of crystallization, b. .

Tables, Solar, (of Ptolemy), a. .

Tables, Hakemite, a. .

Tables, Toletan, a. .

Tables, Ilchanic, a. .

Tables, Alphonsine, a. .

Tables, Prutenic, a. .

Tables, Rudolphine, a. .

Tables, Perpetual (of Lansberg), a. .

Tables, Philolaic, a. .

Tables, Carolinian, a. .

Tangential vibrations, b. .

Tautochronous curves, a. .

Technical terms, b. .

Temperament, b. .

Temperature, b. .

Terminology, b. .

Tertiary rocks, b. .

Tetractys, a. .

Theory of analogues, b. .

Thermomultiplier, b. .

Thermotics, b. .

Thick plates. Colors of, b. .

Thin plates. Colors of, b. .

Third law of motion, a. .

Three principles (in Chemistry), b. .

Toletan tables, a. .

Transition rocks, b. .

Transverse vibrations, b. , , .

Travertin, b. .

Trepidation of the fixed stars, a. .

Trigonometry, a. .

Trivial names, b. .

Trivium, a. .

Tropics, a. .

Truncation (of crystals), b. .

Type (in Comparative Anatomy), b. .

Uniform force, a. .

Unity of Composition (in Comparative Anatomy), b. .

Unity of plan (in Comparative Anatomy), b. .

Variation of the moon, a. , .

Vegetable alkali, b. .

Vertebrata, b. .

Vibrations, b. .

Vicarious elements, b. .

Vicarious solicitations, a. .

Virtual velocities, a. .

Vitreous electricity, b. .

Volatile alkali, b. .

Volta-electrometer, b. .

Voltaic electricity, b. .

Voltaic pile, b. .

Volumes, Theory of, b. .

Voluntary, violent, and natural motion, a. .

Vortices, a. .

Week, a. .

Year, a. .

Zenith, a. .

Zodiac, a. .

Zones, a. .

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