re happens to take effect on a visible part of the dark
portion.

[32] Address to Birmingham Midland Institute, "A Glimpse through the
Corridors of Time."

INDEX

INDEX

A

Abbott, T.K., on tides, 369

Adams, John Couch, 193, 217, 302, 323, 324, 325, 327, 329, 330, 352, 385

Airy, Sir George, 193, 244, 302, 323, 324, 327, 367

Anaxagoras, 15

Appian, 218

Arabs, the, form a link between the old and new science, 9

Archimedes, 7, 8, 84, 87, 144, 177

Aristarchus, 34

Aristotle, 66, 69, 88, 94, 99, 167.
He taught that the earth was a sphere, 16;
his theories did not allow of the earth's motion, 34;
he was regarded as inspired, 89

B

Bacon, Francis, 142, 143, 144, 145.
His _Novum Organum_, 141

Bacon, Roger, 96, 139, 140.
The herald of the dawn of science, 9

Brahe, George, uncle of Tycho Brahe, 39

Brahe, Steno, brother of Tycho Brahe, 39

Brahe, Tycho, 37, 39, 40, 44, 45, 49, 51, 53, 54, 55, 58, 63, 64, 65, 66,
68, 71, 72, 74, 75, 77, 78, 86, 94, 117, 137, 155, 165, 166, 200, 244,
281, 288.
He tried to adopt the main features of the Copernican theory without
admitting the motion of the earth, 37;
he was a poor theorist but a great observer, 38;
his medicine, 44;
his personal history, 39, _seq._;
his observatory, Uraniburg, 47;
his greatest invention, 50, note;
his maniac Lep, 52;
his kindness to Kepler, 63

Ball, Sir R., 391, 394;
his _Story of the Heavens_, 377

Barrow, Dr., 165, 187

Bessel, 288, 310, 311, 313, 315, 316, 318, 323

Biela, 345, 346, 347

Bode's Law, 60, 296, 298, 299, 326

Boyle, 139, 188

Bradley, Prof. James, 233, 246, 247, 249, 252, 253, 308, 319

Bremiker, 328, 329

Brewster, on Kepler, 78

Brinkley, 308

Bruno, Giordano, 108, 127

C

Castelli, 112, 133

Cayley, Prof., 385

Challis, Prof., 328, 329

Clairut, 193, 216, 217, 219, 234, 341

Clark, Alvan and Sons, 316

Columbus, 9, 144

Copernicus, 7, 10, _seq._, 14, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38,
62, 66, 68, 70, 78, 93, 95, 100, 108, 111, 121, 122, 137, 155, 166, 223,
234, 247, 307;
his _De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium_, 11, 75, 138;
he _proved_ that the earth went round the sun, 13;
the influence of his theory on the Church, 13, _seq._;
his life-work summarised, 30;
his Life by Mr. E.J.C. Morton, 31

Copernican tables, 40;
Copernican theory, 59, 60, 125, 144, 167

Copernik, Nicolas; see Copernicus

Cornu, 238