Abecedarium naturæ, primumque in operibus

Divinis tirocinium, i. 461, 565, 566;
ii. 15, 85-88.

naturarum abstractarum, ii. 17.

Abel, an image of the contemplative state, iii.
297.

pastor, imago vitæ contemplativæ, i. 465.
Aber-Barry, holes in cliff at, where subterra-
nean winds are heard, v. 161.
juxta Sabrinam, ii. 40.

Abietis lignum minime densum, ii. 248, 249.
Abilities, regulation of learning according to
the, iii. 415.

Abridgements of learning condemned, iv. 494.
Abstracta et concreta, i. 551.
Academiæ: curriculum studiorum diligenter ob-

servandum, interdum mutandum, i. 490.
odium novitatis injuria scientiæ, iii. 597.
Acatalepsia, i. 219; iv. 111.

of the Platonists, iv. 69, 75.
Academicorum, iii. 580, 607.
an opinio sincere habita, i. 622.
desperatio ejus, i. 151.

Acceleration, ii. 442-448.

of falling bodies, i. 625.

of the clarification of liquors, i, 442–446.
See Clarification.

of putrefaction, ii. 451-453. See Putre-
faction.

of birth, two causes of, ii. 457, 458.

early ripening of the embryo, ii. 457.
weakness of the mother's body, ib.
child born at seven months more
healthy than at eight, why, ib.
of growth and stature, three causes of,
ii. 458, 459.

plenty of nourishment, ii. 458.
nourishment of an opening nature, ib.
excitement of the natural heat, ib.

of germination. See Germination.
of maturation, ii. 445-450, 550.

VOL. V.

Accent of sentences, iv. 442, 444.

Accident, the originator of all the noblest dis-
coveries, iv. 171.

Accidents of words, iii. 401.

Accumulation of laws, how to remedy, v. 98
-101.

Aceti aspersione turbinem compesci, ii. 50.
Acosta, his History of the Indies quoted by
Bacon, ii. 4, 32, 40.

his theory of tides, iii. 45, 46.

his statements as to the winds in the
South Sea, whether correct, v. 152.
on climate of Peru, v. 161.

Acoustics. See Sound.

Acroamatic method of discourse, iv. 450.
Acting, art of, used in education, iii. 417.
Actio cum contemplatione conjuncta, iii. 462,

463.

Advancement of Learning-continued.

date of, i. 415.

original design of, i. 415, 416, 418.
Advancement of fortune, knowledge relating

to, deficient, iii. 455.

the doctrine of, v. 57, 78.

Ægyptii brutorum effigies in templis cur posue-
runt, iii. 608.

Enigmatica dicendi methodus, i. 665.
Æoli regnum, ii. 39.

Aer corpora naturalia multum turbat, i. 350.
exclusio ejus, i. 350—352.

aditus ejus, cur prohibendus, i. 351.
exclusio ambientis ad diuturnitatem

dupliciter innuit, ii. 175, 220.
excluditur duobus modis, ii. 175—
180.

per clausuram meatuum, ii. 176.
per oppletionem meatuum, ib.
salubritas ejus res occulta, ii. 150, 190.
experimentum salubritatis, ii. 150.
æqualitas magis quam puritas spec-
tanda, ib.

mutatio ejus in peregrinando bona,
ib.

tanquam res indigens omnia avide arripit,
ii. 217.

per calorem dilatatur simpliciter, ii. 267,
268.

humiditatem terræ deprædatur et in se
vertit, ii. 281.

rarefaction is quantæ capax, ii. 283.
experimentum vitrei ovi, ib.

dilatatus figi potest ut se restituere non
laboret, ii. 290.

ipse in aquam in regionibus supernis ver-
titur, ii. 293.

versio aeris in aquam optativa, ii. 604.
spatio notabili contrahi potest, iii. 16.
Anaximenes pro principio rerum posuit,
iii. 88, 89.

opera ejus in Universitate rerum, ib.
chaos secundum, iii. 89.

impulsu densatus frigidior, iii. 701.
in sonorum generatione densatus, ib.
in globo plumbeo compressus, iii. 703.
in vasa clausa, ib.

per respirationem receptus, iii. 704. See
Air.

Esculapius, god of healing, iv. 379, 381.

and Circe, fable of, iii. 371.

Esop, fable of the Frogs and the Well, iv.
463.

of the Fox and Cat, iv. 471.

fabula de Vulpe et Fele, i. 687.
Etas instar ignis lambentis, ii. 304.

de decursu ætatis, historia conscribenda,
i. 408.

Eternitas materiæ, iii. 110.

terræ, iii. 749, 750.

ex rationibus motus non probanda, iii. 750.
motus cœli circularis argumentum nullum,
iii. 754.

ethnicâ jactantiâ, cœlo soli attributa, iii.

756.

scripturis sacris, terræ et cœlo ex æquo, ib.

Ether purum et immutabile, iii. 751.
historia ejus, iii. 733.

Ethera sive spatia coli interstellaria, iii.
739.

an unus perpetuus fluor, iii. 744.
Ethiopia, ii. 473.

Aetites, or eagle stone, ii. 401.

Affability, Cicero's commendation of, iii. 446.
Affectation, unseemliness of, iii. 446.

antitheses for and against, iv. 486.

Affections controlled by eloquence, iii. 410.
inquiry touching the, iii. 437.

poets and historians, the best doctors of
the, iii. 438.

their relation to reason, iv. 457.

and perturbations of the mind, v. 23.

neglected by Aristotle in his Ethics, sb.
Affectus intuentur præcipue bonum in præ-
sentiâ, i. 673.

loco morborum animi sunt, i. 735.
Affinitates chymicæ, i. 362.

Affinity, chemical, iv. 245.

"Africa semper aliquid monstri parit," why,

ii. 492.

Agaric, a purge, ii. 514, 537, 555.

Age, its course, a history thereof proposed, iv.

268.

old, the retarding of, iv. 368.

by itself is only a stage or measure of
motion, v. 382.
definition of, ib.

effects of, v. 382, 383.

like a lambent fire, v. 399.

differences between age and youth, v. 318
-320.

in body, v. 318, 319.

in mind, v. 319, 320.

Agesilaus de Pharnabazo, i. 445.
Agilitas duas partes habet, i. 602.

Agility has two parts, strength and swiftness,

Air, transmutation of, into water-continued.
artificial conversion of air into water,
ib.

a desideratum, v. 399.

turned into water in the upper re-
gions, v. 388.

condensing of, whether the cause of in-
crease of weight in growing plants,
ii. 350, 351.

in onions, ii. 350.

great sempervive, ii. 350, 351.
lilies, ii. 350.

sprouts from stumps of trees, ib.
test by weighing, ib.

commixture of air and flame, and

force resulting, ii. 351, 352.
explosive bodies, ii. 351.

vital spirits of living creatures, ii. 352.
temperature of, cooled by contact with
water, without imbibing moisture,
ii. 627.

on bright nights colder than on
cloudy, ii. 628.

close, warmer than open, ib.

middle region of, cold, iii. 645.
when moved in colder, ii. 649.
in things fibrous is warm, ib.
congealing of, experiment proposed,
ii. 462.

salubrity of, fresh and healthful must be

selected for habitation, ii. 592, 605.
how to test salubrity of, ii. 592, 605.
necessity of having healthful indoors,
ii. 651.

salubrity of, how known, v. 297.
at what hours best taken, ib.
healthy from what quarters, ib.
poisoned by effluvia, ii. 646.
concussion of the, ii. 395, 396.
exclusion of, disturbance in bodies caused
by its operation, iv. 233.

means of exclusion, iv. 234.
advantage of its exclusion, ib.
tends to prolong life, v. 283, 329.
excluded in two ways, v. 284.

1. by closing the pores.

2. by filling them up.

a needy thing, seizing everything with

avidity, v. 325.

dilation of, dilated simply by heat, v.

Alchemists, varieties of, ii. 448, 620.
useful inventions of, iv. 84.

Alchemy, iii. 289, 362.
Alchymia, i. 456.

Alchymistæ, utilia multa invenerunt, i. 193.
Alegant, ii. 363.

Alexander the Great, sweetness of his skin, ii.
341.

discovery of his body by Augustus Cæsar,
ii. 590.

an example of learning and military ex-
cellence, iii. 269, 307.

his education, iii. 308.

his estimation of learning, ib.

his excellent use of metaphor, iii. 310.
his speech concerning Diogenes, iii. 308.
his remarkable sayings, iii. 308, 309,
310.

his reprehension and use of logic, iii.
309.

his mode of warfare, iv. 328.

Alexander Magnus, Aristotelis discipulus, i.

Alexander Borgia, de expeditione Gallorum
Neapolitanâ, i. 578.

of the French at Naples, iv. 371.
Aliment, iii. 485.

change of necessary, when the effect has
been weakened by custom, ii. 369.
necessary to the human body, how often,
v. 314.

rapid consumption of, by the living
spirit, ib.

proportion of secretions to, ib.
causes of atrophy, v. 315.

of the stars, v. 540.

Alimentatio per exterius, ii. 222.

historia alimentationis conscribenda, i.
408.

Alimentation by separation, i. 339.

promoted in four ways, iv. 392, 393.
of plants and of animals, difference noted
by Aristotle, v. 226.

the source of repair in living bodies,
v. 220.

nourishments, by what rules to be selected,

v. 241, 242.

orifices of reception, v. 242.

modes of assimilation, ib.

degrees of nourishment, v. 243.

whether it can be taken by other ways
than through the stomach, v. 243, 331.

Allnight, ii. 465.

Alloys of the precious metals, ii. 599.

Alpetragius, his Theorica Planetarum, iii.
721.

Alphabet of the universe, i. 39.

of nature, iii. 243; v. 133, 208-211.
rule and construction of it, 210, 211.
of abstract natures, v. 135.

of cypher proposed, iv. 445, 446.
See Abecedarium.

Altar on which water always extinguished
the sacrifice, v. 362.

Altare quo igne accenso statim aqua descende-
bat, ii. 267.

ab Herone descriptum, iii. 711.
Alterations of matter, ii. 613, 614.
"alteratio major" what, 614.
Altitudo ventorum, ii, 51.

Amber furthers venereous appetite, ii. 650.
an opiate producing longevity, v. 272.
flies preserved in, how, v. 320.
Ambergrise, medicinal use of, v. 264.
Ambiguity of speech, caution against, iii.
394.

Ambition, three grades of, iv. 114.

the restlessness of, v. 13.

Ambitionis tria genera, i. 222; iii. 611.
Ambra Grisia medicina, ii. 156.

America, cause of the backwardness of their
civilisation, iii. 143.

Amicitia, antitheta de, i. 703.

qualis comparanda, i. 776.

Amomum, ii. 650.

Amor, antitheta de eo, i. 702.

ex genere gaudii est, ii. 172.

Amortised, iii. 502.

Ampère, On the Philosophy of Science, i. 663.
Amplification, the art of, iv. 470.

Anabaptistarum hæresis, i. 197.
Anabaptists, heresy of, iii. 422 ; v. 9.
Anagogical expositions of Scripture, iii. 485.
Anagrams, in which Discoveries were concealed
in the Middle Ages, i. 86.

Analogies, not differences, the object of re-
search, iv. 166.

Analytica, i. 641.

Analytics, iii. 393; iv. 429.

Anatomia, a medicis nimis neglecta, i. 592,

593.

brutorum vivorum permissa, 594.

corporum organicorum, i. 233.

Anatomy, invention of preparations in, i. 594.
of organic bodies, iv. 124, 385, 386.
simple, well treated of; comparative
wanting, iv. 385.

interior parts of men differ from one
another as much as their exterior, ib.

of the living subject, how far justifiable,
iv. 386.

reproved by Celsus, iii. 374.

deficiency in, iii. 374.
comparative, ib.

Anaxarchi patientia, i. 581.

Anaxarchus hit out his tongue under torture,
iv. 374.

Anaximenes aëra principium rerum posuit,

iii. 88.

quamobrem, iii. 88, 89.

selected air as the one principle of things,
v. 470.

his reasons, ib.

Anchoretæ longævi, ii. 176.

Anchorites, longevity of, v. 283.

Ancient history, deficiencies in, iii. 335.
Ancients, their use of parables, aphorisms, and
fables, iii. 453.

Angeli et spiritus, natura eorum, i. 544—
547.

ordines angelorum, i. 464.

Angels, hierarchy and nature of, i. 464, 546 ;
iii. 296; iv. 342.

regarded by the Schoolmen as forms not
immersed in matter, iii. 85.

adoration of, forbidden, iii. 350.

inquiry into their nature not interdicted,
iii. 350.

cause of their fall, v. 29.

Anger of princes, how to avoid, v. 46.

Anglia in bello semper Galliæ superior, quare,
i. 796.

Anhelitus hominum magis fœtet flante austro,
ii. 36.

Anima humana, ejus duæ sunt partes, i. 604.
1. rationalis, quæ divina, a spiraculo
Dei, ib.

2. irrationalis, quæ communis cum brutis,
facta per verbum "producat
matricibus elementorum, sensibilis,
sive producta, i. 604–607.

cujus doctrinæ duæ partes:

a. De motu voluntario, i. 609,
610.

b. De sensu et sensibili; cujus
desiderata, i. 610–613.

aut naturalis; vel nativa, vel per
influxum, i. 607, 608.

2. De fascinatione, i. 608, 609.
doctrina circa usum et objecta facultatum
duas habet partes, i. 614.

1. Logica, i. 614-646. See Logica.
2. Ethica, i. 713-743. See Ethica.

cultura animi, i. 731–742.
bonum animi cum bono corporis compara-
tum, i. 743, 744.

rationalis in homine, nec ex traduce est,
nec reparatur, nec interit, ii. 206.
animam esse harmoniam, i. 461.
Animalia et plantas, discrimen inter, quoad
renovationem ab Aristotele notatum, ii.
114.

longinquitas vitæ eorum, ii. 121–130.
ex putrefactione, i. 316.

Animals, their shape attributed to the folds of
the womb, ii. 242; i. 358.

Animus humanus instar speculi totius mundi
capax, i. 434.

Annals, iv. 309.

Annihilation belongs to Omnipotence, ii.
339.

impossibility of, ii. 383, 384.

in nature is none, v. 320.

the work of Omnipotence, v. 427.
how to be effected, ib.

Annotations of approved authors required, iv.
494.

Ants, grains of corn carried by them, are in
fact the nymphæ, i. 619.

very hurtful to the garden, v. 57.
Antarctic hemisphere, v. 536.

Antarcticum hemisphærium, iii. 760.
Ant-hill of Arts, iv. 438.
Anthropomorphia, i. 644.

Anthropomorphites, heresy of, iii. 241, 396;
iv. 432.

Anthropophagi, ii. 131.

Anti-Christ, Aristotle likened to, iv. 345.
Antichristi signum, suo nomine venire, i.
549.

Antichristus, Aristoteles, iii. 567.
Anticipatio mentis, i. 154.

naturæ, i. 161.

Anticipation, a swimming, ii. 239.
the weakness of, ib.

of the mind, iv. 42.

of time, a miracle, v. 491.

anticipations, rejection of, iii. 244-246.
all are deflexions by accident, iii. 251.
of nature, iv. 51, 52.

Antinomies in Athenian law, v. 99.

Antiochia, wholesome air of, why, ii. 651.
Antipatrum, dictum Alexandri circa, i. 474.
Antiperistasis, doctrine of, i. 542.

contraction of bodies by, v. 392, 393.
contractiones corporum per, ii. 297,
298.

Antiquitas et novitas temporis filiæ, i. 458.
immodicum ejus studium, ib.
sæculi, juventus mundi, ib.

mundi ipsius senium, iii. 613.

instar famæ, caput inter nubila condit, iii.
574.

Antiquities, or remnants of histories, iv.
303.

Antiquity, like Fame, muffles her head and
tells tales, iii. 225.

ignorance prevalent in early ages, ib.
too much importance attached to, iii.
290.

what reverence due to, iii. 291.

the present time the true antiquity of the
world, iv. 82.

Antithetorum exempla, i. 689-706; iii. 413.
Antoninus, i. 472.

Antoninus Pius, iii. 305.

a splitter of cummin, iv. 453.
Antrum Epimenidis, ii. 176.

vita in antris longæva, ib.

Ape, his heart a charm for audacity, ii. 665.
Aperients, iii. 831, 832. See Bracelets.
Apertura aquæ, olei, et aliorum liquorum, ii.
268, 269.

Aphorisms, knowledge anciently delivered in,
why, iii. 498.

excellence of, iii. 405.

of Solomon, examples of, iii. 448-452;
v. 36-56.

valuable observations expressed by the
ancients in, iii. 453.

well used by ancient discoverers, iv. 85.
on the composition of the Primary His-
tory, iv. 253-263.

delivery of knowledge in, iv. 450.
Aphorismi, i. 665, 666.

Apud antiquos, i. 194.

laudati, iii. 593, 594.

de conficiendâ Historiâ Primâ, i. 395—
403.

scientia quamdiu aphorismis comprehensa
crescere potest, i. 460.

de justitiâ universali, i. 803-827.

Apis ratio, media via philosophandi, iii. 583,
616.

Apogeum et Perigaum planetarum, iii. 742,
747, 764. See Planets.

Apollo, god of healing, iv. 379.

Apollonius of Tyana, said that the tides were

caused by the respiration of the spiritus
mundi, ii. 640; v. 406.

his grandfather, error respecting his age,
ii. 96.

doctrina ejus, fluxum et refluxum maris
esse respirationes terræ, iii. 50.

Apoplexy, Frascatorius's remedy for, ii.
268; v. 362.

Apostoli, cur indocti, i. 468.