Kamtz, isobarometric lines, 315; doubts on the greater dryness of mountain
air, 334.
Kant, Emmanuel, "on the theory and structure of the heavens," 50, 65;
earthquake at Lisbon, 210.
Kelihau on the ancient sea-line of the coast of Spitzbergen, 296.
Kepler on the distances of stars, 88; on the density of the planets, 93; law
of progression, 95; on the number of comets, 99; shooting stars, 113; on the
obscuration of the sun's disk, 132; on the radiations of heat from the fixed
stars, 136; on a solar atmosphere, 139.
Kloden, shooting stars, 119, 124.
Knowledge, superficial, evils of, 43.
Krug of Nidda, temperature of the Geyser and the Strokr intermittent
fountains, 222.
Krusenstern, Admiral, on the train of a fire-ball, 114.
Kuopho, a Chinese physicist on the attraction of the magnet, and of amber,
168.
Kupffer, magnetic stations in Northern Asia, 191.
Lamanon, 187.
Lambert, suggestion that the direction of the wind be compared with the
height of the barometer, alterations of temperature, humidity, etc., 315.
Lamont, mass of Uranus, 93; satellites of Saturn, 96.
Language and thought, their mutual alliance, 56; author's praise of his
native language, 56.
Languages, importance of their study, 357, 359.
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