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Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859

"COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1"


Schayer, microscopic organisms in the ocean, 342, 343.
Scheerer on the identity of eleolite and nepheline, 253.
Schelling on nature, 55; quotation from his Giordino Bruino, 77.
Scheuchzner's fossil salamander, conjectured to be an antediluvian man, 274.
Schiller, quotation from, 36.
Schnurrer on the obscuration of the sun's disk, 133.
Schouten, Cornelius, in 1616 found the declination null in the Pacific, 182.
Schouw, distribution of the quantity of rain in Central Europe, 333.
Schrieber on the fragmentary character of meteoric stones, 117.
Scientific researches, their frequent result, 50; scientific knowledge a
requirement of the present age, 53, 54; scientific terms, their vagueness
and misapplication, 58, 68.
Scina, Abbate, earthquakes unconnected with the state of the weather, 206,
207.
Scoresby, rarity of electric explosions in high northern regions, 337.
Sea. See Ocean.
Seismometer, the, 205.
Seleucus of Erythrea, his astronomical studies, 65.
Seneca, noticed the direction of the tails of comets, 102; his views on the
nature and paths of comets, 103, 104; omens drawn from their sudden
appearance, 111; the germs of later observations on earthquakes found in his
writings, 207; problematical extinction and sinking of Mount Aetna, 227, 240.


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