Analytical Society (in Cambridge), 283. Anaximander, 18. Anaximenes, 18. Angeli, 185. Anger, 375. Appel, 346. Arbogaste, 260. Archimedes, 40–45; ref. to, 2, 35, 37, 39, 45, 47, 49, 50, 54, 61, 65, 73, 78, 90, 105, 108, 140, 144, 169, 173, 182. Areas, conservation of, 253. Arenarius, 65. Arithmetic: Pythagoreans, 20, 67–70; Platonists, 29; Euclid, 38, 70; Greek, 63–77; Hindoo, 90–92; Arabic, 106; Middle Ages, 119, 122, 123, 126, 130, 133, 134; Renaissance, 150, 151, 158–161. See Numbers, Notation. Arithmetical triangle, 196. Armemante, 313. Arneth, X. Aronhold, 327. Assumption, tentative, 75, 92. See Regula falsa. Astrology, 155.
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Astronomy: Babylonian, 8; Egyptian, 10; Greek, 18, 24, 32, 39, 51, 56; Hindoo, 86; Arabic, 100, 101, 105, 115; Middle Ages, 127; Newton, 212–216; more recent researches, 253, 257, 262, 271–274, 366, 373–377. See Mechanics. Athenæus, 32. Atomic theory, 382. Attalus, 46. Attraction, 277. See Gravitation, Ellipsoid. August, 296. Bachet de Méziriac. See Méziriac. Bacon, R., 134. Baker, Th., 113. Ball, Sir R. S., 378. Ballistic curve, 279. Barbier, 341. Battaglini, 306. Bauer, XII. Baumgart, XI. Bayes, 340. Beaumont, XI. Beaune, De. See De Beaune. Bede, the Venerable, 118. Beer, 392. Beha Eddin, 114. Ben Junus, 115. Berkeley, 236. Bernelinus, 122. Bernoulli, Nicolaus (born 1695), 238.
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