Thesaurus antiquitat. Romanarum, 12. Versuch einer hist. Schilderung von

Transactions of the Society for the en- Voigts Magazin für Naturkunde, 249

Watson's Chemical essays, 28. 42. 242. | YARRANTON's England's Improve-

INDEX

TO THE MOST REMARKABLE THINGS MENTIONED IN THE

FOURTH VOLUME.

A.

ABZUG, and Abstrich, meaning of the words, 13

Acies, name given to steel, 240

Acta populi Romani, or Acta diurna, a kind of newspapers,

594

Adamas at first denoted steel, 237

Eolus, the first person who made navigators acquainted
with the winds, 147

Air-chamber, when first applied to the fire-engine, 91

Alabandicus, meaning of the word, 60

Aliantum, a plant given to cocks to inspire them with courage,

511

Anaxurides of the Persians were breeches, 199

Androgeos, temple of, at Rome, 154

Andronicus Cyrrhestes, tower built by him at Athens, 151

Anemodulium, or Anemoderium, at Constantinople, 155

Ants which dug up gold, fable of the ancients concerning them
explained, 251

Aqua Lucii, 598.

Aqua regia, when discovered, 579

Aquafortis, first intelligible account of, 575

Argentarium, a mixture of tin and lead, 28

Argonautic expedition, supposed by Vossius to have been
a commercial expedition, like the voyages of the English to
Nootka Sound, 200

Army surgeons, when established, 490-496

Arquebuse, derivation of the word, 605, 606

Assaying in the wet way, and the use of aquafortis well
known in France in the middle of the seventeenth century,

581

Athens, things found there announced by bills posted up,

664

Aurichalcum, or Corinthian brass, 3

Aurologium, 151

Axnan, usnan, usnen, plants employed by the Arabians for
making soda, 560

BABYLONIAN leather, 206

B.

Bar iron, how converted into steel, 247

Battle royal and Welsh main, explanation of, 515
Baudruche, meaning of, 171

Bedil, mentioned by Moses, supposed to be tin, 4. Con-
sidered by the Greek translators to be what they called
Cassiteros, 6

Beaver, named the Pontic dog, 223

Beer mixed with bitter things in Egypt, 385
Bills, custom of posting up very old, 589

Black cloth, how spoilt in dyeing, 141

Black lead, 345. Names by which it is known, 346. An-
cient manuscripts ruled with lead, 347. Plumbago, by
whom first mentioned, 349. Account of it by Cæsalpinus
and Imperati, 350. Mentioned by B. Ambrosius under the
Its use for crucibles, 353.
name of lapis plumbarius, 352.
Black lead pits in Cumberland, 353. In commerce called
potloth, 355. The first pencils used for drawing, 356. Black
and red chalk, 358

Blanque, a name given to lotteries, 403

Bleystift, meaning of, 346

Blitum, of the ancients, 264

Blue carmine, how made, 111

Bock, a prop used for supporting heavy guns, 605
Bohemian tin works, antiquity of, 38

How

Bologna stone, 418. Description of it, 419-422.
rendered capable of shining in the dark, 422. Discovery
of this phenomenon, by whom made, 423. Preparation of
the stone concealed by the Italian chemists, 424; taught
by Poterius to a French chemist, 425. Luminous stone
from India mentioned by De Thou, 426

Borage sown since the 14th century, 261; not known to the
ancients, ibid.

Borax at first considered as a kind of nitre, 559

Borith, 562

Bos, a term formerly given to every large animal, 212
Boutefeux, incendiaries who occasioned great devastation in
France in the 14th century, 90

Brassica of the ancients belonged to the cabbage genus,
264

Brassica oloracea, 268