INDEX to the Remarkable Paffages in the FOREIGN
ARTICLES Contained in the APPENDIX.
GLASS, the folubility of, in water,
proved by experiment, 546—
548.
HARRISON, Mr. obf. on his
time-keepers, 558-556.
HERCULES, his real character and
history investigated, 506. The
common ftories of his heroism
all allegorical, ib. His exploits
relate to agriculture, 509. Ido-
lized under various names, 511.
The Hercules Mufagetes explain-
ed, 512.
HERETICS. See Huss.
Huss, John, and Jerom of Prague,
their burning, the most magni-
ficent of all human facrifices,
528.
HYDROMETERS, propofed im-
provement in the conftruction
of, 549.
1.
ARS, M. his chemical experi-
ments, $51.
JEURAT, M. his memoir on the
refractive and difperfive powers of
glafs, 554.
ANDE, M. de la, his memoir
relative to the diameter of the
fun, and to the protuberance
obferved on its difk, during the
tranfits of Venus, 552. On the
fun's parallax, 553.
LAVOISIER, M. his memoir on
the tranfmutation of water into
earth, 544
Laws of Minos, one of Voltaire's
beft tragedies, 525.
LE ROI, M. his memoir on the
conftruction of electrical cofie
ductors, 549. His reflections on
hydrometers, ib.
SEXDIGITISM, a new word, mean-
ing of, 550.
SILVER, new method of feparating
from other metallic bodies, 551.
SULLY, Mr. his time-keeper, 557.
SUN, obf. relative to its true dia-
meter, 552. On the dark pro.
tuberance obferved on its difk,
during the tranfits of Venus, ib.
VANDALS, &c. effect one of
the greateft revolutions that
ever happened, by the ruin of
the Roman empire, 537. Re-
flections on, ib.-543.
VOLTAIRE, M. his account of the
Gentoos, 522. Of the Bramins,
523. Of ancient Heathen fu-
perftitions, 525. Of his tragedy
entitled, The Laws of Minos, ib.
Of an auguft affembly of Popish
princes, &c. at the burning of
two heretics, 528. Of the ori
gin of the Crufades, 530. His
Letter to the K. of Pruffia, 533-
His age afcertained, ib. Letter
to, from the prefent Czarina, ib.
Clement's Letter to, 575.
WATER, its tranfmutation into
earth, proved by experiment,
ERRATA, in this VOLUME.
P. 160, for ftated, enforced, and fhewn, read ftated and enforced;
and it is fhewn, &c.'
-304, for furgeon do not want, read furgeon does not want, &c.'
- 408, 1. 3 from the bottom, del. more.
456, par. 6, 1. ult. for improprieties of a fingular nature, read
of a fimilar nature.
56g, l. 17, for 25, 105, 450 toises; mad
25,1050 450 END OF VOL. L.;
ib. l. 24. the Janie correction,
viz. the full point at 105.
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