1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Classified List of Articles
Contents
Anthropology and EthnologyEdit
(For ancient anthropology see Archaeology; for religious customs see Religion § Comparative.)
General Subjects and TermsEdit
- Anthropometry
- Atavism
- Avenger of Blood
- Boomerang
- Brachycephalic
- Cannibalism
- Caste
- Cephalic Index
- Circumcision
- Clan
- Couvade
- Craniometry
- Creole
- Dago
- Dolichocephalic
- Dwarf
- Endogamy
- Eurasian
- Exogamy
- Family
- Fire
- Genna
- Hair
- Head-hunting
- Hetacrism
- Indonesian
- Kraal
- Levirate
- Matriarchate
- Mesocephalic
- Mestizo
- Miscegeneration
- Monogenists
- Mulatto
- Mutilation
- Name
- Nomad
- Octoroon
- Polyandry
- Polygamy
- Polygenists
- Prognathism
- Purrah
- Quadroon
- Quipus
- Steatopygia
- Taboo
- Tattooing
- Totemism
- Tribe
- Wampum
Races and Tribes, &c.Edit
- Abābda
- Abipones
- Abnaki
- Aborigines
- Acholi
- Afars (Danahil)
- Agaiambo or Agaiumbu
- Ahom or Aham
- Aht
- Ahtena
- Aimak or Eimak
- Ainu
- Akka
- Alfuros
- Algonquin
- Alur
- Amarar
- Anti or Campa
- Apache
- Apalachee
- Arabs
- Arapaho
- Araucanians
- Arawak
- Areoi
- Arikara or Aricara
- Artega
- Ashraf (Shurefa)
- Assiniboin
- Athapascan
- Attacapa
- Awadia and Fadnia
- Aymara
- Aztecs
- Babu
- Badagas
- Baggara
- Bakalai
- Bakhtiári
- Ba-Kwiri
- Ba-Luba
- Bambute
- Banate
- Bangash
- Barabra
- Bari
- Bashkirs
- Basques
- Battakhin
- Battanni
- Battas
- Batwa
- Bazigars
- Bechuana
- Bedouins
- Beja or Bija
- Bellabella
- Bellacoola or Bilquia
- Beni-Amer
- Beni-Israel
- Beothuk
- Berbers
- Bertat
- Bhattiana
- Buils or Bheels
- Bimana
- Bisharin
- Blackfoot
- Boer
- Bogos (Bileus)
- Bois Brûlés
- Bongo
- Botocudos
- Bozdar
- Brahui
- Bugis
- Bugti
- Buriats
- Bushmen
- Caddo
- Cagots
- Cahita
- Cahokia
- Cakchiquel
- Calchaqui
- Caribs
- Cashibo or Carapache
- Catauxi
- Catawbas
- Celt
- Chamkanni
- Changos
- Charrua
- Chechenzes
- Chellian
- Cheremisses
- Cherokee
- Cheyenne
- Chickasaws
- Chimesyan
- Chinook
- Chiquitos
- Choctaws
- Cholones
- Chude
- Chukchi
- Chuncho
- Chuvashes
- Circassia
- Cocoma or Cucamas
- Coeur d'Alene/
- Comanches
- Conestoga
- Conibos
- Copts
- Cree
- Creek Indians
- Crow Indians
- Cunas
- Curctus
- Czech
- Dawari or Dauri
- Delaware Indians
- Dinka
- Dogra
- Dravidian
- Dualia
- Duk-Duk
- Durani
- Dyaks or Dayaks
- Engis
- Eskimo
- Ewe
- Falashas
- Fung
- Fanti
- Fellah
- Fiji
- Fingo or Fengu
- Finno-Ugrian
- Flatheads
- Fox Indians
- Fula
- Funj
- Furfooz
- Galachas
- Gallas
- Gararish
- Ghilzal
- Gilyaks
- Gipsies
- Golds
- Gonaguns
- Gros Ventres
- Guanches
- Guaranis
- Guatos
- Guatusos
- Guaycurus
- Gumus
- Hababs
- Hadendoa
- Haida
- Hakkas
- Hamitic Races
- Harratin
- Hassania
- Hausa
- Hawawir
- Hazara
- Herero or Ovaherero
- Hindki
- Hipurnias
- Hiung-nu
- Hopi
- Hottentots
- Hova
- Huambisas
- Huastecs
- Huichol
- Huron
- Indians, North American
- Iquitos
- Iroquois
- Irulas
- Itza
- Ja'alin
- Jakuns
- Jute
- Jeveros
- Jibitos
- Jicarilla
- Juangs
- Jur (Diur)
- Juris
- Kabbabish
- Kabyics
- Kaffirs
- Kakar
- Kalapuya
- Kalispol
- Kalikas
- Kanaka
- Kanuri (Beriberi)
- Kara-Kalpaks
- Karen
- Kashubes
- Kavirondo
- Kaw (Kansa)
- Kayasth
- Khamtis
- Khattak
- Khazars
- Khevsurs
- Khonds
- Kickapoo
- Kiowas
- Kirghiz
- Klamath
- Koch
- Kolis
- Kols
- Korkus
- Koryaks
- Kotas
- Krumen
- Kubus
- Kumyks
- Kunbis
- Kurumbas
- Kusan
- Kutenai
- Kwakiutl
- Laos
- Lascar
- Latuke
- Legas
- Lopcha
- Lipan
- Lolos
- Madi
- Mahar
- Mahrattas
- Makalaka
- Makaraka
- Malays
- Mandan
- Mandingo
- Maneteneris
- Mangbettu
- Manitou
- Manyema
- Maori
- Marianas
- Mariposan
- Maroons
- Marri
- Masai
- Mashona
- Matabele
- Maya
- Mayoruna
- Menangkubos
- Menss and Marea
- Meshcheryaks
- Meyrifab
- Miami
- Miaotsze
- Micmac
- Mikirs
- Mishmi (tribe)
- Modoc
- Mohave
- Mohawk
- Mohican
- Mohmand
- Monassir
- Montagnais
- Moors
- Moplah
- Mordvinians
- Moxos
- Mpongwe (Pongos)
- Mundas
- Mundrucus
- Muras
- Musa Kel
- Muskhogean Stock
- Mzabites or Beni-Mzab
- Nahualtlan Stock
- Namasudra
- Nandi
- Navaho or Navajo
- Nayar or Nair
- Negritos
- Negro
- Nez Perces
- Niam-Niam
- Nuer
- Oerlams
- Ojibway
- Omaguas
- Omahas
- Oneida
- Onondaga
- Opata
- Orakzal
- Oraons
- Ostiaks
- Ottawa
- Papuans
- Pariah (caste)
- Parsees
- Pathan (people)
- Pawnee
- Penobscot
- Pequot
- Petchenegs
- Pima
- Polabs
- Ponca
- Pondo
- Potawatami
- Povindah
- Prabhu (caste)
- Pueblo Indians
- Puelche
- Pygmy
- Quiche or Kiches
- Quichua
- Rajput
- Riffans
- Ruthenians
- Sahos
- Sakai
- Salishan
- Samoyedes
- Santals
- Semang
- Seminole
- Seneca
- Serers
- Shagia
- Shangalla
- Shans
- Shawnee
- Sherani or Shirant
- Shilluh
- Shilluk
- Shinwari
- Shukria
- Sienetjo
- Sikh
- Sioux
- Slavs
- Slovaks
- Slovenes
- Songhoi
- Sorbs
- Spy (commune)
- Swahili
- Syryenians
- Tajik
- Talaing
- Tamils
- Tarkani
- Tutars
- Tehuelche, Chulche or Huilliche
- Tembu
- Tibbu or Tebu
- Todas
- Toltecs
- Troglodytes
- Tshi, Tehwi, Chi or Oti
- Tuareg or Tawarek
- Tukulor (Tuculers)
- Tunguses
- Tupis
- Turi
- Turki
- Turkoman
- Turks
- Tuscarora
- Uighur
- Unyamwezi
- Ustarana
- Ute (Utah)
- Utman Khel
- Vaalpens
- Veddahs
- Voodoo or Vaudoux
- Wa
- Wichita
- Wochua
- Wolof (Woloff, Jolof)
- Wyandot (Huron)
- Yaos
- Yusafzai
- Zalmukht
- Zaparos
- Zenaga
- Zenata
BiographiesEdit
(See also Zoology)
- Avebury, John Lubbock, 1st baron
- Bandelier, Adolph F. A.
- Bastian, Adolf
- Brasseur de Bourbourg, Charles Etienne
- Brinton, Daniel Garrison
- Broca, Paul
- Catlin, George
- Christy, Henry
- Dawkins, William Boyd
- Deniker, Joseph
- Fletcher, Alice C.
- Hale, Horatio
- Hodgson, Brian Houghton
- Lartet, Edouard
- M‘Lennan, John Ferguson
- Mantegazza, Paolo
- Morgan, Lewis Henry
- Mortillet, Louis Laurent Gabriel de
- Prichard, James Cowles
- Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
- Tylor, Edward B.
- Waitz, Theodor
Archaeology and AntiquitiesEdit
(For sites see the section Geography. See also under Art, Philology, Religion § Comparative.)
SubjectsEdit
- Aegean Civilization
- Antiquary
- Barrow
- Bronze Age
- Cairn
- Calaveras Skull
- Catacomb
- Chariot
- Celt (tool)
- Cippus
- Cist
- Clepsydra
- Cliff Dwellings
- Colossus
- Columbarium
- Crannog
- Cromagnon Race
- Dene Holes
- Epigraphy
- Flint Implements
- Graffito
- Hallstatt
- Hittites
- Inscriptions
- Iovilae
- Iron Age
- Kent's Cavern
- Konarak
- Labyrinth
- Lake Dwellings
- Lansing Man
- La Tene
- Madelenian
- Marnian Epoch
- Moulin Quignon
- Mound Builders
- Mousterian
- Neanderthal
- Neolithic
- Palaeography
- Palaeolithic
- Round Towers
- Sarcophagus
- Scarab
- Shell Heaps
- Solutrian Epoch
- Sphinx
- Stone Age
- Stone Monuments
- Terramara
- Villanova
- Vitrified Forts
BiographiesEdit
- Agarde, Arthur
- Agostini, Leonardo
- Akerman, John Yonge
- Ashmole, Elias
- Baker, Thomas
- Barthélemy, Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de
- Becker, Wilhelm Adolf
- Belzoni, Giovanni Battista
- Bent, James Theodore
- Beulé, Charles Ernest
- Birch, Samuel
- Boissard, Jean Jacques
- Bond, Sir Edward Augustus
- Borghesi, Bartolommeo
- Borlase, William
- Böttiger, Karl August
- Brand, John
- Brayley, Edward Wedlake
- Britton, John
- Bröndsted, Peter Oluf
- Brugsch, Heinrich Karl
- Bursian, Conrad
- Canina, Luigi
- Cesnola, Luigi Palma di
- Champollion, Jean François
- ...
ArtEdit
GeneralEdit
ArchitectureEdit
SubjectsEdit
- Abacus
- Abated
- Abbey
- Abutment
- Acroterium
- Aedicula
- Aisle
- Aiwan
- Alcove
- Alley
- Almery
- Almonry
- Almshouse
- Alure
- Ambo
- Ambulatory
- Amphiprostyle
- Amphitheatre
- Andron
- Angel-lights
- Antae
- Ante-chapel
- Ante-choir
- Ante-fixae
- Anthemion
- Apophyge
- Apse
- Apteral
- Aqueduct
- Araeostyle
- Araeosystyle
- Arcade
- Arch
- Architrave
- Archivolt
- Arcosolium
- Arena
- Arris
- Ashlar
- Astragal
- Astylar
- Atrium
- Attic
- Attic Base
- Back-Choir
- Bailey
- Balcony
- Ball-flower
- Baluster
- Balustrade
- Banker-Marks
- Baptistery
- Barbican
- Bargeboard
- Bartizan
- Base
- Basement
- Basilica
- Batement Lights
- Baths
- Batter
- Battlement
- Bay
- Bed-Mould
- Belfry
- Bell-Cot
- Belvedere
- Bema
- Bench Table
- Bevel
- Bezantée
- Bowtell
- Bracket
- Brattishing
- Broach
- Bungalow
- Cable Moulding
- Camber
- Campanile
- Canalis
- Cancelli
- Candelabrum
- Canephorae
- Canopy
- Capital
- Cartouche
- Caryatides
- Casement
- Castle
- Cathedral
- Cathetus
- Cauliculus
- Cavaedium
- Cavea
- Cavetto
- Ceiling
- Cella
- Chalcidicum
- Chamfer
- ...
BiographiesEdit
- Adam, Robert
- Alberti, Leone Battista
- Alessi, Galeazzo
- Apollodorus of Damascus
- Baccio d'Agnolo
- Baltard, Louis Pierre
- Barocchio, Giacomo (da Vignola)
- Barry, Sir Charles
- Blomfield, Sir Arthur William
- Bodley, George Frederick
- Bonomi, Giuseppi
- Borromini, Francesco
- Bramante
- Bray, Sir Reginald
- Brunelleschi, Filippo
- Bulfinch, Charles
- Butterfield, William
- Cagnola, Luigi, Marchese
- Camus de Mézières, Nicolas le
- Chambers, Sir William
- ...
MusicEdit
SubjectsEdit
InstrumentsEdit
BiographiesEdit
Painting and EngravingEdit
SubjectsEdit
BiographiesEdit
SculptureEdit
SubjectsEdit
BiographiesEdit
Minor ArtsEdit
FurnitureEdit
BiographiesEdit
Stage and DancingEdit
SubjectsEdit
BiographiesEdit
AstronomyEdit
GeneralEdit
- Aberration
- Ablatitious
- Albedo
- Alidade
- Almacantar
- Altitude
- Amplitude
- Anomaly
- Aphelion
- Apse and Apsides
- Armilla
- Astrolabe
- Astrophysics
- Azimuth
- Binary System
- Biquintile
- Black Drop
- Chromosphere
- Colure
- Comet
- Comet-seeker
- Compression
- Conjunction
- Corona
- Coronium
- Cosmic
- Culmination
- Cycle
- Declination
- Deferent
- Dial and Dialling
- Direct motion
- Diurnal motion
- Earth
- Eccentric
- Eclipse
- Ecliptic
- Egress
- Ellipticity
- Elongation
- Ephemeris
- Epicycle
- Epoch
- Equation of the center
- Equation of time
- Equator
- Equinox
- Eros
- Establishment of a port
- Evection
- Facula
- Firmament
- Gegenschein
- Geocentric
- Heliacal
- Heliocentric
- Heliometer
- Horizon
- Hour angle
- Immersion
- Ingress
- Invariable Plane
- Jupiter
- Latitude
- Libration
- Longitude
- Lunation
- Mars
- Mercury
- Meridian
- Meteor
- Metonic cycle
- Micrometer
- Moon
- Nadir
- Nebula
- Nebular theory
- Neptune
- Node
- Nutation
- Observatory
- Occultation
- Orbit
- Parallax
- Penumbra
- Perigree
- Perihelion
- Phoebe
- Photography, Celestial
- Photometry, Celestial
- Planet
- Planets, Minor
- Precession of the equinoxes
- Prime vertical
- Quadrature
- Retrograde
- Right Ascension
- Satellite
- Saturn
- Sextant
- Solar system
- Solstice
- Spectroheliograph
- Stationary
- Sun
- Synodic Period
- Syzygy
- Telescope
- Terminator
- Three bodies, Problem of
- Time, Measurement of
- Time, Stadard
- Transit circle, or Meridian circle
- Trepidation
- Umbra
- Uranus
- Venus
- Vertical
- Zenith
- Zodiac
- Zodiacal Light
Constellations and StarsEdit
- Algol
- Andromeda
- Ansa
- Aquarius
- Aquila
- Arcturus
- Aries
- Auriga
- Boötes
- Cancer
- Canes Venatici
- Canis Major
- Capricornus
- Cassiopeia
- Centaurus
- Cepheus
- Cetus
- Coma Berenices
- Cygnus
- Cynosure
- Delphinus
- Draco
- Eridanus
- Gemini
- Hercules
- Hydra
- Leo
- Libra
- Lyra
- Μagellanic Clouds
- Orion
- Perseus/
- Pisces
- Pleiades
- Sagitta
- Sagittarius
- Serpentarius or Ophiuchus
- Taurus
- Ursa Major
- Ursa Minor
- Virgo
- Vulpecula et Anser
BiographiesEdit
- Adams, John Couch
- Airy, Sir George Biddell
- Albategnius
- Albumazar (Abu-Maaschar)
- Amici, Giovanni Battista
- Andronicus of Cyrrhus
- Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August
- Aristarchus of Samos
- Bailly, Jean Sylvain
- Baily, Francis
- Bainbridge, John
- Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Bianchini, Francesco
- Bode, Johann Elert
- Bradley, James
- Brahe, Tycho
- Brisbane, Sir Thomas Makdougall
- Brünnow, Franz Friedrich Ernst
- Calvisius, Sethus
- Campani-Alimenis, Matteo
- Carrington, Richard Christopher
- Cassini (family)
- Celsius, Anders
- Clerke, Agnes Mary
- Conon
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- Cunitz, Maria
- Dee, John
- Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph
- De la Rue, Warren
- Delisle, Joseph Nicolas
- Dick, Thomas
- Donati, Giovanni Battista
- Dupuis, Charles François
- Encke, Johann Franz
- Eratosthenes of Alexandria
- Flamsteed, John
- Galileo Galilei
- Gould, Benjamin Apthorp
- Grant, Robert
- Halley, Edmund
- Hansen, Peter Andreas
- Hansteen, Christopher
- Herschel, Caroline Lucretia
- Herschel, Sir Frederick William
- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William
- Hevelius, Johann
- Hipparchus
- Horrocks, Jeremiah
- Huggins, Sir William
- Ideler, Christian Ludwig
- Inghirami, Giovanni
- Janssen, Pierre Jules César
- Kepler, Johann
- Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de
- Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de
- Lamont, Johann von
- Lemonnier, Pierre Charles
- Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph
- Lilly, William
- Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman
- Longomontanus, Christian Severin or Longberg, C. S.
- Maskelyne, Nevil
- Mayer, Johann Tobias
- Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight
- Mitchell, Maria
- Möbius, August Ferdinand
- Morrison, Richard James (Zadkiel)
- Mouchez, Amédée Ernest Barthélémy
- Newcomb, Simon
- Nostradamus
- Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias
- Piazzi, Giuseppe
- Pickering, Edward Charles
- Pond, John
- Pons, Jean Louis
- Pritchard, Charles
- Proctor, Richard Anthony
- Ptolemy (Claudius)
- Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques
- Ramsden, Jesse
- Regiomontanus
- Reichenbach, Georg von
- Repsold, Johann Georg
- Rheticus or Rhaeticus
- Rittenhouse, David
- Robinson, John Thomas Romney
- Roemer, Ole
- Rosse, William Parsons, 3rd earl of
- Rümker, Carl Ludwig Christian
- Sabine, Sir Edward
- Sacro Bosco, Johannes de (John Holywood)
- Santini, Giovanni
- Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio
- Schönfeld, Eduard
- Schröter, Johann Hieronymus
- Schumacher, Heinrich Christian
- Schwabe, Samuel Heinrich
- Secchi, Angelo
- Smyth, Charles Piazzi
- Somerville, Mary
- Sosigenes
- Stone, Edward James
- Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm
- Tisserand, François Félix
- Troughton, Edward
- Ulugh Beg
- Walker, Sears Cook
- Walther, Bernhard
- Zach, Franz Xaver, Baron von
- Zöllner, Johann Karl Friedrich
BiologyEdit
GeneralEdit
- Abiogenesis
- Acclimatization
- Acephalous
- Acuminate
- Adaptation
- Aestivation
- Albino
- Alveolate
- Anabolism
- Anastomosis
- Aporose
- Auricle
- Autogeny
- Bathybius
- Biogenesis
- Bipartite
- Catabolism
- Chemotaxus
- Cilia
- Cytology
- Embryology
- Enzyme
- Evolution
- Fermentation
- Habitat
- Heredity
- Hybridism
- Life
- Longevity
- Mendelism
- Metabolism
- Microtomy
- Monotypic
- Morphology
- Oecology or Ecology
- Osteology
- Parasitism
- Protoplasm
- Reproduction
- Rhacis or Rachis
- Specis
- Telegony
- Variation and Selection
BotanyEdit
GeneralEdit
SystematicEdit
Natural HistoryEdit
ZoologyEdit
(for Anatomy and Physiology see under Medical Science)
GeneralEdit
SystematicEdit
InvertebraEdit
VertebraEdit
Natural HistoryEdit
MammalsEdit
(for Farm Animals see under Industries § Agriculture)
BirdsEdit
FishesEdit
InsectsEdit
ReptilesEdit
BatrachiansEdit
Other InvertebraEdit
PalaentologyEdit
BiographiesEdit
ChemistryEdit
GeneralEdit
- Affinity, Chemical
- Alembic
- Allotropy
- Amorphism
- Analysis
- Assaying
- Atmolysis
- Atom
- Blowpipe
- Catalysis
- Chemical Action
- Combustion
- Condenser
- Crystallization
- Decolourizing
- Desiccation
- Dialysis
- Dissociation
- Distillation
- Electrochemistry
- Electrolysis
- Element
- Elixir
- Equivalent
- Explosives
- Flame
- Formula
- Gas
- Hydrolysis
- Iatrochemistry
- Indicator
- Isomerism
- Matrass
- Molecule
- Photochemistry
- Pigments
- Pyrophorus
- Radioactivity
- Solution
- Stereochemistry
- Stereo-isometrism
- Stoichiometry
- Thermochemistry
- Valency
InorganicEdit
- Acid
- Algaroth, Powder of
- Alkali
- Alkali Manufacture
- Alkaline Earths
- Alum
- Aluminium
- Amalgam
- Ammonia
- Antimony
- Argon
- Arsenic
- Azoimide or Hydrazoic Acid
- Azoth
- Barium
- Base
- Beryllium or Glucinum
- Bichromates and Chromates
- Bismuth
- Bittern
- Borax
- Boric Acid or Boracic Acid
- Boron
- Brimstone
- Bromine
- Cadmium
- Caesium
- Calcium
- Calomel
- Carbide
- Carbon
- Carbonates
- Carbon Bisulphide
- Carbonic Acid
- Carborundum
- Caustic
- Cerium
- Charcoal
- Chlorates
- Chlorine
- Chromium
- Cobalt
- Colcothar
- Columbium or Niobium
- Copper
- Copperas
- Corrosive Sublimate
OrganicEdit
BiographiesEdit
- Abel, Sir Frederick A.
- Achard, F. C.
- Andrews, Thomas
- Baeyer, Adolf von
- Balard, Antoine J.
- Baumé, Antoine
- Becher, J. J.
- Bell, Jacob
- Bergman, Torbern Olof
- Berthelot, M. P. E.
- Berthollet, C. L.
- Berzelius, J. J.
- Black, Joseph
- Boussingault, J. B. J. D.
- Brande, William Thomas
- Brown, S. M.
- Bunsen, R. W. v.
- Calvert, F. Crace
- Cannizzaro, Stanislao
- Cavendish, Henry
- Chevreul, M. E.
- Clark, Thomas
- Crookes, Sir William
- Dalton, John
- Daniell, John F.
- Davy, Sir Humphry
- Dewar, Sir James
- Döbereiner, J. W.
- Dulong, Pierre Louis
- Dumas, Jean Baptiste A.
- Erdmann, Otto Linné
- Fehling, Hermann von
- Fischer, Emil
- Fittig, Rudolf
- Flamel, Nicolas
- Fourcroy, A. F., comte de
- Frankland, Sir Edward
- Frémy, Edmond
- Fresenius, Karl R.
- Friedel, Charles
- Fuchs, Johann N. von
- Gannal, J. N.
- Gay-Lussac, J. L.
- Geber
- Geoffroy, E. F.
- Gerhardt, Charles F.
- Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott
- Gilbert, Sir Joseph H.
- Gladstone, John Hall
- Glaser, Christopher
- Glauber, Johann R.
- Gmelin (family)
- Graham, Thomas
- Guimet, Jean B.
- Guyton de Morveau, baron
- Harcourt, W. Vernon
- Helmont, Jean B. van
- Henry, William
- Hofmann, A. W. von
- Homberg, Wilhelm
- Kekulé, F. August
- Klaproth, M. H.
- Kolbe, A. W. Hermann
- Kopp, Hermann F. M.
- Kunkel or Kunckel von Lowenstjern, J.
- Lavoisier, A. L.
- Le Blanc, Nicolas
- Lemery, Nicolas
- Liebig, J. von, baron
- Lunge, Georg
- Magnus, H. G.
- Marggraf, Andreas S.
- Marignac, Jean C. G. de
- Mayow, John
- Mendeléeff, Dmitri I.
- Meyer, J. Lothar
- Meyer, Victor
- Mitscherlich, E.
- Mohr, K. Friedrich
- Moissan, Henri
- Mond, Ludwig
- Murray, John
- Muspratt, J. and J. S.
- Newlands, John A. R.
- Nobel, Alfred B.
- Pasteur, Louis
- Pelouze, T. Jules
- Perkin, Sir W. H.
- Pettenkofer, Max J. von
- Plattner, K. F.
- Priestley, Joseph
- Proust, Joseph Louis
- Prout, William
- Ramsay, Sir William
- Raoult, François M.
- Regnault, H. V.
- Richter, J. B.
- Roebuck, John
- Roscoe, Sir H. E.
- Rose (family)
- Rouelle, G. F.
- Sainte-Claire Deville, E. H.
- Scheele, K. W.
- Schönbein, C. F.
- Schützenberger, P.
- Silliman, Benjamin
- Stahl, G. E.
- Stas, J. S.
- Tennant, Charles
- Tennant, Smithson
- Thénard, L. J.
- Thomsen, Julius
- Thomson, Thomas
- Van 't Hoff, J. H.
- Vauquelin, L. N.
- Weldon, Walter
- Wenzel, K. F.
- Williamson, A. W.
- Wislicenus, J.
- Wöhler, Friedrich
- Wollaston, W. H.
- Wurtz, C. A.
- Young, James
Economics and Social ScienceEdit
(See also the articles on countries for statistics of trade, etc.; also Medical Science)
GeneralEdit
- Absenteeism
- Actuary
- Ad Valorem
- Advertisement
- Advice
- Agent-General
- Aids
- Allotments and Small Holdings
- Almack's
- Almage or Aulnage
- Anarchism
- Apprenticeship
- Arbitration and Conciliation
- Artel
- Baby-farming
- Bachelor
- Badger
- Balance of Trade
- Bedlam, or Bethlehem Hospital
- Beefsteak Club
- Beggar
- B'nal B'rith (or Sons of the Covenant), Independent Order of
- Boarding-out System
- Bondager
- Bonus
- Book-keeping
- Bounty
- Bourse
- Breaking Bulk
- Brook Farm
- Brook's
- Building Societies
- Burial Societies
- Butlerage and Prisage
- Camorra
- Census
- Cess
- Charity and Charities
- Club
- Collectivism
- Combination
- Commerce
- Commercial Treaties
- Commissionaire
- Communism
- Concubinage
- Consumption
- Coolie
- Cooperage, or Coperage
- Co-operation
- Cooper Union
- Corn Laws
- Corvée
- Creche
- Crofter
- Demography
- Distribution
- Dock Warrant
- Drawback
- Druids, Order of
- Duel
- Emigration
- Employers' Liability and Workmen's Compensation
- Engrossing
- Eugenics
- Excambion
- Exhibition
- Factory Acts
- Fair
- Famine
- Farm
- Fiars Prices
- Fief
- Fire and Fire Extinction
- Folkland
- Forestalling
- Foundling Hospitals
- Franking
- Fraternities, College
- Freemansonry
- Free Ports
- Free Trade
- Friendly Societies
- George Junior Republic, U.S.A.
- Gilds
- Grain Trade
- Hooligan
- Housing
- Illegitimacy
- Immigration
- Internation, The
- Kit-Cat Club
- Labour Exchange
- Labour Legislation
- Livery Companies
- Mafia
- Mendicancy
- Mercantile Agencies
- Mercantile System
- Mëtayage System
- Migration
- Monopoly
- National Workshops
- Oddfellows, Order of
- Old-Age Pensions
- Oneida Community
- Owling
- Pauperism
- Pwanbroking
- Peonage
- Physiocratic School
- Poor Law
- Population
- Primage
- Production
- Profit-sharing
- Proletariat, or Proletariate
- Prostitution
- Protection
- Rebate
- Reciprocity
- Regrating
- Roundsman System
- Salvage Corps
- Sample
- Anctuary
- Serfdom
- Slavery
- Smuggling
- Social Contract
- Socialism
- Social Settlements
- Stannaries
- Staple
- Statistics
- Statute Merchant and Statue Stample
- Steelyard, Merchants of the
- Strikes and Lock-Outs
- Subsidy
- Suicide
- Sumptuary Laws
- Sweating System
- Talukdar
- Tare and Tret
- Tariff
- Teetotalism
- Title Guarantee Companies
- Trade Organization
- Trade Unions
- Tramp
- Trusts
- Unemployment
- Usury
- Vagrancy
- Value
- Vill
- Village Communities
- Villenage
- Wages
- Wealth
- Women
Finance and CurrencyEdit
BiographiesEdit
EducationEdit
(See also the educational sections in the articles on particular countries; also articles on towns)
SubjectsEdit
- Academics
- Adolescence
- Bachelor
- Barring Out
- Battel
- Bejan
- Blindness
- Bryn Mawr College
- Bursar
- California, University of
- Chicago, University of
- Child
- Crist's Hospital
- Classics
- Co-education
- College
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Datmouth College
- Deaf and Dumb
- Doctor
- Encaenia
- Examinations
- Fagging
- Fellow
- Faudy
- Graduate
- Gymnastics and Gymnasium
- Harvard University
- Horn Book
- Hostel
- Industrial School
- Infant Schools
- Johns Hopkins University
- Kindergarten
- Leland Standford Jr. University
- Lowell Institute
- Lyceum
- Master
- Michigan, University of
- Mount Holyoke College
- Munshi, or Moonshi
- Museums of Science
- Pegagogue
- Pennsylvania, University of
- Polytechnic
- Preceptor
- Princeton University
- Proctor
- Professor
- Reformatory School
- Research
- Schools
- Seminary
- Sizar
- Smith College
- Smithsonian Institution
- Sophomore
- Sorbonne
- Technical Education
- Testamur
- Tutor
- Universities
- Vassar College, N.Y.
- Virginia, University of
- Wisconsin, University of
- Yale University
BiographiesEdit
EngineeringEdit
(For electrical engineering see under Physics)
GeneralEdit
- Abrasion
- Adjutage
- Adze
- Air-engine
- Anvil
- Aqueduct
- Archimedes, Screw of
- Artesian Wells
- Auger
- Autoclave
- Awl
- Axe
- Axle
- Barker's mill
- Bearings
- Bellows and Blowing Machines
- Boiler
- Bradawl
- Breakwater
- Bridges
- Bush
- Caisson
- Caledonian Canal
- Canal
- Cantilever
- Cash Register
- Causeway
- Chain
- Chisel
- Chronograph
- Clock
- Cofferdam
- Conveyors
- Copying Machines
- Cranes
- Crank
- Destructors
- Divers and Diving Apparatus
- Dock
- Dredge and Dredging
- Dynamometer
- Elevators, Lifts or Hoists
- Embankment
- Engine
- Felloe
- File
- Filter
- Friction
- Fuel
- Gas Engine
- Gauge or Gage
- Gimlet
- Gouge
- Hammer
- Harbour
- Harpoon
- Hatchet
- Horse Power
- Hose-pipe
- Hydraulics
- Injector
- Irrigation
- Jetty
- Joints
- Knife
- Ladder
- Lamp
- Lathe
- Lock
- Lubricants
- Lubrication
- Manchester Ship Canal
- Mill
- Oil-Engine
- Panama Canal
- Parallel Motion
- Pedometer
- Pier
- Piston
- Pulley
- Pump
- Reclamation of Land
- Refrigerating and Ice-making
- River Engineering
- Rivet
- Roads and Streets
- Saw
- Scissors
- Screw
- Sewerage
- Sewing Machines
- Shadoof
- Shears
- Shovel
- Shuttle
- Sieve
- Signal
- Siphon or Syphon
- Sleeper
- Smoke
- Spade
- Steam-Engine
- Strength of Materials
- Suez Canal
- Syringe
- Tongs
- Tool
- Tube
- Tunnel
- Tweezers
- Typewriter
- Valve
- Voting Machines
- Wainscot
- Watch
- Water Motors
- Water Supply
- Weir
- Well
- Windmill
BuildingEdit
- Adobe
- Brick
- Brickwork
- Carpentry
- Cement
- Concrete
- Crystal Palace
- Dry Rot
- Firebrick
- Foundations
- Glazing
- Heating
- Joinery
- Joist
- Lath
- Masonry
- Mortar
- Mortise or Mortice
- Painter-work
- Plaster-work
- Rafter
- Random
- Roofs
- Safes, Strong-rooms and Vaults
- Scaffold, Scaffolding
- Scantling
- Shoring
- Steel Construction
- Stone
- Stove
- Stucco
- Timber
- Ventilation
LocomotionEdit
- Aeronautics
- Atmospheric Railway
- Balloon
- Barouche
- Bath-chair
- Berlin (carriage)
- Bicycle
- Bogie
- Brake
- Britzaka
- Broughham
- Buggy
- Cab
- Car
- Caravan
- Caravanserai
- Caravel or Carvel
- Carriage
- Cart
- Chaise
- Char-à-banc
- Coach
- Coupé
- Curricle
- Droshky
- Flight and Flying
- Jaunting Car
- Litter
- Motors, Electric
- Motor Vehicles
- Palanquin
- Parachute
- Pneumatic Despatch
- Railways
- Sedan-chair
- Sleigh, Sled or Sledge
- Tire
- Traction
- Tramway
- Tricycle
- Wagon or Waggon
ShippingEdit
- Anchor
- Ballast
- Barge
- Belay
- Berth
- Bilge
- Binnacle
- Boat
- Bowline
- Bumboat
- Buoy
- Burgee
- Cable
- Cabotage
- Calque
- Canoe
- Capstan
- Catamaran
- Cleat
- Cobic
- Coracle (Corwgl)
- Dahabeah
- Dhow
- Dinghy, dingey
- Felucca
- Gimbal
- Hawser
- Holystone
- Junk
- Kayak or Cayak
- Keel
- Lateen
- Life-boat and life-saving service
- Lighthouse
- Log
- Mast
- Navigation
- Oar
- Pilot
- Pinnace
- Pirogue or Piragua
- Polacca
- Poop
- Pram
- Proa
- Punt
- Quarterdeck
- Quay
- Random
- Rigging
- Rowlock
- Rudder
- Sail
- Sailcloth
- Sampan
- Schooner
- Seamanship
- Semaphore
- Ship
- Shipbuilding
- Sloop
- Smack
- Starboard
- Steamship Lines
- Tonnage
- Trinity House, Corporation of
- Turbine
- Wharf
- Yawl
Mining and MetallurgyEdit
- Alloys
- Annealing, Hardening and Tempering
- Anthracite
- Banket
- Biddery
- Blasting
- Bloom
- Boring
- Brass
- Brazing and Soldering
- Bronze
- Bronzing
- Coal
- Damascening or Damaskcening
- Damask Steel or Damascus Steel
- Electrum
- Flume
- Flux
- Forging
- Fossick
- Founding
- Fuel
- Furnace
- Fusible Metal
- Galvanized Iron
- German Siver or Nickel Silver
- Ingot
- Invar
- Iron and Steel
- Kiln
- Lutten
- Metal
- Metallography
- Ore-dressing
- Pewter
- Quarrying
- Rolling Mill
- Safety-lamp
- Shaft-sinking
- Solder
- Tin-plate and Terne-plate
- Welding
BiographiesEdit
- Arkwright, Sir Richard
- Armstrong, 1st Baron/
- Baird, James
- Baker, Sir Benjamin
- Bazalgette, Sir Joseph William
- Bell, Henry
- Berthon, Edward Lyon
- Berthoud, Ferdinand
- Bessemer, Sir Henry
- Bidder, George Parker
- Boulton, Matthew
- Bramah, Joseph
- Brassey, Thomas
- Bridgewater, 3rd Duke of
- Bright, Sir Charles
- Brindley, James
- Brown, Sir John
- Brunel, I. K.
- Brunel, Sir Marc
- Burns, Sir George, bart.
- Camus, F. J. des
- Carnegie, Andrew
- Cartwright, Edmund
- Cantley, Sir Proby Thomas
- Chappe, Claude
- Chubb, Charles
- Clarke, Josiah Latimer
- Cockerill W. (and J.)
- Congreve, Sir William, bart.
- Coode, Sir John
- Corning, Erastus
- Coxwell, Henry Tracey
- Cramp, Charles Henry
- Crompton, Samuel
- Cubitt, Thomas
- Cubitt, Sir William
- Cunard, Sir Samuel
- Currie, Sir Donald
- Drummond, Thomas
- Dupuy de Lomo, S. C. H. L.
- Eads, James Buchanan
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Ericsson, John
- Evans, Oliver
- Fairburn, Sir William
- Ferguson, James
- Finlay, Sir George
- Firth, Mark
- Fitch, John
- Fowler, Sir John
- Fowler, John
- Fulton, Robert
- Gatling, Richard Jordan
- Girard, Philippe Henri de
- Gooch, Sir Daniel, bart.
- Goodyear, Charles
- Greathead, James Henry
- Grimthorp, 1st Baron
- Harrison, John
- Hartley, Sir Charles Augustus
- Hawkshaw, Sir John
- Hawksley, Thomas
- Heathcoat, John
- Hodgkinson, Eaton
- Holden, Sir Isaac, bart.
- Ismay, Thomas Henry
- Jacquard, Joseph Marie
- Jenkin, H. C. F.
- Kingsford, W.
- Krupp, Alfred
- Lindley, William
- McAdam, John Loudon
- McCormick, Cyrus Hall
- Marquand, Henry G.
- Masham, Baron
- Maxim, Sir Hirem
- Murdock, William
- Myddelton, Sir Hugh
- Nasmyth, James
- Newcomen, Thomas
- Nixon, John
- Noble, Sir Andrew
- Palmer, Sir Charles Mark
- Perkins, Jacob
- Pole, William
- Prony, G. C. F. M. R. de
- Rankine, W. J. M.
- Rawlinson, Sir Robert
- Reid, Sir Robert G.
- Rennie, John
- Roebling, J. A.
- Schichau, Ferdinand
- Seppings, Sir Robert
- Siemans, Sir William (Karl Wilhelm)
- Smeaton, John
- Starley, James
- Stephenson, George
- Stephenson, Robert
- Stevenson, Robert
- Strutt, Jedediah
- Tangye, Sir Richard
- Telford, Thomas
- Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist
- Tregold, Thomas
- Trevithick, Richard
- Watt, James
- White, Sir William H.
- Whitney, Eli
- Whitworth, Sir Joseph, bart.
- Wilkinson, John
GeographyEdit
General Subjects and CartographyEdit
Physical Features and OceanographyEdit
MeteorologyEdit
Europe (Continental)Edit
Physical featuresEdit
LakesEdit
MountainsEdit
RiversEdit
MiscellaneousEdit
CountriesEdit
Austria-HungaryEdit
DivisionsEdit
Towns, etc.Edit
BelgiumEdit
DivisionsEdit
Towns, etc.Edit
BulgariaEdit
DenmarkEdit
FranceEdit
DivisionsEdit
Towns, etc.Edit
GermanyEdit
DivisionsEdit
Towns, etc.Edit
GreeceEdit
Divisions, etc.Edit
Towns, etc.Edit
HollandEdit
DivisionsEdit
Towns, etc.Edit
ItalyEdit
DivisionsEdit
Towns, etc. (modern names)Edit
Towns, etc. (ancient names)Edit
Luxemburg, Grand Duchy ofEdit
Mediterranean Islands, etc.Edit
MontenegroEdit
NorwayEdit
PortugalEdit
RumaniaEdit
Russia in EuropeEdit
DivisionsEdit
(Including Transcaucasia)
Towns, etc.Edit
ServiaEdit
SpainEdit
DivisionsEdit
Towns, etc.Edit
SwedenEdit
SwitzerlandEdit
DivisionsEdit
Towns, etc.Edit
Turkey in EuropeEdit
Ancient geographyEdit
(Excluding towns in Greece and Italy, q.v.)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandEdit
Physical featuresEdit
LakesEdit
Mountains and HillsEdit
RiversEdit
MiscellaneousEdit
Divisions and TownsEdit
England and WalesEdit
DivisionsEdit
IslandsEdit
Towns, etc.Edit
ScotlandEdit
DivisionsEdit
IslandsEdit
Towns, etc.Edit
IrelandEdit
DivisionsEdit
IslandsEdit
Towns, etc.Edit
Ancient NamesEdit
AsiaEdit
Physical FeaturesEdit
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RiversEdit
MiscellaneousEdit
CountriesEdit
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India (with lesser Frontier States)Edit
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(See also Asia: Mountains, above). Where a district and town have the same name the article will be found under the list of towns.)
Towns, etc.Edit
Indo-China, FrenchEdit
JapanEdit
KoreaEdit
Malay ArchipelagoEdit
Malay PeninsulaEdit
PersiaEdit
DivisionsEdit
Towns, etc.Edit
Russia in AsiaEdit
DivisionsEdit
Towns, etc.Edit
SiamEdit
Turkey in AsiaEdit
DivisionsEdit
Towns, etc.Edit
(see also Asia: Ancient, below)
Ancient NamesEdit
AfricaEdit
Physical featuresEdit
DesertsEdit
LakesEdit
MountainsEdit
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MiscellaneousEdit
CountriesEdit
AbyssiniaEdit
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East AfricaEdit
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EgyptEdit
MoroccoEdit
South Africa (British)Edit
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- Barotse
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- Bechuanaland
- Blantyre
- Bloemfontein
- Boksburg
- Bulawayo
- Caledon
- Cape Colony
- Cape Town
- Colenso
- Constantia
- Cradock
- Cullinan
- Durban
- East London
- Ermelo
- Ficksburg
- Germiston
- Glen Grey
- Graaff Reinet
- Graham's Town
- Griqualand East
- Griqualand West
- Harrismith
- Heidelberg
- Jagersfontein
- Johannesburg
- Kaffraria
- Kimberley
- King William's Town
- Klerksdorp
- Kokstad
- Kroonstad
- Krugersdorp
- Kuruman
- Ladybrand
- Ladysmith
- Laing's Nek
- Lovedale
- Lydenburg
- Mafeking
- Maseru
- Middelburg
- Mossel Bay
- Natal
- Nylstroom
- Orange Free State
- Paarl
- Pietermaritzburg
- Pietersburg
- Port Elizabeth
- Potchefstroom
- Pretoria
- Queenstown
- Rhodesia
- Robben Island
- Rustenburg
- Shoshong
- Simon's Town
- Standerton
- Stellenbosch
- Swaziland
- Swellendam
- Tati
- Transkei
- Transvaal
- Uitenhage
- Ulundi
- Utrecht
- Volksrust
- Vryheid
- Wakkerstroom
- Walfish Bay
- Wepener
- Winburg
- Worcester
- Zeerust
- Zimbabwe
- Zoutpansberg
- Zululand
SudanEdit
Tripoli and TunisiaEdit
West AfricaEdit
(French West Africa to German South-West Africa)
Ancient NamesEdit
AmericaEdit
Physical featuresEdit
LakesEdit
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MiscellaneousEdit
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Canada and NewfoundlandEdit
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United StatesEdit
States, etc.Edit
Towns, etc.Edit
British HondurasEdit
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HondurasEdit
MexicoEdit
DivisionsEdit
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NicaraguaEdit
PanamaEdit
SalvadorEdit
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ArgentinaEdit
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BoliviaEdit
BrazilEdit
DivisionsEdit
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ChileEdit
DivisionsEdit
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ColombiaEdit
EquadorEdit
GuianaEdit
ParaguayEdit
PeruEdit
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Towns, etc.Edit
UruguayEdit
VenezuelaEdit
DivisionsEdit
TownsEdit
AustralasiaEdit
Physical FeaturesEdit
AustraliaEdit
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New ZealandEdit
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Indian OceanEdit
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Pacific OceanEdit
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Polar regionsEdit
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BiographiesEdit
GeologyEdit
HistoryEdit
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GeneralEdit
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- Feudalism
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- Mercantile System
- Monarchy
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- Republic
- Serfdom
- Slavery
- Sovereignty
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Heraldry, Titles, and OfficesEdit
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EuropeEdit
GeneralEdit
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Austria-HungaryEdit
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BiographiesEdit
Balkan PeninsulaEdit
Subjects and BiographiesEdit
BelgiumEdit
(See Netherlands)
FranceEdit
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BiographiesEdit
FranksEdit
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Subjects and Biographies (to A.D. 843)Edit
GermanyEdit
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BiographiesEdit
GreeceEdit
SubjectsEdit
Biographies (ancient)Edit
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HollandEdit
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BiographiesEdit
ItalyEdit
SubjectsEdit
(See also Papacy, Rome and Roman Empire, Later)
BiographiesEdit
MacedoniaEdit
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PapacyEdit
Subjects and BiographiesEdit
PolandEdit
Subjects and BiographiesEdit
PortugalEdit
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Rome (to A.D. 476)Edit
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BiographiesEdit
Roman Empire, LaterEdit
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RumaniaEdit
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RussiaEdit
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JewsEdit
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- Bead
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- Bodkin
- Bottle
- Briquette
- Brush
- Button
- Candle
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- Catechu or Cutch
- Catgut
- Chafing-dish
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- Coke
- Colza Oil
- Comb
- Cooperage
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- Dyeing
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- Elemi
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- Fat Feather
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- Flowers, Artificial
- Foil
- Folio
- Foolscap
- Fur
- Gas
- Gem, Artificial
- Glair
- Glass
- Glue
- Gluten
- Goldbeating
- Grain Trade
- Granaries
- Hodden
- Horn
- Horse-shoes
- Ink
- Isinglass
- Ivory
- Jananning
- Lapolin
- Lapidary
- Laundry
- Leather
- Leather, Artificial
- Linseed
- Liquorice
- Lithography
- Logwood
- Mastic
- Match
- Maulstick
- Mirror
- Mucilage
- Musk
- Nail
- Natural Gas
- Needle
- Oakum
- Octavo
- Oils
- Oven
- Paper
- Papier Mache
- Paraffin
- Parchment
- Pearl
- Peat
- Pen
- Pencil
- Perfumery
- Petroleun
- Pickle
- Pigments
- Pin
- Pipe
- Pisciculture
- Plated Ware
- Plumbing
- Process
- Putty
- Quaich or Quaigh
- Quarto
- Quire
- Rape Oil
- Ream
- Resin
- Rice Paper
- Rope and Rope-making
- Saddlery and Harness
- Seal-fisheries
- Sealing-wax
- Seine
- Sepia
- Shagreen
- Sheffield Plate
- Shoe
- Soap
- Spermaceti
- Starch
- Stationery
- Stirrup
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- Tailor
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- Umbrella
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BiographiesEdit
- Abel, Niels Henrik
- Agnesi, Maria Gaetana
- Aguillon (Aguilonius), François D'
- Allen or Alleyn, Thomas
- Anderson, Alexander
- Anthemius
- Apollonius of Perga
- Archimedes
- Autolycus of Pitane
- Babbage, Charles
- Baldi, Bernardino
- Barlow, Peter
- Barrow, Isaac
- Bernoulli (family)
- Boole, George
- Borda, Jean Charles
- Boscovich, Roger Joseph
- Bouguer, Pierre
- Bowditch, Nathaniel
- Briggs, Henry
- Buxton, Jedediah
- Camus, Charles Étienne Louis
- Cardan, Girolamo
- Castel, Louis Bertrand
- Cauchy, Augustin Louis
- Cayley, Arthur
- Charles, Jacques Alexandre César
- Chebichev, Pafnutiy Lvovich
- Clairault, or Clairaut, Alexis Claude
- Clifford, William Kingdon
- Cocker, Edward
- Colburn, Zerah
- Cotes, Roger
- Cremona, Luigi
- Demoivre, Abraham
- De Morgan, Augustus
- Diophantus of Alexandria
- Ditton, Humphry
- Emerson, William
- Euclid
- Euler, Leonhard
- Fermat, Pierre de
- Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph
- Frisi, Paolo
- Galloway, Thomas
- Galois, Évariste
- Gauss, Karl Friedrich
- Greaves, John
- Gregory (family)
- Gregory, Olinthus Gilbert
- Gunter, Edmund
- Hachette, Jean Nicolas Pierre
- Hamilton, Sir William Rowan
- Harriot or Harriot, Thomas
- Hero of Alexandria
- Hutton, Charles
- Huygens, Christiaan
- Inaudi, Jacques
- Ivory, Sir James
- Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jacob
- Kircher, Athanasius
- Kovalevsky, Sophie
- Lagrange, Joseph Louis
- Landen, John
- Laplace, Pierre Simon, Marquis de
- Lardner, Dionysius
- Legendre, Adrien Marie
- Leonardo of Pisa
- Leslie, Sir John
- Lie, Marius Sophus
- Lobachevskiy, Nicolas Ivanovich
- MacCullagh, James
- Maclaurin, Colin
- Mascheroni, Lorenzo
- Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de
- Mersenne, Marin
- Monge, Gaspard
- Montucla, Jean Étienne
- Murphy, Robert
- Napier, John
- Newton, Sir Isaac
- Nichomachus (of Gerass)
- Oughtred, William
- Pappus of Alexandria
- Peacock, George
- Peirce, Benjamin
- Pell, John
- Pfaff, Johann Friedrich
- Playfair, John
- Plücker, Julius
- Poinsot, Louis
- Poisson, Siméon Denis
- Poncelet, Jean Victor
- Price, Bartholomew
- Recorde, Robert
- Riccati, Jacopo Francesco, Count
- Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard
- Roberval, Gilles Personne de
- Robins, Benjamin
- Routh, Edward John
- Russell, John Scott
- Salmon, George
- Saunderson, or Sanderson, Nicholas
- Serenus of Antissa
- Simpson, Thomas
- Simson, Robert
- Smith, Henry John Stephen
- Smith, Robert
- Snell, Willebrord
- Spottiswoode, William
- Steiner, Jakob
- Stevinus, Simon
- Stirling, James
- Stokes, Sir George Gabriel
- Sturm, Jacques Charles François
- Sylvester, James Joseph
- Tartaglia, Niccolò
- Taylor, Brook
- Theodosius of Tripolis
- Thompson, Thomas Peronnet
- Todhunter, Isaac
- Vernier, Pierre
- Vieta (or Viète), François
- Wallace, William
- Wallis, John
Medical ScienceEdit
GeneralEdit
Anatomy and PhysiologyEdit
- Abdomen
- Adam's Apple
- Ala
- Alimentary Canal
- Animal Heat
- Ankle
- Apnoea
- Aponeurosis
- Apophysis
- Arm
- Arteries
- Articulation
- Arytenoid
- Bladder
- Blood
- Bone
- Brain
- Breast
- Cartilage
- Caul
- Climacteric
- Coelom, and Serous Membranes
- Colo
- Connective Tissues
- Diaphragm
- Digestive Organs
- Ductless Glands
- Ear
- Elbow
- Epithelial, Endothelial and Glandular Tissues
- Equilibrium
- Excretion
- Eye
- Face
- Fauces
- Fibrin
- Finger
- Foot
- Gall
- Hand
- Head
- Heart
- Heel
- Hip
- Hunger and Thirst
- Intestine
- Jaw
- Knee
- Leg
- Ligament
- Lip
- Liver
- Lobe
- Lung
- Lymph and Lymph Formation
- Lymphatic System
- Mannary Gland
- Matrix
- Mouth and Salivary Glands
- Muscle and Nerve
- Muscular System
- Navel
- Nerve
- Nervous System
- Nose
- Olfactory System
- Palate
- Pancreas
- Pelvis
- Perspiration
- Pharynx
- Phrenology
- Placenta
- Puberty
- Pulse
- Reproductive System
- Respiratory System
- Scalp
- Shoulder
- Sinew
- Skeleton
- Skin and Exoskeleton
- Skull
- Sleep
- Spinal Cord
- Spleen
- Stomach
- Sweetbread
- Sympathetic System
- Teeth
- Thorax
- Throat
- Tongue
- Urinary System
- Varicose Veins
- Vascular System
- Veins
- Voice
- Windpipe
- Wrist
Pathology, Therapeutics and SurgeryEdit
- Abortion
- Abscess
- Abscission
- Acne
- Acromegaly
- Actinomycosis (Streptotrichosis)
- Acupressure
- Acupuncture
- Addison's Disease
- Adenoids
- Aerotherapeutics
- Ague
- Albuminuria
- Alienist
- Amaurosis
- Amuck, Running
- Anaemia
- Anaesthesia and Anaesthetics
- Aneurysm, or Aneurism
- Angina Pectoris
- Ankylosis, or Anchylosis
- Ankylostomiasis or Anchylostomiasis
- Anodyne
- Antispetics
- Aphasia
- Aphemia
- Apoplexy
- Appendicitis
- Apyrexia
- Arthritis
- Ascites
- Asphyxia
- Asthma
- Athetosis
- Atrophy
- Auscultation
- Autopsy
- Bacteriology
- Baldness
- Balneotherapeutics
- Bedsore
- Beri-beri
- Bilharziosis
- Blackwater Fever
- Bladder and Prostate Diseases
- Blindness
- Blister
- Blood-letting
- Boil
- Bow-leg
- Bright's Disease
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchitis
- Bronchotomy
- Bunion
- Burns and Scalds
- Caesarean Section
- Caisson Disease
- Cancer or Carcinoma
- Carbuncle
- Catalepsy
- Catarrh
- Chicken-pox
- Chilblains
- Chirurgeon
- Cholera
- Cleft Palate and Hare-Lip
- Clinic
- Club-foot
- Colic
- Coma
- Constipation
- Convulsions
- Corn
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- Cramp
- Cretinism
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- Delirium
- Dengue
- Dentistry
- Diabetes
- Diaphoretics
- Diarrhoea
- Dietetics
- Dilatation
- Diphtheria
- Dipsomania
- Diuretics
- Dropsy
- Drunkenness
- Dysentery
- Dyspepsia
- Eczema
- Electrotherapeutics
- Elephantiasis
- Emetics
- Emphysema
- Empyema
- Enteritis
- Epilepsy
- Epistaxis
- Erysipelas
- Favus
- Fever
- Filariasis
- Fistula
- Food
- Frostbite
- Gangrene
- Gastric Ulcer
- Gastritis
- Goitre
- Gout
- Guinea-worm
- Gynaecology
- Haematocele
- Haemophilia
- Haemorrhage
- Haemorrhoids
- Hammer-toe
- Hay Fever or Summer Catarrh
- Hernia
- Herpes
- Homoeopathy
- Hydrocele
- Hydrocephalus
- Hydropathy
- Dydrophobia or Rabies
- Hypertrophy
- Hypnotism
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- Hysteria
- Icthyosis or Xeroderma
- Imbecile
- Infancy
- Influenza
- Insanity
- Insomnia
- Intestinal Obstruction
- Intoxication
- Jaundice
- Joints
- Kala-Azar
- Kidney Diseases
- Laryngitis
- Lead Poisoning
- Leontiasis Ossea
- Leprosy
- Lethargy
- Lichen
- Locomotor Ataxia
- Lumbago
- Lupus
- Malaria
- Malta (or Mediterranean) Fever
- Massago
- Measles
- Meniere Disease
- Meningitis
- Metabolic Diseases
- Mineral Waters
- Mortification
- Mumps
- Myelitis
- Myxoedema
- Naevus
- Narcotics
- Necrosis
- Nettlerash or Urticaria
- Neuralgia
- Neurasthenia
- Neuritis
- Neuropathology
- Nosology
- Nostalgia
- Nursing
- Nutrition
- Obstetrics
- Ophthalmology
- Ovariotomy
- Pain
- Paralysis or Palsy
- Paranoia
- Parasitic Diseases
- Pediculosis or Phthiriasis
- Pellagra
- Pemphigus
- Peritonitis
- Phagocytosis
- Pharyngitis
- Phlebitis
- Phthisis
- Pinto
- Pityriasis Versicolor
- Plague
- Pleurisy or Pleuritis
- Pneumonia
- Poison
- Polypus
- Poultice
- Prognosis
- Pruritus
- Psoriasis
- Psorospemiasis
- Ptomaine Poisoning
- Puerperal Fever
- Purpura
- Quinsy
- Raynaud's Disease
- Relapsing Fever
- Rheumatism
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Rickets
- Ringworm
- St Vitus' Dance or Chorea
- Scabies or Itch
- Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina
- Sciatica
- Scrofula or Scorbutus
- Sea-Sickness
- Seborrhoea
- Sepsis
- Shock or Collapse
- Skin Diseases
- Sleeping-sickness
- Smallpox
- Sneezing
- Somnambulism
- Sprue
- Stammering or Stutteting
- Starvation
- Stethoscope
- Sunstroke
- Surgical Instruments and Appliance
- Sweating-sickness
- Syncope
- Tetanus
- Tonsillitis
- Toxicology
- Tracheotomy
- Trachoma
- Trichinosis or Trichiniasis
- Tuberculosis
- Tumour
- Typhoid Fever
- Typhus Fever
- Ulcer
- Vegetarianism
- Venereal Diseases
- Vivisection
- Wart
- Whitlow
- Whooping-Cough
- Wound
- Wry-neck
- X Ray Treatment
- Yaws
- Yellow Fever
- Zymotic Diseases
PharmacologyEdit
(See also under Chemistry.)
Public HealthEdit
Veterinary ScienceEdit
BiographiesEdit
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GeneralEdit
Military Writers and EngineersEdit
Philosophy and PsychologyEdit
GeneralEdit
SubjectsEdit
- Absolute
- Absolutism
- Abstraction
- Academy, Greek
- Acatalepsy
- Accident
- Accidentalism
- Affection
- Aetiology
- A Fortiori
- Agglutination
- Agnoiology
- Agnosticism
- Alethiology
- Alexandrists
- Altruism
- Amphibology
- Analogy
- Analysis
- Antinomy
- Apodictic
- Apperception
- Apprehension
- A Priori
- Arabian Philosophy
- Association of Ideas
- Attention
- Automorphism
- Axiom
- Cambridge Platonists
- Cardinal Virtues
- Cartesianism
- Casuistry
- Category
- Causation
- Chaos
- Circulus in Probando
- Classification
- Cognition
- Conation
- Concept
- Conceptualism
- Concrete
- Condition
- Connotation
- Conscience
- Contradiction, Principle of
- Conversion
- Cosmogony
- Cynics
- Cyrenaics
- Deduction
- Definition
- Denotation
- Determinism
- Dialectic
- Dichotomy
- Dilemma
- Division
- Dream
- Dualism
- Duty
- Dysteleology
- Eclecticism
- Ecstasy
- Egoism
- Eleatic School
- Elis, Philosophical School of
- Emanation
- Empiricism
- Enthymeme
- Epistemology
- Eretrian School of Philosophy
- Esoteric
- Eudaemonism
- Extension
- Fallacy (logic)
- Fancy
- Fatalism
- Form
- Golden Rule
- Gymnosophists
- Hearing
- Hedonism
- Heteronomy
- Humanism
- Hylozoism
- Hypothesis
- Hysteron-proteron
- Idea
- Idealism
- Idiosyncrasy
- Imagination
- Imitation
- Immanence
- Immortality
- Individualism
- Induction
- Infinite
- Intellect
- Introspection
- Intuition
- Ionian School of Philosophy
- Instinct
- Laughter
- Libertarianism
- Logos
- Materialism
- Megarian School of Philosophy
- Meliorism
- Metempsychosis
- Microcosm
- Mnemonics
- Monad
- Monism
- Motive
- Mysticism
- Naturalism
- Necessity
- Neoplatonism
- Neo-Pythagoreanism
- Noümenon
- Object and Subject
- Objectivism
- Occasionalism
- Ontology
- Opinion
- Organon
- Oversoul
- Palingenesis
- Panentheism
- Panpsychism
- Parallelism, Psychophysical
- Parsimony, Law of
- Perception
- Peripatetics
- Personality
- Pessimism
- Petitio Principii
- Phenomenon
- Physiognomy
- Platonic Love
- Pleasure
- Pluralism
- Positivism
- Pragmatism
- Predicables
- Predication
- Pre-existence, Doctrine of
- Presentationism
- Probabilism
- Psychophysics
- Punishment
- Quintessence
- Rationalism
- Realism
- Reason
- Recept
- Relativity of Knowledge
- Reminiscence
- Retro-cognition
- Rigorism
- Royal Society, The
- Scepticism
- Scholasticism
- Secularism
- Self
- Sensationalism
- Smell
- Societies, Learned
- Solipsism
- Sophists
- Space and Time
- Spheres, Music of the
- Stoics
- Subjectivism
- Sublime
- Summum Bonum
- Syllogism
- Syncretism
- Synderesis
- Synechism
- Synthesis
- Taoism
- Taste
- Teleology
- Touch
- Transcendentalism
- Trilemma
- Trivium
- Utilitarianism
- Vision
- Weber's Law
- Will
BiographiesEdit
- Abauzit, Firmin
- Abelard, Peter
- Abraham Ibn Daud
- Achillini, Alessandro
- Adamson, Robert
- Adelard (or Æthelard)
- Aedesius
- Aenesidemus
- Aeschines
- Agricola, Rodolphus
- Agrippa
- Albertus Magnus
- Alcinous
- Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
- Alexander of Aphrodisias
- Alexander of Hales
- Algarotti, Francesco, Count
- Ammonius Hermiae
- Ammonius Saccas
- Anacharsis
- Anatoli, Jacob
- Anaxagoras
- Anaxarchus
Psychical Research and OccultismEdit
SubjectsEdit
- Apparitions
- Automatic Writing
- Automatism
- Bibliomancy
- Chiromancy
- Clairvoyance
- Cock Lane Ghost
- Crystal-gazing
- Death-warning
- Fire-walking
- Hallucination
- Hauntings
- Medium
- Odylic Force
- Palmistry
- Poltergeist
- Premonition
- Rosicrucianism
- Second Sight
- Spiritualism
- Subliminal Self
- Suggestion
- Table-turning
- Telepathy
- Trance
BiographiesEdit
PhysicsEdit
GeneralEdit
SoundEdit
LightEdit
- Aberration
- Absorption of Light
- Achromatism
- Actinometer
- Aperture
- Binocular Instrument
- Calorescence
- Camera Lucida
- Camera Obscura
- Caustic
- Cinematograph
- Colour
- Diffraction of Light
- Dispersion
- Fluorescence
- Heliostat
- Illumination
- Interference of Light
- Kaleidoscope
- Lantern
- Lens
- Magneto-Optics
- Microscope
- Mirror
- Objective or Object Glass
- Phosphorescence
- Photography
- Photometry
- Polarization of Light
- Reflection of Light
- Refraction
- Shadow
- Sky
- Spectacles
- Spectroscopy
- Speculum
- Stereoscope
- Sun Copying or Photo Copying
- Vision
HeatEdit
MagnetismEdit
ElectricityEdit
- Accumulator
- Amperemeter or Ammeter
- Armature
- Battery
- Conduction, Electric
- Dielectric
- Dynamo
- Earth Currents
- Electrical or Electrostatic Machine
- Electricity Supply
- Electric Waves
- Electrochemistry
- Electrokinetics
- Electrolysis
- Electromagnetism
- Electrometallurgy
- Electrometer
- Electron
- Electrophorus
- Electroplating
- Electroscope
- Electrostatics
- Electrotyping
- Fuze or Fuse
- Galvanometer
- Induction Coil
- Leyden Jar, or Condenser
- Lighting
- Lightning
- Lightning Conductors
- Meter, Electric
- Motors, Electric
- Ohmmeter
- Oscillograph
- Potentiometer
- Power Transmission
- Röntgen Rays
- Telegraph
- Telephone
- Thermoelectricity
- Transformers
- Vacuum Tube
- Voltmeter
- Wattmeter
- Wheatstone's Bridge
Weights and MeasuresEdit
BiographiesEdit
- Aepinus, Franz Ulrich Theodor
- Aldini, Giovanni
- Alhazen
- Amontons, Guillaume
- Ampère, André Marie
- Anderson, John
- Angström, Anders Jonas
- Arago, Dominique François Jean
- Arnaldus de Villa Nova
- Arrhenius, Svante August
- Atwood, George
- Avogadro, Amedeo, Conte di Quaregna
- Ayrton, William Edward
- Bache, Alexander Dallas
- Baker, Henry
- Beccaria, Giovanni Battista
- Becquerel (family)
- Bell, Alexander Graham
- Biot, Jean Baptiste
- Boyle, Robert
- Brewster, Sir David
- Cagniard de la Tour, Charles
- Canton, John
- Carnot, Sadi Nicolas Léonhard
- Cavallo, Tiberius
- Claudet, Antoine François Jean
- Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emmanuel
- Cornu, Marie Alfred
- Coulomb, Charles Augustin
- Curie, Pierre
- Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé
- Dallmeyer, John Henry
- De la Rive, Auguste Arthur
- Della Porta, Giovanni Battista
- Dollond, John
- Duhamel, Jean Baptiste
- Erman, Paul
- Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel
- Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis
- Forbes, James David
- Forman, Simon
- Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon
- Fraunhofer, Joseph von
- Fresnel, Augustin Jean
- Geissler, Heinrich
- Gibbs, Josiah Willard
- Gilbert, William
- Glaisher, James
- Gray, Elisha
- Grove, Sir William Robert
- Guericke, Otto von
- Harris, Sir William Snow
- Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
- Henry, Joseph
- Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf
- Hooke, Robert
- Hughes, David Edward
- Jablochkov, Paul
- Joule, James Prescott
- Kater, Henry
- Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
- Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert
- König, Karl Rudolph
- Kundt, August Adolph Eduard Eberhard
- Lambert, Johann Heinrich
- Langley, Samuel Pierpont
- Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
- Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph
- Malus, Étienne Louis
- Mariotte, Edme
- Marum, Martin van
- Matteucci, Carlo
- Maxwell, James Clerk
- Mayer, Julius Robert
- Melloni, Macedonio
- Michell, John
- Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
- Musschenbroek, Pieter van
- Neckam, Alexander
- Nicholson, William
- Nicol, William
- Niepce, Joseph Nicéphore
- Nobili, Leopoldo
- Nollet, Jean Antoine
- Ohm, Georg Simon
- Olmsted, Denison
- Papin, Denis
- Peltier, Jean Charles Athanase
- Plateau, Joseph Antoine Ferdinand
- Poggendorff, Johann Christian
- Prévost, Pierre
- Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron
- Röntgen, Wilhelm Konrad
- Rowland, Henry Augustus
- Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count
- Saussure, Horace Bénédict de
- Siemens, Ernst Werner von
- Stewart, Balfour
- Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson
- Tait, Peter Guthrie
- Talbot, William Henry Fox
- Thomson, James
- Torricelli, Evangelista
- Tyndall, John
- Volta, Alessandro
- Weber, Wilhelm Eduard
- Wheatstone, Sir Charles
- Wiedemann, Gustav Heinrich
- Young, Thomas
Religion and TheologyEdit
GeneralEdit
Doctrines and TermsEdit
GeneralEdit
- Absolution
- Amen
- Anathema
- Antichrist
- Antitype
- Apostasy
- Atonement
- Attrition
- Autocephalous
- Baptism
- Benediction
- Catechism
- Catechumen
- Catholio
- Celibacy
- Chapel
- Chiliasm
- Church
- Churching of Women
- Commendation
- Confession
- Confirmation
- Confirmation of Bishops
- Congregation
- Convent
- Conversion
- Creatianism and Traducianism
- Creeds
- Diocese
- Enthusiasm
- Establishment
- Eucharist
- Excommunication
- Extreme Unction
- Fasting
- Glory
- Grace
- Hermeneutics
- Hermit
- Holy
- Homiletics
- Homily
- Hospice
- Interim
- Myrtyr
- Millenium
- Mortuary
- Necrology
- Order, Holy
- Pastoral Letter
- Patron
- Prayers for the Dead
- Preaching
- Predestination
- Procession
- Recusant
- Regular
- Relics
- Reverend
- Sacerdotalism
- Sacrament
- Sect
- Secular
- See
- Sin
- Sponsor
- Syncellus
- Synod
- Theocrary
- Tonsure
- Venerable
- Worship
History of ChristianityEdit
Church History to the Council of TrentEdit
SubjectsEdit
(See also Reformation)
HeresiesEdit
SaintsEdit
(For Apostles see § Bible)
Christian DocumentsEdit
Religious OrdersEdit
Biographies (see also § Saints)Edit
Roman Catholic ChurchEdit
SubjectsEdit
BiographiesEdit
Eastern ChurchesEdit
SubjectsEdit
BiographiesEdit
ReformationEdit
SubjectsEdit
BiographiesEdit
Church of EnglandEdit
(Including the Episcopal Church of Scotland)
SubjectsEdit
BiographiesEdit
Modern Continental Churches (Reformed)Edit
SubjectsEdit
BiographiesEdit
Free ChurchesEdit
(British Empire and United States, including the Established Church of Scotland)
SubjectsEdit
BiographiesEdit
Ecclesiastical OfficesEdit
EcclesiologyEdit
(Liturgy, Ritual and Vestments)
(See also Art § Architecture)
Ecclesiastical SeasonsEdit
Bible and Biblical CriticismEdit
SubjectsEdit
(See also Geography § Palestine)
CriticsEdit
JudaismEdit
(See also History, § Jews, Bible and Biblical Criticism, and Literature, § Hebrew)
BiographiesEdit
Mahommedan ReligionEdit
BiographiesEdit
Comparative Religion and FolkloreEdit
(See also Anthropology and Ethnology, and the sections on religion in the articles China, Egypt, India, Japan, etc.)
GeneralEdit
Greek and RomanEdit
- Abaris
- Abundantia
- Acheron
- Actaeon
- Adytum
- Aeacus
- Aegis
- Artemis
- Arval Brothers
- Atlas
- Augeas
- Bacchanalia
- Cabeiri
- Callisto
- Camillus and Camilla
- Carnea
- Castor and Pollux
- Ceres
- Charon
- Chimaera
- Chiron
- Cocytus
- Concordia
- Consus
- Corybantes
- Cupid
- Cybele
- Cyclops
- Danae
- Danaus
- Daphnephoria
- Delia
- Delphinia
- Demeter
- Demetria
- Deucalion
- Diana
- Dione
- Dionysia
- Dionysus
- Dirce
- Dryades
- Echo
- Egeria
- Elysium
- Epimenides
- Epona
- Erebus
- Erechtheus
- Erigone
- Erinyes
- Eris
- Eros
- Eumenades
- Eumolpus
- Europa
- Eurydice
- Fama
- Fate
- Fauna
- Faunus
- Flora
- Fortuna
- Furies
- Ganymede
- Genius
- Geryon
- Glaucus
- Gorgon
- Graces, The
- Harmonia
- Harpies
- Harpocrates
- Haruspices
- Hebe
- Hecate
- Hecatomb
- Hephaestas
- Hera
- Hercules
- Hermae
- Hermaphroditus
- Hermes
- Hesperides
- Hesperus
- Hestia
- Hippocrene
- Horae
- Hyacinthus
- Hydra
- Hygieia
- Hylas
- Hymen
- Hyperion
- Iapetus
- Idas
- Io
- Iris
- Ixion
- Janus
- Juno
- Jupiter
- Juturna
- Juventas
- Lamia
- Lapithae
- Lares
- Latona
- Laverna
- Lectisternium
- Lethe
- Liber and Libera
- Libertina
- Linus
- Lucina
- Lupercalia
- Lycaon
- Maenads
- Mala
- Mānes
- Mars
- Marsyas
- Mater Matuta
- Medea
- Melampus
- Melicertes
- Memnon
- Mercury
- Minerva
- Minos
- Minotaur
- Mopsus
- Morpheus
- Muses, The
- Mystery
- Narcissus
- Necessitas
- Nectar
- Nemensis
- Nemorensis Lacus
- Neptune
- Nikë
- Nymphs
- Oceanus
- Olen
- Onomacritus
- Orion
- Orpheus
- Oscilla
- Pacan
- Pales
- Palladium
- Pan
- Panathenaca
- Pandora
- Pegasus
- Penates
- Phaëthon
- Pherecydes of Leros
- Phorcys
- Picus
- Pietas
- Pleiades
- Pluto
- Plutus
- Pomona
- Pontifex
- Portunus
- Poseidon
- Priapus
- Prometheus
- Proserpine
- Proteus
- Psyche
- Pyanepsia
- Python
- Quirinus
- Rhadamanthus
- Rhea
- Sabazius
- Salii
- Salmoneus
- Salus
- Saturn
- Satyrs
- Scylla and Charybdis
- Secular Games
- Selēnē
- Semele
- Sēmbō Sancus
- Sibyls
- Silenus
- Silvanus
- Sirens
- Sisyphus
- Somnes
- Spes
- Styx
- Summānus
- Tages
- Tantalus
- Tartarus
- Terminus
- Thargelia
- Themis
- Theseus
- Thesmorphoria
- Thetis
- Thyrsus
- Titans
- Tithonus
- Triptolemus
- Triton
- Typhon
- Uranus
- Venus
- Vertumnus
- Vesta
- Virbius
- Vulcan
- Zephyrus
- Zeus
Asia, Asia Minor and EgyptEdit
- Abhidhamma
- Adad
- Adonis
- Agni
- Ahriman
- Ammon
- Ananda
- Anu
- Anubis
- Apis
- Apsaras
- Arjuna
- Arya Samaj
- Asmodeus
- Assur
- Astarte
- Asvins
- Atargatis
- Atharva Veda
- Attis
- Avadana
- Avatar
- Baal
- Babylonian and Assyrian Religion
- Baetylus
- Barlaam and Josaphat
- Bel
- Bes or Bēsas
- Bhima
- Bonze
- Bo-tree
- Brahman
- Brāhmana
- Brahmanism
- Brahma Samaj
- Brihaspati
- Bubastis
- Buddha
- Buddhaghosa
- Buddhism
- Buto
- Confucius
- Criobolium
- Curetes
- Dagon
- Deva
- Devadatta
- Dhammapāla
- Draupadi
- Druses
- Durga or Devi
- Dusserah
- Ea
- Eabani
- Egbo
- Ereshkigal
- Fakir
- Fum
- Gahanbar
- Gandharva
- Ganesa
- Genna
- Gilgamesh, Epic of
- Gran'th
- Great Mother of the Gods
- Gula
- Hadad
- Hanuman
- Harischandra
- Hermes Trismegistus
- Hinduism
- Horus
- Indra
- Ishtar
- Isis
- Jains
- Jātaka
- Jinn
- Joss
- Jugernaut
- Juju
- Jumala
- Kabir
- Kali
- Kama or Kamadeva
- Karma
- Kartikeya
- Keshub Chunder Sen
- Kilin or Ch‘-i-lin
- Krishna
- Kshattriya
- Kubera
- Lakshmi
- Lamaism
- Lao-Tsze
- Lilith
- Lingayat
- Lumbini
- Lung (dragon)
- Mahayana
- Maitreya
- Manetho
- Manu
- Marduk
- Maruts
- Medhankara
- Mencius
- Mithras
- Nagarjuna
- Nebo
- Nergal
- Nikāya
- Ninib
- Nirvana
- Nusku
- Oannes
- Ormazd
- Osiris
- Parsees
- Peepul
- Phoenix
- Praying-Wheel
- Rawendis
- Re
- Rudra
- Sadhu
- Sankara Acharya
- Sarasuarti
- Sargon
- Sariputta
- Sāsana Vamsa
- Serapis
- Shamanism
- Shamash
- Sikhism
- Sin (moon-god)
- Siva
- Soma
- Sphinx
- Suttee
- Taurobolium
- Thoth
- Usas
- Varuna
- Vishnu
- Yama
- Yezidis
- Yogi
- Zalmoxis
- Zend-Avesta
- Zoroaster
European and AmericanEdit
- Avalon
- Balder
- Banshee
- Barghest
- Befana
- Belit
- Beltane
- Berchta
- Berserker
- Bifrost
- Bragi
- Builders' Rites
- Buri
- Druidism
- Eden Hall, Luck of
- Elf
- Erlkönig
- Fafnir
- Fairy
- Fenrir
- Flying Dutchman
- Frey
- Freya
- Frigg
- Gabriel Hounds
- Ghost Dance
- Gimli
- Gjallar
- Gladsheim
- Gnomes
- Hallowe’en
- Heimdal
- Hel, or Hela
- Herne the Hunter
- Hertha or Herthus
- Hiawatha
- Huitzilopochtli
- Hulda
- Idun or Iduna
- Irmin
- Kraken
- Lorelei
- Need-Fire
- Nixie
- Norns
- Oberon
- Odin
- Ogre
- Smohalla
- Thor
- Tyr
- Valhalla
- Valkyries
- Warlock
- Wayland the Smith
- Woden
- Yggdrasil
Sports and PastimesEdit
- Ace
- Acrobat
- Acrostic
- All Fours
- All-Round Athletics
- Amateur
- Ambigu
- Anagram
- Angling
- Apperley, Charles James
- Archery
- Athlete
- Auction Pitch
- Aunt Sally
- Automatism
- Baccarat
- Backgammon
- Badminton
- Bagatelle
- Ball
- Bank
- Barley-Break
- Barnum, Phineas Taylor
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Basset or Bassette
- Battledore and Shuttlecock
- Battue
- Bear-Baiting and Bull-Baiting
- Beggar-my-Neighbour
- Bet and Betting
- Bézique
- Billiards
- Birdsnesting
- Biribi
- Bisque
- Blind Hookey
- Blindman’s-buff
- Blondin
- Blow-gun
- Bolas
- Boston
- Botori
- Bouillotte
- Bowling
- Bowls
- Boxing
- Brag
- Bridge
- Bull-fighting
- Caber Tossing
- Caestus
- Calabresella
- Camping Out
- Cane-fencing
- Canoe
- Cards, Playing
- Casino
- Catch the Ten
- Charade
- Checkers
- Chess
- Children’s Games
- Circus
- Coasting
- Cock-fighting
- Commerce
- Conjuring
- Consolation
- Conundrum
- Cottabus
- Coursing
- Crambo
- Cribbage
- Cricket
- Croquet
- Curling
- Cycling
- Decoy
- Deuce
- Diabolo
- Dice
- Discus
- Doll
- Dominoes
- Dover, Robert
- Draughts
- Driving
- Écarté
- Epée-de-combat
- Euchre
- Falconry
- Fantan
- Faro
- Fast and Loose
- Fencing
- Fives
- Foil-Fencing
- Football
- Game
- Game Laws
- Games, Classical
- Gaming and wagering
- Gladiators
- Go or Go-bang
- Golf
- Goose, Game of
- Gordon-Cumming, R. G.
- Grace, William Gilbert
- Guide
- Gully, John
- Gymkhana
- Gymnastics and Gymnasium
- Halma
- Hammer Throwing
- Handicap
- Hazard
- Hearts
- Hockey
- Hop-scotch
- Horsemanship
- Horse-Racing
- Hoyle, Edmund or Edmond
- Hunting
- Hurdle Racing
- Ice-yachting
- Jockey
- Jones, Henry (“Cavendish”)
- Jugler
- Ju-jutsu or Jiu-jitsu
- Jumping
- Katterfelto
- Keddah
- Kite-flying
- Knucklebones
- Lacrosse
- La Grâce
- Lansquenet
- Lasso
- Lawn-Tennis
- Legerdemain
- Long Fives
- Loo
- Lotto
- Marbles
- Matador
- Matrimony
- Milo
- Model-Yachting
- Mora or Morra.
- Morphy, Paul Charles
- Mountaineering
- Mummers
- Napoleon
- Naumachia
- Nine Men’s Morris
- Old Maid
- Ombre
- Pachisi
- Palaestra
- Pall-Mall
- Pallone
- Patience
- Petola
- Petits-Chavaux
- Philately
- Philidor, François André Danican
- Pigeon-Flying
- Pigeon-shooting
- Pig-Sticking or Hog-Hunting
- Ping-Pong or Table Tennis
- Pinochle or Penuchle
- Piquet
- Poker
- Pole-Vaulting
- Polo
- Ponte
- Pope-Joan
- Popinjay
- Post and Pair
- Potato-Race
- Prestidigitation
- Primero
- Prisoners’ Base
- Pugilism
- Pushball
- Putting the Shot (or Weight)
- Puzzle
- Quarter-staff
- Quintain
- Quoits
- Racquets
- Raffle
- Rebus
- Riddles
- Riding
- Ringgoal
- Roller-skating
- Rope-Walking
- Roulette
- Rounders
- Rowing
- Running
- Sabre-Fencing
- St John, Charles William George
- Salta
- Sanger, John
- Sayers, Tom
- Scull
- Shikar
- Shio-ghi
- Shooting
- Shuffle-board
- Single-stick
- Skat
- Skating
- Ski
- Skittles
- Snip Snap Snorum
- Solotaire
- Solo or Solo whist
- Speculation
- Spelling Bee
- Spillikins
- Spoil-Five
- Sport
- Sports, The Book of
- Squails
- Stadium
- Steeple-Chase
- Stické
- Stilts
- Stool-Ball
- Swimming
- Switchback
- Tamburello
- Tarok
- Teetotum
- Tennis
- Tip-cat
- Tobogganing
- Top
- Toreador
- Tournament
- Toy
- Trap
- Trap-Ball or Knur and Spell
- Trapeze or Trapese
- Trente et Quarante
- Tug-of-War
- Tussaud, Marie
- Ventriloquism
- Vingt-et-Un
- Vint
- Walking-races
- Walsh, John Henry
- Wapenshaw
- Water Polo
- Webb, Matthew
- Weight-Throwing
- Whist
- Wrestling
- Yachting
MiscellaneousEdit
ChronologyEdit
- Ab
- Aeon
- Almanac
- April
- August
- Bissext
- Calendar
- Centenary
- Century
- Day
- Decade
- December
- Dial and Dialling
- Fasti
- February
- Friday
- Hejira or Hegira
- Hindu Chronology
- Hour
- Intercalary
- January
- July
- June
- Lady Day
- Leap Year
- March
- May
- Monday
- Month
- Morning
- Night
- Noon
- November
- October
- Olympiad
- Saros
- Season
- September
- Scothic Period
- Sunday or the Lord’s Day
- Time, Measurement of
- Week
- Yule
Costume and ToiletEdit
- Aigrette
- Aiguillette
- Apron
- Backscratcher
- Baldric
- Bandana, or Bandanna
- Beard
- Beaver
- Blouse
- Bonnet
- Braid
- Brummell, G. B. (Beau)
- Burnous
- Buskin
- Caftan
- Chape
- Chatelaine
- Cravat
- Crinoline
- Cuff
- Cummerbund
- Depilatory
- Dolman
- D’Orsay, Count
- Doublet
- Dress
- Fathingale
- Frock
- Gaberdine or Gabardine
- Girdle
- Glove
- Golosh or Gaslosh
- Gown
- Haik
- Hat
- Hood
- Hose
- Jerkin
- Kaross
- Kilt
- Kohl
- Mantle
- Mitten
- Mocassin
- Moustache
- Muff
- Nash, R. (Beau)
- Parasol
- Patten
- Pelisse
- Peruke
- Petticoat
- Plaid
- Pomade
- Pomander
- Poncho
- Puttee or Puttie
- Queue
- Robes
- Sandal
- Scarf
- Shampoo
- Shirt
- Sleeve
- Snow-Shoes
- Sombrero
- Sporran
- Stocking
- Tabard
- Tarbrush
- Towel
- Trousers
- Tunic
- Turban
- Veil
- Whisker
- Wig
Manners and CustomsEdit
- Abraham-men
- Alme, or Almai
- Applause
- April Fools’ Day or All Fools’ Day
- Arvals, Arvels or Arthels
- Ass, Feast of the
- Banners, Feast of
- Bartholomew Fair
- Bauble
- Bazaar
- Beacon
- Bean-feast
- Bear-leader
- Bedesman or Beadsman
- Betrothal
- Blackball
- Blood-money
- Bluestocking
- Bonfire
- Booth
- Bounds, Beating the
- Boy-Bishop
- Bravo
- Bride
- Cadger
- Calumet
- Cannibalism
- Catafalque
- Cateran
- Cenotaph
- Champion
- Chapelle Ardente
- Chaperon
- Charivari
- Cheering
- Chibouque or Chibouk
- Chopsticks
- Cicisbeo
- Coffin
- Cogers Hall
- Commemoration
- Commers
- Coronach
- Cramp-rings
- Cross-Roads, Burial at
- Curfew
- Dandy
- Dinner
- Dole
- Ducking and Cucking Stools
- Duenna
- Embalming
- First-foot
- Fools, Feast of
- Geisha
- Handfasting
- Handset
- Hari-Kiri
- Harvest
- Health
- Hearse
- Heart-burial
- Henchman
- Hock-tide
- Hodening
- Hogmanay
- Honeymoon
- Hookah
- Horndance
- Kief, Kef or Keif
- Kiss
- Kowtow or Koton
- Lammas
- Levee
- Lich-Gate
- Lord Mayor’s Day
- Luncheon
- Mascot
- Matachines
- Misrule, Lord of
- Month’s Mind
- Motley
- Morning
- Mummy
- Nargile or Nargilch
- Nautch
- Odalisque
- Pall
- Picnic
- Posey
- Potlatch
- Pujah or Pooja
- Purdah
- Retinue
- Salaam
- Salutaion
- Scalping
- Slogan
- Snuff
- Symposium
- Tarring and Feathering
- Tent
- Tomahawk
- Vendetta
- Visiting Cards
- Waits
- Wake
- Wampum
- Wassail
- Wayzgoose
- Wedding
- Wigwam
- Wreath