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Menelaus, 55; ref. to, 57, 157.

Mercator, G., 313.

Mercator, N., 197; ref. to, 220.

Méré, 182.

Mersenne, 180, 191.

Mertens, 336, 367.

Meteorology, 384–386.

Method of characteristics, 297.

Method of exhaustion, 28; ref. to, 33, 36, 42, 169.

Metius, 154.

Meunier, 314.

Meyer, A., 340, 341.

Meyer, G. F., 334.

Meyer, O. E., 382, 392, 402.

Méziriac, 179; ref. to, 265.

Michelson, 394.

Middle Ages, 117–137.

Midorge, 174.

Minchin, 381.

Minding, 314.

Minkowsky, 370.

Mittag-Leffler, 359.

Möbius, 294; ref. to, 293, 320, 321, 366, 375, 377.

Modern Europe, 138 et seq.

Modular equations, 329, 353.

Modular functions, 354.

Mohammed ben Musa Hovarezmi, 106; ref. to, 107, 110, 114, 125, 127.

Mohr, 300.

Moigno, 334.

Moivre, de, 245.

Mollweide, 366.

Moments in fluxionary calculus, 205, 206.

Monge, 286–288; ref. to, 248, 259, 282, 293, 300, 314, 341.

Montmort, de, 240.

Montucla, X., 172.

Moon. See Astronomy.

Moore, 330.

Moors, 115, 116, 125.

Moral expectation, 239.

Morley, 362.

Moschopulus, 135.

Motion, laws of, 183, 188, 213.

Mouton, 219.

Muir, XII., 325.

Müller, X.

Müller, J. See Regiomontanus.

Multi-constancy, 390, 391.

Multiplication of series, 335, 336.

Musa ben Sakir, 108.

Musical proportion, 8.

Mydorge, 177.

 

Nachreiner, 325.

Nägelbach, 324.

Napier, J., 162, 163; ref. to, 156, 161, 164, 165.

Napier, M., X.

Napier's rule of circular parts, 165.

Nasir Eddin, 114.

Nautical almanac, United States, 376.

Navier, 387; ref. to, 382, 390.

Nebular hypothesis, 274.

Negative quantities, 93, 152, 187, 256, 372. See Algebra.

Negative roots, 93, 112, 146, 149, 152, 166. See Algebra.

Neil, 190; ref. to, 198.

Neocleides, 33.

Neptune, discovery of, 375.

Nesselmann, 76.

Netto, 330.

Neumann, C., 375; ref. to, 309, 315, 393.

Neumann, F. E., 398; ref. to, 309, 312, 390, 392, 396, 401.

Newcomb, 376; ref. to, 306, 307, 392.

Newton, 201–218; ref. to, 4, 50, 60, 147, 173, 186, 191, 192, 195, 200, 238, 243, 244, 252, 254, 257, 258, 262, 268, 282, 285, 290, 297, 302, 317, 330, 334, 372, 380, 386.

Newton, controversy with Leibniz, 227–233.

Newton's discovery of binomial theorem, 195, 196.

Newton's discovery of universal gravitation, 213.

Newton's parallelogram, 217.

Newton's Principia, 191, 208, 212–215, 229, 233, 242.

Nicolai, 366.

Nicole, 240.

Nicolo of Brescia. See Tartaglia.

Nicomachus, 72; ref. to, 58, 81.

Nicomedes, 50.

Nieuwentyt, 235.

Nines, casting out the, 106.

Niven, 396.