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Voice, Slavery, and Race in
Seventeenth-Century Florence
Voice, Slavery, and Race
in Seventeenth-Century
Florence
E M I LY W I L B OU R N E
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers
the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education
by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University
Press in the UK and certain other countries.
OUP gratefully acknowledges support from the Margarita M. Hanson Fund of the
American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197646915.001.0001
In memoriam
Roma Carmel Hoskin Cresp (July 12, 1929–August 10, 2022)
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xiii
Notes on Sources xv
Prologo xvii
Introduction 1
AC T I 41
Scene 1. Songs to Entertain Foreign Royalty 43
Scene 2. Comic Songs Imitating Foreign Voices 64
Scene 3. Music all’Usanza Loro (Performed in a Foreign Way) 84
Scene 4. “Turkish Music” in Italy 104
Scene 5. Trumpets and Drums Played by Enslaved Musicians 120
Scene 6. Scholarly Transcriptions of Foreign Musical Sounds 135
Scene 7. Music Proper to Enslaved Singers 146
Intermezzo Primo: Thinking from Enslaved Lives 162
AC T I I 169
Scene 8. Introducing Giovannino Buonaccorsi 171
Scene 9. Buonaccorsi Sings on the Florentine Stage 193
Scene 10. Buonaccorsi as Court Jester 208
Scene 11. Buonaccorsi as a Black Gypsy 232
Scene 12. Buonaccorsi as a Soprano 238
Scene 13. Buonaccorsi Sings on the Venetian Stage 254
viii Contents
The writing of books requires time, resources, access to archives and sources,
reliable childcare, and a legion of friends and accomplices to cheer the spirits,
read drafts, make food, make art, listen to complaints, and help in all the
ways that human beings need one another every day. To finish a book during
a pandemic is a rather forceful reminder of how important, how precarious,
and how mutually dependent we are on one another. This book would not
exist if the bulk of my research had not happened in the before times, when
international travel and archive access were a question of schedules and
travel budgets, not of closed borders and contagion avoidance. Likewise, the
final writing process of this book would not—could not—have happened if
the public schools had not reopened, welcoming my (grateful) children to a
safe place outside the home for several hours most days of the week. In the
placid, quiet hours of their absence, I managed to finally get this book done,
though I am most grateful for the noisy, companionable hours of their pres-
ence. In academic acknowledgments, it is traditional to thank one’s imme-
diate family last; however, under current circumstance, the last needs to be
first. Luki, Anastasia, Rex: you are a shining, powerful, energizing joy. I never
thought that we would spend quite as much time together, just us four, as we
have the last few years, but what a delight to know that my most trenchant
critics, biggest advocates, and three dearest people in the world are one and
the same; to know that my three nearest and dearest make entertaining and
caring companions, even under long, drawn-out, and trying circumstances.
I love each of you—so much—and I couldn’t have done this, or much else, to
be honest, without you.
Professionally and personally, the last two years have been long and
lonely: as of January 2022, I have yet to return to the physical classroom;
conference after conference has postponed or “moved” online; and so many
people have left New York that at times, our busy, vibrant city has seemed like
a ghost town. I have missed the presence of friends, colleagues, and students
and the serendipity of chance interactions. I miss the way ideas bounce in
space and am heartily sick of Zoom anything. I therefore want to celebrate
those who have managed to be present, even in absence; those who mailed
x Acknowledgments
coffee, wine, or cards or picked up the phone; those who visited on my stoop;
those who sat with me at outdoor concerts or in cold, outdoor coffee shops,
walked briskly round the block or the park or the Chelsea piers, or knitted
in solidarity while seated six feet apart on the stairs. Here—in a jumble of
family, friends, colleagues, students, and those border crossers who fit more
than one category—are those who have gotten me through: María Edurne
Zuazu (cited first, so that the Z doesn’t make her last); Gael Cresp; Stephen
Wilbourne; Elizabeth Wilbourne; Rebecca Wilbourne; Yun Emily Wang;
Suzanne G. Cusick; Karen Henson and Anne Stone (the best of friends
and best of colleagues); Elizabeth Fleming; Elizabeth Weinfield; Elizabeth
Clayton (the Elizabeths in my life are multiplying); Sara James; LJ Jellinek;
Terese Wadden; Francesca Fantappiè; Nanika Coors; Serena Parker (those
birthday balloons make me smile every time I think of them); Teddy Hunter;
Greg Costanzo; Marsha Stephanie Blake; Michael Stevens; Amy Brosius; my
AMS mentees Daniel Castro Pantoja, Anne Levitsky, Samantha Ege, and
Alecia Barbour; Laura, Kelly, Jasper, and Piper Moffat; Kevin Ferguson (and
his car); my summer boot camp writing group Yun Emily Wang (again),
Iantheia Calhoun, and Clara Hunter Latham; Michelle Yom; Samuel Teeple;
Chelsea Lane; Ana Beatriz Mujica Lafuente; Kristopher Konigin; Tod
Hedrick; Jennifer Roderer (those fruit cakes!); and of course, my wild visitor
Cooper.
I want to thank, too, all those whom I have missed during lockdown but
were vibrant parts of my life in the before times: everyone at conferences who
has questioned or prodded me on parts of the argument given here, those
whose brilliance and whose company lights up the AMS, and the many
members of my department whose presence enlivens the corridors and
classrooms of the Aaron Copland School of Music and the Graduate Center.
In particular, thanks to my I Tatti cohort and those in the Acoustemologies
project (Patricia Akimie, Olivia Bloechl, Ireri Chavez Barcenas, Suzanne
G. Cusick, Glenda Goodman, Lester Hu, Danielle Skeehan, Nina Treadwell,
Jane Tylus). Kate van Orden, Bonnie Gordon, Martha Feldman, and Suzanne
G. Cusick: you are shining lights of scholarship and inspiration; I wouldn’t
think about the seventeenth century and musical sound the way I do if I hadn’t
encountered your writings, nor would I think as coherently or have made it
this far without your constructive criticism and your support. Thanks, too, to
the graduate students in my doctoral seminars, “Critical Approaches to Race
and Musicology” (Spring 2019) and “Early Modern Voice” (Spring 2021);
your provocations and your enthusiasms have shaped and fueled this project
Acknowledgments xi
For libraries and archives, the RISM (Répertoire International des Sources
Musicales) sigla have been used where possible; where RISM sigla do not
exist, abbreviations have been constructed using the sigla as models.
Notes on Sources
The musical examples used in this book are transcribed from contempo-
rary sources, whether manuscript or early printed edition. With very few
exceptions, original note values and barring have been maintained.
Where Italian lyrics, play texts, or archival sources are cited, I have
maintained the spelling and punctuation of the original text. Where
abbreviations are expanded for clarity, the added letters are rendered in
italics.
Sua Altezza si contenta che si battezzino, ma sappino che restano in
ogni modo stiavi.
1 Jesse M. Locker, Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 2015), 75. Shelia Barker is an outlier, interpreting the work as an allegory of religious conflict
and female political power reflecting the role of Henrietta Maria (wife of Charles I) at the English
court; see Shelia Barker, Artemisia Gentileschi (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2022), 107–115.
xviii Prologo
2 I am grateful to Stefan Wolohojian for access to the object file at the Metropolitan Museum and to
Shelia Barker for discussing the pentimenti over drinks at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence.
3 Locker, Artemisia Gentileschi, 73– 83. Locker also mentions the influence of the commedia
dell’arte in Jesse M. Locker, “Artemisia Gentileschi: The Literary Formation of an Unlearned Artist,”
in Artemisia Gentileschi: Interpreting New Evidence, Assessing New Attributions, ed. Shelia Barker
(Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), 89–101.
4 I have written elsewhere about Gentileschi’s depictions of Andreini, though I did not discuss this
painting of Esther. See Emily Wilbourne, “A Question of Character: Virginia Ramponi Andreini and
Artemisia Gentileschi,” Italian Studies 71, no. 3 (2016): 335–355.
5 On the prevalence of ephebic heroes in Italian literature and drama and their representation
by castrati on the operatic stage, see Roger Freitas, “The Eroticism of Emasculation: Confronting
the Baroque Body of the Castrato,” Journal of Musicology 20, no. 2 (2003): 196–249; Roger Freitas,
Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009).
Prologo xix
and possession, see Amy Brosius, “‘Il Suon, lo Sguardo, il Canto’: The Function of Portraits of Mid-
Seventeenth-Century Virtuose In Rome,” Italian Studies 63, no. 1 (2013): 17–39.
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Pepys, a. 422.
Perrier, a. 348.
Peter of Apono, a. 226.
Peter Bungo, a. 217.
Peter Damien, a. 231.
Peter the Lombard, a. 231.
Peter de Vineis, a. 237.
Petit, b. 149, 187.
Petrarch, a. 237.
Philip, Dr. Wilson, b. 454.
Phillips, William, b. 325, 343, 525.
Philolaus, a. 259.
Photius, a. 208.
Piazzi, a. 447, 485.
Picard, a. 404, 464, 470; b. 33.
Piccolomini, a. 336.
Pictet, b. 168.
Picus of Mirandula, a. 226, 238.
Plana, a. 372.
Playfair, a. 423.
Pliny, a. 150, 187, 219; b. 316, 359, 364.
Plotinus, a. 207, 213.
Plunier, b. 380.
Plutarch, a. 77, 187.
Poisson, a. 372, 377; b. 40, 43, 182, 208, 222.
Polemarchus, a. 141, 142.
Poncelet, a. 350.
Pond, a. 477.
Pontanus, Jovianus, b. 458.
Pontécoulant, a. 372.
Pope, a. 427.
Porphyry, a. 205, 207.
Posidonius, a. 169.
Potter, Mr. Richard, b. 126, 130.
Powell, Prof., b. 128, 130, 154.
Prevost, Pierre, b. 143.
Prevost, Constant, b. 589.
Prichard, Dr., b. 500, 565. 30
Priestley, b. 271, 273, 279.
Proclus, a. 204, 207, 214, 217, 222.
Prony, a. 350; b. 174.
Proust, b. 267.
Prout, Dr., b. 289, 454.
Psellus, a. 208.
Ptolemy a. 149, &c.; b. 26
Ptolemy Euergetes, a. 155.
Purbach, a. 299.
Pythagoras, a. 65, 78, 127, 217.
Pytheas, a. 162.
Raleigh, b. 378.
Ramsden, a. 471.
Ramus, a. 237, 301.
Raspe, b. 514, 516.
Ray, b. 384, 422.
Raymund Lully, a. 226.
Reaumur, b. 509.
Recchi, b. 379.
Redi, b. 475.
Reichenbach, a. 472.
Reinhold, a. 269.
Rennie, Mr. George, a. 350.
Rheede, b. 379.
Rheticus, a. 266, 269.
Riccioli, a. 288, 341.
Richman, b. 142, 199.
Richter, b. 286.
Riffault, b. 304.
Riolan, b. 448.
Rivinus, b. 386.
Rivius, a. 250, 326.
Robert Grostête, a. 198, 226.
Robert of Lorraine, a. 198.
Robert Marsh, a. 199.
Roberval, b. 33.
Robins, a. 342.
Robinson, Dr., a. 477.
Robison, a. 169. 173, 206.
Roger Bacon, a. 199, 226, 244.
Rohault, a. 391, 423.
Romé de Lisle, b. 318, 319, 320, 324, 328.
Römer, a. 464, 480; b. 33.
Rondelet, b. 421.
Roscoe, b. 409.
Ross, Sir John, b. 219.
Rothman, a. 264.
Rouelle, b. 512, 515.
Rousseau, b. 401.
Rudberg, b. 127.
Ruellius, b. 368.
Rufus, b. 441.
Rumphe, b. 379.
Saluces, a. 376.
Salusbury, a. 276.
Salviani, b. 421
Santbach, a. 325.
Santorini, b. 462.
Saron, a. 446.
Savart, b. 40, 44, 245.
Savile, a. 205.
Saussure, b. 177, 513.
Sauveur, b. 30, 37.
Scheele, b. 271.
Schelling, b. 63.
Schlottheim, b. 514, 519.
Schmidt, b. 557.
Schomberg, Cardinal, a. 267.
Schweigger, b. 251.
Schwerd, b. 125.
Scilla, b. 508.
Scot, Michael, b. 367.
Scrope, Mr. Poulett, b. 550.
Sedgwick, Professor, b. 533, 538.
Sedillot, M., a. 179.
Seebeck, Dr., b. 75, 81, 252.
Segner, a. 375.
Seneca, a. 168, 259, 346.
Sergius, a. 209.
Servetus, b. 446.
Sextus Empiricus, a. 193.
S’Gravesande, a. 361.
Sharpe, b. 174.
Sherard, b. 379.
Simon of Genoa, b. 367.
Simplicius, a. 204, 206.
Sloane, b. 380.
Smith, Mr. Archibald, b. 130.
Smith, Sir James Edward, b. 403.
Smith, William, b. 515, 521.
Snell, b. 56, 57.
Socrates, b. 442.
Solomon, a. 227; b. 361. 31
Sorge, b. 38.
Sosigenes, a. 118, 168.
Southern, b. 174.
Sowerby, b. 519.
Spallanzani, b. 454.
Spix, b. 477.
Sprengel, b. 473.
Stahl, b. 268.
Stancari, b. 29.
Steno, b. 317, 507, 512.
Stephanus, b. 445.
Stevinus, a. 317, 336, 345, 357.
Stillingfleet, b. 403.
Stobæus, a. 208.
Stokes, Mr. C. b. 578.
Strabo, a. 203; b. 363, 587.
Strachey, b. 511.
Stukeley, b. 511.
Svanberg, b. 149.
Surian, b. 380.
Sylvester II. (Pope), a. 198, 227.
Sylvius, b. 263, 445, 446.
Symmer, b. 202.
Syncellus, a. 117.
Synesius, a. 166.
Tacitus, a. 220.
Tartalea, b. 315, 321, 325.
Tartini, b. 38.
Taylor, Brook, a. 359, 375; b. 31.
Tchong-Kang, a. 135, 162.
Telaugé, a. 217.
Tennemann, a. 228.
Thales, a. 56, 57, 63, 130.
Thebit, a. 226.
Thenard, b. 283.
Theodore Metochytes, a. 207.
Theodosius, a. 168.
Theophrastus, a. 205; b. 360, 362, 363, 370.
Thomas Aquinas, a. 226, 232, 237.
Thomson, Dr., b. 288, 289.
Tiberius, a. 220.
Timocharis, a. 144.
Torricelli, a. 336, 340, 347, 349.
Tournefort, b. 386, 458.
Tostatus, a. 197.
Totaril, Cardinal, a. 237.
Tragus, b. 368.
Trithemius, a. 228.
Troughton, a. 471.
Turner, b. 289.
Tycho Brahe, a. 297, 302; b. 55, 56.
Ubaldi, a. 313.
Ulugh Beigh, a. 178.
Ungern-Sternberg, Count, b. 550.
Uranus, a. 209.
Ure, Dr., b. 174.
Usteri, b. 473.
Wallerius, b. 319.
Wallis, a. 276, 341, 343, 387, 395; b. 37.
Walmesley, a. 440.
Warburton, a. 427.
Ward, Seth, a. 276, 396.
Wargentin, a. 441.
Watson, b. 195, 196, 202.
Weber, Ernest and William, b. 43.
Weiss, Prof., b. 326, 327.
Wells, b. 170, 177, 242.
Wenzel, b. 286. 32
Werner, b. 318, 337, 341, 514, 520, 521, 528, 584.
Wheatstone, b. 44.
Wheler, b. 379.
Whewell, a. 459; b. 330.
Whiston, a. 424.
Wilcke, b. 161, 198, 204.
Wilkins (Bishop), a. 275, 332, 395.
William of Hirsaugen, a. 198.
Willis, Rev. Robert, a. 246; b. 40, 47.
Willis, Thomas, b. 462, 463, 465.
Willoughby, b. 422, 423.
Wolf, Caspar Frederick, b. 472.
Wolff, a. 361; b. 165.
Wollaston, b. 68, 70, 71, 81, 288, 325.
Woodward, b. 508, 511, 584.
Wren, a. 276, 343, 395; b. 421.
Wright, a. 435.
Xanthus, b. 360.
Yates, b. 219.
Young, Thomas, a. 350; b. 43, 92, &c., 111, 112.
Zabarella, a. 235.
Zach, a. 448.
Ziegler, b. 174.
Zimmerman, b. 557.
INDEX OF TECHNICAL TERMS.
Aberration, a. 464.
Absolute and relative, a. 69.
Accelerating force, a. 326.
Achromatism, b. 66.
Acid, b. 263.
Acoustics, b. 24.
Acronycal rising and setting, a. 131.
Action and reaction, a. 343.
Acuation, b. 319.
Acumination, b. 319.
Acute harmonics, b. 37.
Ætiology, b. 499.
Affinity (in Chemistry), b. 265.
Affinity (in Natural History), b. 418.
Agitation, Centre of, a. 357.
Alidad, a. 181.
Alineations, a. 158, 161.
Alkali, b. 262.
Almacantars, a. 181.
Almagest, a. 170.
Almanac, a. 181.
Alphonsine tables, a. 178.
Alternation (of formations), b. 538.
Amphoteric silicides, b. 352.
Analogy (in Natural History), b. 418.
Analysis (chemical), b. 262.
Analysis (polar, of light), b. 80.
Angle of cleavage, b. 322.
Angle of incidence, b. 53.
Angle of reflection, b. 53.
Animal electricity, b. 238.
Anïon, b. 298.
Annus, a. 113.
Anode, b. 298.
Anomaly, a. 139, 141.
Antarctic circle, a. 131.
Antichthon, a. 82.
Anticlinal line, b. 537.
Antipodes, a. 196.
Apogee, a. 146.
Apotelesmatic astrology, a. 222.
Apothecæ, b. 366.
Appropriate ideas, a. 87.
Arctic circle, a. 131.
Armed magnets, b. 220.
Armil, a. 163.
Art and science, a. 239.
Articulata, b. 478.
Artificial magnets, b. 220.
Ascendant, a. 222.
Astrolabe, a. 164.
Atmology, b. 137, 163.
Atom, a. 78.
Atomic theory, b. 285.
Axes of symmetry (of crystals), b. 327.
Axis (of a mountain chain), b. 537.
Azimuth, a. 181.
Azot, b. 276.
Ballistics, a. 365.
Bases (of salts), b.264.
Basset (of strata), b. 512.
Beats, b. 29.
Dæmon, a. 214.
D’Alembert’s principle, a. 365.
Day, a. 112.
Decussation of nerves, b. 462.
Deduction, a. 48.
Deferent, a. 175.
Definite proportions (in Chemistry), b. 285.
Delta, b. 546.
Dephlogisticated air, b. 273.
Depolarization, b. 80.
Depolarization of heat, b. 155.
Depolarizing axes, b. 81.
Descriptive phrase (in Botany), b. 393.
Dew, b. 177.
Dichotomized, a. 137.
Diffraction, b. 79.
Dimorphism, b. 336.
Dioptra, a. 165.
Dipolarization, b. 80, 82.
Direct motion of planets, a. 138.
Discontinuous functions, b. 36.
Dispensatoria, b. 366.
Dispersion (of light), b. 126.
Doctrine of the sphere, a. 130.
Dogmatic school (of medicine), b. 439.
Double refraction, b. 69.
Eccentric, a. 145.
Echineis, a. 190.
Eclipses, a. 135.
Effective forces, a. 359.
Elective attraction, b. 265.
Electrical current, b. 242.
Electricity, b. 192.
Electrics, b. 194.
Electrical tension, b. 242.
Electro-dynamical, b. 246.
Electrodes, b. 298.
Electrolytes, b. 298.
Electro-magnetism, b. 243.
Elements (chemical), b. 309.
Elliptical polarization, b. 122, 123.
Empiric school (of medicine), b. 439.
Empyrean, a. 82.
Enneads, a. 213.
Entelechy, a. 74.
Eocene, b. 529.
Epicycles, a. 140, 145
Epochs, a. 46.
Equant, a. 175.
Equation of time, a. 159.
Equator, a. 130.
Equinoctial points, a. 131.
Escarpment, b. 537.
Evection, a. 171, 172.
Exchanges of heat, Theory of, b. 143.
Galvanism, b. 239.
Galvanometer, b. 251.
Ganglionic system, b. 463.
Ganglions, b. 463.
Generalization, a. 46.
Geocentric theory, a. 258.
Gnomon, a. 162.
Gnomonic, a. 137.
Golden number, a. 123.
Grave harmonics, b. 38.
Gravitate, a. 406.
Iatro-chemists, b. 263.
Ideas of the Platonists, a. 75.
Ilchanic tables, a. 178.
Impressed forces, a. 359.
Inclined plane, a. 313.
Induction (electric), b. 197.
Induction (logical), a. 43.
Inductive, a. 42.
Inductive, charts, a. 47.
Inductive, epochs, a. 46.
Inflammable air, b. 273.
Influences, a. 219.
Intercalation, a. 118.
Interferences, b. 86, 93.
Ionic school, a. 56.
Isomorphism, b. 334.
Isothermal lines, b. 146, 538.
Italic school, a. 56.
Lacteals, b. 453.
Latent heat, b. 160.
Laws of motion, first, a. 322.
Laws of motion, second, a. 330.
Laws of motion, third, a. 334.
Leap year, a. 118.
Leyden phial, b. 196.
Librations (of planets), a. 297.
Libration of Jupiter’s Satellites, a. 441.
Limb of an instrument, a. 162.
Longitudinal vibrations, b. 44.
Lunisolar year, a. 120.
Lymphatics, b. 453.
Nadir, a. 181.
Nebular hypothesis, b. 501.
Neoplatonists, a. 207.
Neutral axes, b. 81.
Neutralization (in Chemistry), b. 263.
Newton’s rings, b. 77, 124.
Newton’s scale of color, b. 77.
Nitrous air, b. 273.
Nomenclature, b. 389.
Nominalists, a. 238.
Non-electrics, b. 194.
Numbers of the Pythagoreans, a. 82, 216.
Nutation, a. 465.
Nycthemer, a. 159.
Octaëteris, a. 121.
Octants, a. 180.
Oolite, b. 529.
Optics, b. 51, &c.
Organical sciences, b. 435.
Organic molecules, b. 460.
Organization, b. 435.
Oscillation, Centre of, a. 356.
Outcrop (of strata), b. 512.
Oxide, b. 282.
Oxyd, b. 282.
Oxygen, b. 276.
Palæontology, b. 519.
Palætiological sciences, b. 499.
Parallactic instrument, a. 165.
Parallax, a. 159.
Percussion, Centre of, a. 357.
Perfectihabia, a. 75.
Perigee, a. 146.
Perijove, a. 446.
Periodical colors, b. 93.
Phases of the moon, a. 134.
Philolaic tables, a. 304.
Phlogisticated air, b. 273.
Phlogiston, b. 268.
Phthongometer, b. 47.
Physical optics, b. 52.
Piston, a. 346.
Plagihedral faces, b. 82.
Plane of maximum areas, b. 380.
Pleiocene, b. 529.
Plesiomorphous, b. 335.
Plumb line, a. 164.
Pneumatic trough, b. 273.
Poikilite, b. 530.
Polar decompositions, b. 293.
Polarization, b. 72, 74.
Polarization, Circular, b. 82, 119.
Polarization, Elliptical, b. 122, 124.
Polarization, Movable, b. 105.
Polarization, Plane, b. 120.
Polarization of heat, b. 153.
Poles (voltaic), b. 298.
Poles of maximum cold, b. 146.
Potential levers, a. 318.
Power and act, a. 74.
Precession of the equinoxes, a. 155.
Predicables, a. 205.
Predicaments, a. 206.
Preludes of epochs, a. 46.
Primary rocks, b. 513.
Primitive rocks, b. 513.
Primum calidum, a. 77.
Principal plane (of a rhomb), b. 73.
Principle of least action, a. 380.
Prosthapheresis, a. 146.
Provinces (of plants and animals), b. 562.
Prutenic tables, a. 270.
Pulses, b. 33.
Pyrites, b. 352.
Quadrant, a. 164
Quadrivium, a. 199.
Quiddity, a. 234. 37
Quinary division (in Natural History), b. 418.
Quintessence, a. 73.
Radiata, b. 478.
Radiation, b. 139.
Rays, b. 58.
Realists, a. 238.
Refraction, b. 54.
Refraction of heat, b. 155.
Remora, a. 190.
Resinous electricity, b. 195.
Rete mirabile, b. 463.
Retrograde motion of planets, a. 139.
Roman calendar, a. 123.
Rotatory vibrations, b. 44.
Rudolphine tables, a. 270, 302.
Saros, a. 136.
Scholastic philosophy, a. 230.
School philosophy, a. 50.
Science, a. 42.
Secondary rocks, b. 513.
Secondary mechanical sciences, b. 23.
Second law of motion, a. 330.
Seconds, a. 163.
Secular inequalities, a. 370.
Segregation, b. 558.
Seminal contagion, b. 459.
Seminal proportions, a. 79.
Sequels of epochs, a. 47.
Silicides, b. 352.
Silurian rocks, b. 530.
Simples, b. 367.
Sine, a. 181.
Solar heat, b. 145.
Solstitial points, a. 131.
Solution of water in air, b. 166.
Sothic period, a. 118.
Spagiric art, b. 262.
Specific heat, b. 159.
Sphere, a. 130.
Spontaneous generation, b. 457.
Statical electricity, b. 208.
Stationary periods, a. 48.
Stationary planets, a. 139.
Stations (of plants), b. 562.
Sympathetic sounds, b. 37.
Systematic Botany, b. 357.
Systematic Zoology, b. 412.
Systems of crystallization, b. 328.