In Hydrostatics and Pneumatics 659 Optics--Discoveries of Kepler 660 Invention of the Telescope 660 Of the Microscope 660 Antonio de Dominis 660 Dioptrics of Descartes--Law of Refraction 661 Disputed by Fermat 661 Curves of Descartes 661 Theory of the Rainbow 661 CHAPTER XXVI. HISTORY OF SOME OTHER PROVINCES OF LITERATURE FROM 1600 TO 1650. Aldrovandus 662 Clusius 662 Rio and Marcgraf 662 Jonston 662 Fabricius on the Language of Brutes 663 Botany--Columna 664 John and Gaspar Bauhin 664 Parkinson 664 Valves of the Veins discovered 665 Theory of the Blood’s Circulation 665 Sometimes ascribed to Servetus 665 To Columbus 666 And to Cæsalpin 666 Generally unknown before Harvey 667 His Discovery 667 Unjustly doubted to be Original 667 Harvey’s Treatise on Generation 668 Lacteals discovered by Asellius 668 Optical Discoveries of Scheiner 669 Medicine--Van Helmont 669 Diffusion of Hebrew 669 Language not studied in the best method 669 The Buxtorfs 670 Vowel Points rejected by Cappel 670 Hebrew Scholars 671 Chaldee and Syriac 671 Arabic 671 Erpenius 671 Golius 671 Other Eastern Languages 672 Purchas’s Pilgrim 672