- Benzenberg’s experiment, 388.
- Bernoulli, Daniel, planetary orbits, 250;
- resisting media and projectiles, 467;
- vibrations, 476.
- Bernoulli, James, 154;
- numbers of, 124;
- Protean verses, 175;
- De Arte Conjectandi quoted, 176, 183;
- on figurate numbers, 183;
- theorem of, 209;
- false solution in probability, 213;
- solution of inverse problem, 261.
- Bessel, F. W., 375;
- law of error, 384;
- formula for periodic variations, 488;
- use of hypothesis, 506;
- solar parallax, 560–2;
- ellipticity of earth, 565;
- pendulum experiments, 604.
- Bias, 393, 402.
- Biela’s comet, 746.
- Bifurcate classification, 694.
- Binomial theorem, 190;
- discovery of, 231.
- Biot, on tension of vapour, 500.
- Blind experiments, 433.
- Bode’s law, 147, 257, 660.
- Boethius, quoted, 33;
- on kinds of mean, 360.
- Boiling point, 442, 659.
- Bonnet’s theory of reproduction, 621.
- Boole, George, on sign of equality, 15;
- his calculus of logic, 23, 113, 634;
- on logical terms, 33;
- law of commutativeness, 35;
- use of some, 41–2;
- disjunctive propositions, 70;
- Venn on his method, 90;
- Laws of Thought, 155;
- statistical conditions, 168;
- propositions numerically definite, 172;
- on probability, 199;
- general method in probabilities, 206;
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