- accuracy of, 303;
- units and standards of, 305;
- explained results of, 554;
- agreement of modes of, 564.
- Mediate statements, 144.
- Melodies, possible number of, 191.
- Melvill, Thomas, on the spectrum, 429.
- Membra dividentia, 68.
- Metals, probable character of new, 258;
- transparency, 548;
- classification, 675;
- density, 706.
- Method, indirect, 98;
- of avoidance of error, 340;
- differential, 344;
- correction, 346;
- compensation, 350;
- reversal, 354;
- means, 357;
- least squares, 377, 386, 393;
- variations, 439;
- graphical, 492;
- Baconian, 507.
- Meteoric streams, 372.
- Meteoric cycle, 537.
- Metre, 349;
- error of, 314.
- Metric system, 318, 323.
- Michell, speculations, 212;
- on double stars, 247;
- Pleiades, 248;
- torsion balance, 566.
- Middle term undistributed, 64.
- Mill, John Stuart, disjunctive propositions, 69;
- induction, 121, 594;
- music, 191;
- probability, 200–201, 222;
- supposed reform of logic, 227;
- deductive method, 265, 508;
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