Kant, Emmanuel, "on the theory and structure of the heavens," 50, 65; earthquake at Lisbon, 210.
Kelihau on the ancient sea-line of the coast of Spitzbergen, 296.
Kepler on the distances of stars, 88; on the density of the planets, 93; law of progression, 95; on the number of comets, 99; shooting stars, 113; on the obscuration of the sun's disk, 132; on the radiations of heat from the fixed stars, 136; on a solar atmosphere, 139.
Kloden, shooting stars, 119, 124.
Knowledge, superficial, evils of, 43.
Krug of Nidda, temperature of the Geyser and the Strokr intermittent fountains, 222.
Krusenstern, Admiral, on the train of a fire-ball, 114.
Kuopho, a Chinese physicist on the attraction of the magnet, and of amber, 168.
Kupffer, magnetic stations in Northern Asia, 191.
Lamanon, 187.