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BAAS (British Association for the Advancement of Science)
Babbage, Charles; calculating engine of; Ninth Bridgewater Treatise of
Bache, Alexander Dallas; as Coast Survey superintendent; Henry’s friendship with; quackery and
Bache, Nancy
Bache, Richard, Jr.
Bache, Sophia
Bachelard, Gaston
Bachmann, J.
Bacon, Delia S.
Bacon, Francis
Bacon, Roger
balloon flights; Poe’s hoax
Baltimore, Md.; view of, by Bartlett
Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad
Baltimore Saturday Visiter
Balzac, Honoré de
Bancroft, George
Bank of the United States
Banneker, Benjamin
Baptists
Barbour, James
Barnaby Rudge (Dickens)
Barnum, P. T.
Barrett, Elizabeth
Bartlett, William H.
Bartram, William
Baudelaire, Charles
beauty
belief and doubt
“Bells, The”
Benjamin, Park
Bennett, W. J.
Bentham, Jeremy
“Berenice”
Bergmann, Carl
Bergson, Henri
Bible; Genesis; Revelation
Biddle, Nicholas; Andalusia estate of
Bielfeld, Baron
Big and Little (Franco)
big bang theory
Birkbeck, George
Bisco, John
“Black Cat, The”
Blackwoods Magazine
Blaettermann, George
Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de
Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne)
Blitz, Signor
bluestockings
Blythe, Calvin
Bohr, Niels
boilers
Bolaño, Roberto
Bolívar, Simón
Bonaparte, Marie
Bond, W. C.
Booksellers’ Banquet
Borges, Jorge Luis
Boscovich, Roger
Boston, Mass.
Boston Daily Times
Boston Evening Transcript
Boston Journal
Boston Literary Gazette
Boston Lyceum
Boston Notion
Botanic Garden, The (Darwin)
botany
Bowditch, Nathaniel
Bowen, Francis
Boyè, Martin Hans
Brady, Mathew
Brahe, Tycho; “Stella Nova” of
Bransby, John
Brewster, David
Bridgewater, Earl of
“Bridgewater Lectures” (Lardner)
Bridgewater Treatises; Babbage’s Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
Briggs, Charles (Harry Franco)
Brisbane, Albert
Britain, Poe’s time in
British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS)
Broadway Journal, The; closing of; Poe’s editorship and ownership of
Bronson, Mary
Brook Farm
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooks, Nathan
Brougham, Lord
Brown, Thomas
Browne, Thomas
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Brownson, Orestes
Bryant, William Cullen
Buckland, William
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
Burke, Edmund
Burton, William
Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine
Bush, George
Butler, Clement Moore
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Cabinet Cyclopaedia (Lardner)
calculating engine; see also Babbage, Charles
calculus of probabilities; see also chance
Caleb Williams (Godwin)
Calhoun, John
California gold rush
Calvin, Jean, and Puritanism
camera obscura
Campbell, John
Cappi, Alberto
Carey, Henry C.
Carey, Mathew
Carlyle, Jane
Carlyle, Thomas
Casket, The
“Cask of Amontillado, The”
Cass, Lewis
Catlin, George
cause and effect
Caxtons, The (Bulwer-Lytton)
Central High School
Cervantes, Miguel de
Chalmers, Thomas
Chambers, Robert; Explanations; Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal
Champollion, Jean-François
chance
Channing, William Ellery
chaos
Chapin, Henry
“Chapter on Science and Art, A”
charlatanism and quackery; Bache and; distinguishing true science from; Henry and; see also Barnum, P. T.; belief and doubt; hoaxes; Lardner, Dionysius
Cheever, George
chemistry
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
chess
chess-playing automaton (the Turk)
chiasmus
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron)
Chivers, Thomas Holley
Choate, Rufus
cholera epidemic
Christianity; Protestantism; Second Great Awakening; science and; see also Calvin, Jean, and Puritanism; theology
Cincinnati Observatory
“Circles” (Emerson)
Civil War
Clark, John
Clark, Lewis Gaylord
Clark, William, see Lewis and Clark expedition
Clark, Willis Gaylord
Clarke, Joseph
Clarke, Thomas C.
Clarke’s Academy
Clay, Cassius
Clay, Henry; American System of
Clemm, Maria “Muddy” (aunt)
Clemm, Virginia, see Poe, Virginia Eliza Clemm
Clemm, William
climate change
Clinton Hall
clocks and clockwork; see also automaton; Newton, Isaac; orrery; “Tell-Tale Heart, The”
coal; see also steam engines
Cole, Thomas, Voyage of Life
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Lyrical Ballads
“Coliseum, The”
“Colloquy of Monos and Una, The”
Collyer, Robert
colonies, American
Colton, George
Columbian Magazine, The
Columbia Spy, The
Combe, George
comets; of 1843; Encke’s; Halley’s
computers
Comte, Auguste
Conchologist’s First Book, The
conchology
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (De Quincey)
Congress, U.S.
Connubia florum
Conrad, Joseph
consciousness
Constant, Benjamin
Constitution, U.S.
Constitution of Man, The (Combe)
“Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, The”
Conversations on Some of the Old Poets (Lowell)
Cooke, G.
Cooke, Philip Pendleton
Cooper, James Fenimore
copyright
Cornelius, Robert
Cortázar, Julio
cosmogony; big bang theory; see also Eureka: An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe; Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
cosmology; of Poe, see Eureka: An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe
cosmopolitanism
Cosmos (Humboldt)
Cousin, Victor
Crania Americana (Morton)
creation; in Genesis; see also cosmogony; cosmology
creativity; see also Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; imagination
crime
Crosse, Andrew
cryptography and cryptology
Cushing, Caleb
Cuvier, Georges
Daguerre, Louis
daguerreotypes; of Academy of Natural Sciences; of James Russell Lowell; of Margaret Fuller; of Martin Hans Boyè; of moon; of Pennsylvania Avenue; of Poe; Poe on; of P. T. Barnum and Charles Stratton; of Robert Cornelius; of Sarah Helen Whitman
Daily Chronicle
Daily Forum
Daily Journal
Dallas, Alexander
Dallas, George
Dalton, James
Dalton, John
Dana, James
Dandridge, Dabney
Darley, Felix
Darwin, Charles
Darwin, Erasmus
Davis, Andrew Jackson
Davis, Jefferson
Davy, Humphry
Dayan, Joan (Colin)
de Broglie, Louis
“Decided Loss, A”
Declaration of Independence
deduction
Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe
deism
de la Rive, Auguste
della Porta, Giambattista
democracy
Democratic Party; see also Jackson, Andrew
Democratic Review
Democritus
De Quincey, Thomas
Descartes, René
“Descent into the Maelström, A”
de Staël, Germaine
“Destruction of the World, The”; see also “Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, The”
detective fiction; Dupin character in; “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”; “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt”; “The Purloined Letter”; see also Doyle, Arthur Conan
Dial, The
Dick, Thomas
Dickens, Charles; Barnaby Rudge; portrait of
Dickerson, Mahlon
didacticism
“Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences”
dietetics
“Discoveries in the Moon” hoax
Disraeli, Benjamin
Dods, John Bovee
“Doings of Gotham” column
Dollar Newspaper, The
“Domain of Arnheim, The”; see also art; “Landscape Garden, The”
Don Quixote (Cervantes)
“Doomed City, The”
“Doom of the Drinker, The” (English)
Doppelgänger; see also doubling and mirroring
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
doubling and mirroring; see also chiasmus; symmetry
Douglass, Frederick
Dow, Jesse Erskine
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Draper, John W.
Drayton, William
“Dream-Land”
“Dream Within a Dream, A”
drugs; laudanum; opium
Du Commun, Joseph
Dufief, Nicolas Gouin
Duncan, Henry
Dupin, André-Marie-Jean-Jacques
Dupin, C. Auguste (fictional character)
Dupin, Charles
Duyckinck, Evert
earth; age of; history of; hollow earth theory; magnetic field of
Eastern State Penitentiary
Easton, Hosea
Eaton, John
École Polytechnique
ecology and environment; climate change
Eddington, Arthur
Edinburgh Journal of Science, The
Edinburgh Review, The
education; of workers
effect; see also electricity; light; magnetism; media; optical effects and devices; sensation; unity of effect
“1844” (English)
Einstein, Albert
“Eldorado”
electricity; electromagnetism; in Eureka
Elements of Conchology, The (Brown)
Elements of Universal Erudition, The (Bielfeld)
“Eleonora”
Eliot, T. S.
Ellet, Elizabeth
Elliotson, John
Elliott, Jesse
Ellis, Charles
Ellis, Joseph
Ellis, Powhatan
Emerson, Ralph Waldo; see also Dial, The; transcendentalism
Encke, Johann Franz
Encke’s comet
engineering: Army Corps of Engineers; Poe’s training in
Enlightenment
English, Thomas Dunn
“Eolian Harp, The” (Coleridge)
Epicurus; see also Lucretius
Episcopal Monumental Church
Erie Canal
Erkkila, Betsy
Espy, James
Esquirol, Étienne
ether
Etherology (Grimes)
Euclid
“Eulalie”
Eureka: An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe (“The Universe” lecture); cyclical plot in
“Eureka” poetry machine
Europe
evangelicals
Eveleth, George
Evening Mirror
“Evening Star”
evil
evolution; kaleidoscopic; see also Darwin, Charles; Darwin, Erasmus; Eureka: An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe; Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
experiments
Exploring Expedition, see United States Exploring Expedition
Fable for Critics, A (Lowell)
“Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The”
“Fall of the House of Usher, The”
Falstaff Hotel
Family Magazine
Faraday, Michael
Farmers’ Cabinet, The
Fay, Theodore
fear
Federalist Party
Feejee Mermaid
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
Ficino, Marsilio
fiction; detective, see detective fiction; plot in; science fiction; silver-fork novels
fifth element; see also ether
Flag of Our Union, The
Flowers of Evil, The (Baudelaire)
fluid mechanics
Flying Dutchman
Folio Club, see Tales of the Folio Club
“For Annie”
Fordham, Bronx
Fort Independence
Fort Monroe
Fort Moultrie
fossils; see also geology
Fourier, Charles
Fourierists
Fowler, Lorenzo
Fowler, Orson
France; École Polytechnique in
Francis, Alexander
Francis, John
Franco, Harry, see Briggs, Charles
Frankenstein (Shelley)
Franklin, Benjamin
Franklin Institute
frauds; see also charlatanism and quackery; hoaxes
Freud, Sigmund
Friedman, Alexander
Fuller, Hiram
Fuller, Margaret; daguerreotype of
Galápagos Islands
Galileo Galilei
Gall, Franz
Gallatin, Albert
Galle, Johann
Galt, William
Garrison, William Lloyd
Gay-Lussac, Joseph
Genesis, book of
Gentleman’s Magazine, The
geology
Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (Buckland)
geometry
German idealism; see also Kant, Immanuel; Schelling, Friedrich
German literature; see also Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; Hoffmann, E. T. A.; Schiller, Friedrich
Gift, The
Gimbel, Richard
Girard, Stephen
Girard College
Glanvill, Joseph
Gliddon, George
God; as creator; as destroyer; in Eureka; evil and; in “Mesmeric Revelation”; originality and
Goddard, Paul Beck
Godey’s
Godwin, William
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
“Gold-Bug, The”
Good, John Mason
gothic literature
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gove, Mary
Gowans, William
Graham, George Rex
Graham, Sylvester
Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine; biography of Poe in
Graves, Bully
gravity
Gray, Asa
Great Exhibitions
Great Instauration, The (Bacon)
Greeley, Horace
Grimes, Stanley
Grimké, Angelina
Griswold, Rufus; “Memoir” of Poe by; Poe’s death and estate and
grotesque
Hale, Sarah Josepha
Halleck, Fitz-Greene
Halley’s Comet
“Hall of Fantasy, The” (Hawthorne)
hallucinations
Hamilton, Alexander
Harbinger, The
Hare, Robert
Harper & Brothers
Harrison, Edward
Harrison, William Henry
Harvard College
Hassler, Ferdinand
“Haunted Palace, The”
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hazlitt, William
Heaviside, Mary
Hegel, G. W. F.
Heisenberg, Werner
Henry, Harriet
Henry, Joseph; Bache’s friendship with; quackery and; as Smithsonian director
Herring, Henry
Herron, James
Herschel, John
Herschel, William
Heth, Joice
Hewitt, Mary
Highsmith, Patricia
Hill, James
Hirst, Henry
History and Philosophy of Animal Magnetism, The
Hitchcock, Edward
hoaxes; balloon flight; chess-playing automaton, see chess-playing automaton; “Discoveries in the Moon”; “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”; Feejee Mermaid; “The Philosophy of Composition” as; see also Barnum, P. T.; charlatanism and quackery
Hoffman, Charles Fenno
Hoffman, Daniel
Hoffmann, E. T. A.
hollow earth theory
Holmes, Lucy
Home Journal, The
“Hop-Frog, or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs”
Hopkins, John H., Jr.
Hopkinson, Joseph
Horne, Richard
horror genre; see also arabesque; gothic literature
House, Colonel
“How to Write a Blackwood Article”
Human Magnetism (Newnham)
“Humble-Bee, The” (Emerson)
Humboldt, Alexander von; Cosmos
Humboldt, Wilhelm von
Humbugs of New-York (Reese)
Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine
Huysmans, J. K.
Illustrated London News, The
imagination; analysis and; fancy versus
“Imitation”
“Imp of the Perverse, The”
Incidents of Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land (Stephens)
Index
induction; see also reasoning
Industrial Revolution
industry
infinity
influence of Poe
Introductory Lecture to a Course of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy (Draper)
intuition; see also abduction
