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Index
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ABC of Relativity (Russell), 297
abstraction, 192, 195–99, 196, 219, 222, 230, 246, 305, 342n 195, 342n 198
acceleration, 93, 96, 209, 254–56
Aczel, Amir, 138n
Adler, Alfred W., 267
Agassiz, Louis, 128
Albert of Saxony, 202–3
alchemy, 6, 54–56
chemistry and, 55–56
Newton and, 48, 55–56, 72, 278
“philosopher’s stone,” 55, 252
Alfonso the Wise, 62
America’s founding fathers, 315–16
Anne, Queen of England, 262
Archimedes, 42, 187, 190, 252, 283n, 284
Aristotle, 45, 62, 92, 94, 96, 174, 189, 190
Earth as immobile, 98–99, 172, 174
Galileo refutes, 93, 172, 187, 188
worldview, 197–98
astrology, xv, 17, 64, 145, 146, 147, 156, 165, 227, 228
astronomy, xv, 89, 111, 112. See also moon; planets; stars; sun; universe
birth of modern, 156, 339n 145
Copernicus and, xiii, 97–102, 112
Galileo and, xiii, 102, 105–6, 112–13
gravitational theory and, 315
Kepler and, xiii, 145–61
Tycho Brahe and, 106–7, 106n, 159–61, 159n
Aubrey, John, 65n, 78n
Augustine, St., 63–64, 130, 130n
Bacon, Francis, 65, 65n, 144
Baker, Henry, 336n 120
Barrow, Isaac, 343n 226
Barzun, Jacques, 38
Beethoven, Ludwig von, 231
Bellarmine, Cardinal, 113
Biagioli, Mario, 334n 98
Bible
Boyle’s study of, 18
as code or cipher, 18, 35
creation, date of, 128
date of doomsday, 13–14, 14n, 18
earth-centered universe of, 97
fear of critical investigation and, 89
mysteries as divine, 63
Newton’s study of, 18, 35, 48, 231–32, 274, 311, 325n 18
binomial theorem, 228, 228n
Bohr, Niels, 229, 302, 349n 302
Bolyai, Johann, 39n
Boorstin, Daniel, 62, 260
Boyle, Robert, 4, 18, 30, 50, 51, 56, 68, 83, 242
applied technology and, 84
argument against secrecy, 67
dead men and hangings, 53, 54
experiment on pet dog, 80
experiments at the Royal Society, 59–60, 81
Boyle’s law, 56
Bronowski, Jacob, 125
Brown, Gregory, 346n 262
Bruno, Giordano, 314
Bunyan, John, 343n 226
Butler, Samuel, 86–87
calculus, 221–22, 223, 241–52
acceleration and, 254–56
derivation of word, 223
forerunners of, 226
impact of discoveries, 258
integration, 229
Leibniz and, xiv, 43–44, 47, 241–52, 268
Leibniz’s notations, 268–69, 268n
Newton and, xiv, 225–32, 241–52, 268, 269
Newton-Leibniz feud, xiv, 259–70
revelations of, 256–58
Cambridge, England
Newton in, xiv, 5, 28, 48, 241, 271, 272, 278–80, 290, 320
plague in 1665 and, 28, 226
Stourbridge Fair at, 226–27, 343n 226
Candide (Voltaire), 235
Cardano, Girolamo, 66–67
Caroline, Princess of Wales, 262, 263–65
Cartesian coordinates, 194, 341n 193
Cassirer, Ernst, 236
cat piano, 79, 79–80
Celestial Mechanics (Laplace), 317
chain of being, 121–23
Chandrasekhan, Subrahmanyan, 132–33, 230–31, 285, 318–19, 331n 73
Charles I, xiv, 15
Charles II, 8, 15, 17, 30, 32, 58
charters the Royal Society, 83
grisly interest in anatomy, 78–79
microscope and, 116
science and, 83–84
circle, 40, 40, 43, 101, 136, 163, 164n, 166, 191, 192
planetary orbits and, 100–101, 147, 147, 148, 149–50, 150, 163–64, 164, 172, 275
Clarke, Samuel, 264–65, 311–12
clockwork universe, xvii, 18, 182–83, 274, 310, 311–13, 316
Coga, Arthur, 60–61
Cohen, I. Bernard, 74, 299
comets, 16–17, 40, 43, 75, 101, 294, 295, 302
Conduitt, John, 272
consciousness, 302
Copernicus, Nicolaus, xiii, 97–99, 101–2, 112, 113, 146, 150, 156, 160, 170, 171, 172
Cromwell, Oliver, 3, 38, 70n
Croone, William, 81–82
Crosby, Alfred, 192n
d’Alembert, Jean, 224
Dantzig, Tobias, 202
Darwin, Charles, 112, 127, 128, 256, 266, 302n
Daston, Lorraine, 63
Day of Doom, 11
day of judgment (apocalypse), 13–19
Revelation 11:3, 14n
timing of, 14–15, 14n, 19
Defense, The (Nabokov), 132
Descartes, René, xiii, xviii, 5, 42, 54, 79, 97, 190, 194–95, 200, 286
Cartesian coordinates, 194, 341n 193
coordinate geometry, xiii, 1
90–93, 226, 227, 228, 240
graphs, 191–92, 194, 200, 212–13, 213, 341n 193
negative/imaginary numbers and, 196
vacuums, 198n, 286
Dialogues (Plato), 200
Diderot, Denis, 45
Digby, Sir Kenelm, 50, 50n, 52
Dirac, Paul, 229–30, 295, 348n 295
Discourse on Method (Descartes), 194–95
disease, xv, xvi, 7–8, 9, 80n. See also plague
four “humors” and, 80–81
Donne, John, 11, 26, 71, 102
Earth. See also planets; universe
Aristotle’s immobile, 98–99, 172, 174
earth-centered universe, 91, 112, 113, 160, 176, 335n 112
four elements theory, 92
gravity and, 305
Greek understanding of, 92
hell, location within, 113
mathematical laws for, 93–94
right triangle of Earth, sun, moon, 138n
speed of, 175
as spinning and moving, 97–99, 101, 111, 112, 170, 172
Eddington, Arthur, 298
education, 42, 62, 69–70, 69n
Edward III, 27
Edwards, Jonathan, 11
Einstein, Albert, 39n, 88, 125, 132, 133, 169, 283, 304, 306, 338n 143
special relativity, 171–72, 229, 298
Elements of Newton’s Philosophy (Voltaire), 297
Elizabeth I, 37n, 78
ellipses, 40, 40, 163–65, 164, 164n, 166, 179, 275, 278
inverse-square laws and, 281–82, 282n
England in the seventeenth century
beheading of Charles I, xiv, 15
bulldog, 80
Civil War, xiii, xvi, 44
comets in 1664–1665, 16
crime and punishment, 53–54, 76–78, 78, 78n, 331n 78
Hanoverian claim to the throne, 261
as incurring God’s anger, 17
Newton-Leibniz feud, 259–70
plague (bubonic plague), xvi
practicality celebrated, 88
Puritan rule, 15
Restoration (of monarchy), 15
scientific rise in, 98
Euclid, 40, 135, 190, 227, 240, 298
five “Platonic solids” and, 152–53, 153, 339n 153
Euclid’s geometry, 40, 40
Evelyn, John, 32–33, 60
evolution, 127, 128, 266, 309
experimentation
on animals, 59, 79–82
blood transfusions, 60–61, 61, 81–82
on dogs, 80–82, 86
experimentation (cont.)