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INDEX
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Aberration of starlight, 139
Absorption lines, 164
Abstract symmetries, 305–307
Accelerators, 318–326, 333, 336, 340–341, 347
proton-antiproton collider, 324–326
superconducting super collider, 326, 340
Aether, 69, 178–181, 351
Aether drift theory, 188, 192
Africa, 50–54
Age of the Earth, The (Holmes), 251–252
Age of the universe, 214
Christian scholars’ estimate of, 220–221
Darwinism and, 245–246, 254
scientific age-dating and, 221–229
Aldebaran (bright star), 61, 165
Alexander the Great, 27, 40, 219
Alpha Centauri, 371
parallax of, 139–140
Alpha particles, 250, 256
Alpher, Ralph, 213, 214
American Indians, 22, 48
American Viking project, 370, 371
Analytical geometry, 110
Anaxagoras, 33–34
Andromeda nebula, 146, 158, 166, 167, 172, 175
novae and stars in, 172–173
Animal breeding, 236n-237n
Anthropic principle, 355–356, 394
Antimatter, 308, 322
Antiprotons, 322, 323–324
Antiquarks, 344
Apartness, delusion of, 289
Archimedes, 36–49, 62, 81, 85
Aristarchus of Samos, 35–36, 37–38, 43, 59, 64, 140
Aristotle, 31, 40, 56, 62, 64, 65, 67n, 70, 71, 75, 144
conception of time of, 217, 218, 219
cosmological observations of, 27–28, 29, 3
0, 31, 33, 69
the earth and, 69
inertia and, 92–94
law of falling bodies and, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94
Assayer, The (Galileo), 98
Astrolabe, 128
Astronomical units, 124–125, 130, 135–136, 137
mean distances of the planets from the sun (est.), 124
Astronomy, 367
ancients’ use of, 19–25
extragalactic, 154–157
radio, 213–214
terrestrial explorations and, 20–21, 47–49, 52
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