Purgatory, 95, 99, 106

Pygmalion, 300

Pythagoras (c.582–c.507 BC), 2–4, 84, 170, 334n8

Pythagorean, xx, 2–4, 8, 10, 16, 20–21, 24, 32, 119, 138, 168, 170, 247, 266, 280, 338n2

Raleigh, Walter (c.1552–1618), 71, 345n17

Ramus, Petrus (1515–1572), 44, 67

Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune The, 172

Regiomontanus. See Müller

Regnans in Excelsis, 311

Reinhold, Erasmus (1511–1553), 153–160, 345n15

resolution, 307–329

optical, 26, 36, 98, 127, 130, 228, 253, 292, 307, 309, 332n4, 337n3, 344n13

plot, 168, 219, 251, 302

puzzle, 60, 182, 307–329

retrograde, 84, 321, 334n1

planetary motion, 6, 10, 13, 15, 84–85, 149, 321, 331n2

Reymers. See Bär

Reynolds, John (1549–1607), 71, 107

Rheticus, 16, 76, 112, 139–140, 153–160, 344n14

Ephemeris, 155, 158

Narratio Primus, 140, 154

Richard I of England (1157–1199), 222, 308

riddle, xxi, 43, 53–55, 182, 186, 220, 225, 335n2

rodents, 62, 98–99, 141, 152, 185

Rothmann, Christopher ( fl.1580), 290–291

Royal Society, 28, 311

Rudolph II (1552–1612), 257, 283, 283, 300

Sannazaro, Jacopo (1458–1530), 340n3

Arcadia, 340n3

Saturn (deity), 45, 51, 62–63, 65, 68, 214–215, 222, 278, 297, 300

Saturn (planet), 2, 5–6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 35–39, 47, 51–52, 62–63, 68, 214–215, 227, 229, 233–234, 241–242, 249–254, 300, 315, 333n6, 352n4, 353n1, 353nn5–6, 355n7

Saturnia, 215, 257

Savile, Thomas (c.1560–1593), 124

Saxo Grammaticus ( fl.1188–1201), 70–71, 87, 146

Historia Danica, 70, 146

schoolmen, 11, 50, 56–57, 107, 112, 170, 311

Schroeter, Johann Hieronymus (1745–1816), 337n3

Schuler, Wolfgang (d.1575), 102–104, 106

Schwarzerd, Philipp (1497–1560), 16, 154

Seleucus the Babylonian ( fl.150 BC), 21

Seneca (4 BC–AD 65), 21, 322

Shakespeare, William, xvi–xvii, xix–xxv, 1–2, 17, 24, 35, 41–47, 49, 51–54, 56, 59–60, 62, 64–65, 68–72, 76–78, 81, 84, 86–87, 89–90, 92–93, 95, 97–102, 105–108, 111, 113–114, 118, 120–121, 124–128, 130, 132, 134, 139–143, 151–152, 156–157, 159