Bacon, Nicholas (1510–1579), 313

Bacon, Roger (c.1214–1294), 28–29, 42, 254, 296, 303, 309, 332n5

Opus Majus, 28

Badovere, Jacques (1570/1580–c.1630), 192–193

Baer. See Bär

Bär, Reymers (c.1550–1600), 278–284, 287–290, 295, 354n4

De Astronomicis Hypothesibus, 282–283, 289

Fundamentum astronomicum, 279, 287–289

Barbary coast, 165

Barberini, Francesco (1597–1679), 40, 357n6

Barberini, Maffeo (1568–1644), 40

bardolatry, 318

Bellarmine, Robert (1542–1621), 39

Benson, John, 328

Bernard of Verdun ( fl.13th century), 113

Bernardus Silvestris ( fl.1147), 21, 71, 73, 87

Cosmographia, 5, 73, 87, 375

Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (1784–1846), 334n8, 345n17

bias, xvii, 216, 276, 300, 338n1

Bible

1 Corinthians, 291

2 Corinthians, 296

Ezekiel, 318

Genesis, 54

Hosea, 283

Jeremiah, 108

birds, 55, 66, 97–98, 126, 189, 213, 222, 273, 298, 320, 323

of Jove, 181, 184–185, 298

Phoenix, 184–185

Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–1375), 171–172, 187, 201

Decameron, 171, 187, 200–201, 206

Bohemia, 20, 256–257, 259–260, 262, 266, 274–275, 278, 283, 291–293, 296, 298–299

Prague, 20, 37, 257, 266, 279, 282, 304, 340n5

Book of Days The, 299

Book of Nature, xx, 24

Bourne, William (1535–1585), 29–30, 254, 310

Inuentions or Deuices, 29

A treatise on the properties and qualities of glasses, 29, 310

Bradley, James (1693–1762), 334n8

Brahe, Tycho (1546–1601), xvi, 1, 17–20, 27, 71–72, 78, 92–93, 102, 109, 112, 117, 119–120, 122–127, 134, 138, 140, 145, 161–162, 254, 258, 279–291, 295, 304, 315, 332n4, 337n4, 338nn1–2, 340n5, 344n13, 351n18, 354nn3–4, 357n6, 358n11

Astronomiae Instaurata Mechanica, 289, 291

children, 284–285, 354n4

De Stella Nova, 78, 286, 338n1

death, 20, 102, 280, 283–284, 289, 315

Epistolarum Astronomicarum, 289

island. See Hven

Liber Secundus, 18–19, 124, 279, 287–289

observatory, 17, 279, 281, 337n4, 351n18

Brahmagupta (c.598–c.665), 21