aberration, optical, 328, 334n8

action-at-a-distance, 265

Aeschylus (525–456 BC)

Oresteia, 321

aether, 10, 51, 225

air (atmospheric), 96, 114, 119–120, 134, 199, 220, 225, 228, 275–276

Air (element), 10, 51, 119, 333n6

Albertus Magnus (1193–1280), 107

alchemy, 241

Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon (1221–1284), 9, 356

allegory, xvi–xxiii, 1, 69, 79, 84, 108, 126, 135–136, 146, 153, 156, 161, 168, 178, 217, 226, 326, 335n2, 338n2, 345n16

Anaxagoras (c.500–c.428 BC), 3

Ancient Planets, xxi, 4–10, 19, 26, 41, 44, 52, 59, 205, 208, 214, 241, 205, 251, 265, 333n6

Anne of Denmark (1574–1619), 117

anomaly, 10, 12, 52, 84

anxiety, 84, 208, 262, 267

Aphrodite. See Venus

Apian, Peter (1495–1552), 356n2

Cosmographia, 5

Apollo, xxiv, 66–67, 81, 172, 190, 259, 271, 273, 276–278, 290–291, 293, 295, 298–299, 304, 322, 325–326, 329, 343n11

as Theos, 160

apology, xxiv, 166, 338n2

apple, 47, 50–52, 66

of wisdom, 157

Aquinas, Thomas (1225–1274)Aquinas, Thomas (1225–1274), 12, 12, 107

Aquitaine, 48, 65

Archimedes (287–212 BC), 26, 194

Archytas (428–347 BC), 3

Aristarchus (c.310–250 BC), 16, 21

Aristotelian, xvi, 8, 11–12, 34, 40, 42, 44, 59–60, 72, 82, 84, 91, 111, 113, 117–118, 148, 194, 210, 225, 280, 338n2

Aristotle (384–322 BC), xxv, 4–11, 28, 33, 51, 74–75, 82, 113, 116, 132–133, 139, 148, 265, 357n6

Metaphysics, 8, 132

On the Heavens, 5

On Interpretation, 148

Organon, xxv

Poetics, 139

Politics, 116, 139

arithmetic, xxiii, 28, 114, 211, 345n17

Armada, Spanish, xxi, 43, 50, 287, 335n2

art, xxiv, 90, 110, 210–211, 300, 303, 326, 340n5, 358n12

Arts, 325

asterism, 204, 298

astrology, 224

astronomer, 30, 72, 90, 127, 143, 162, 169, 224, 237–238, 338n1, 342n9, 357n6

atomist, 3, 83, 345n17

Babylon, 5, 21

Bacon, Francis (1561–1626), xxv, 43