Holland

Amsterdam, 124

The Hague, 192

holy day, 101, 106, 128

Homer (before 700 BC), xxiv

homocentricism, 4, 10

Hooke, Robert (1635–1703), 142

Horace (65 BC–8 BC), 71, 168

horoscope, 282, 285–286

horticulture, 258

Huguenots, 44, 67

humanism, 33, 73, 153, 345n16

Humanities, 325

humors, 92

hunting, 45, 48–51, 54, 58, 74, 129, 175, 256, 262, 287, 290, 335n2

Huygens, Christiaan (1629–1695), 38–39

Systema Saturnium, 38

Hven, 17, 126, 162, 279–282, 290, 290, 337n4

hyperbole, 117–118, 152, 227, 261

hypocrisy, 58, 108

hypothesis, xx, xxiii, 12–13, 15, 24, 51, 79, 81, 153, 157, 159, 203, 282–283, 288–289, 299, 310, 315

I.M., 326–327

To the memorie of M.W.Shake-speare, 326–327

imagination, 2–3, 10, 19–20, 24, 33, 49, 61, 65, 75, 77, 117–118, 125, 138, 185, 201, 215, 217, 242, 246, 262–263, 313, 317

immensum, 15, 18, 20, 334n8, 342n8

I.M.S. (friendly admirer), 328, 358n13

Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 40, 74

infinite, infinity, 3, 20–24, 28, 42, 76–77, 79, 109, 112, 114, 117–120, 131, 139, 147, 156–157, 159, 183, 280, 315, 328, 331n3, 338n2, 342n8, 342n10, 345n17, 355n8, 358n13

infinitum, 342n8

Inns of Court, 106, 152, 169, 277, 308, 324

Inquisition, 40, 45, 47

insects, 185, 194, 198, 200, 204

interpretation, xvi–xvii, xx–xxii, xxiv, 22, 35–36, 42, 45, 54, 69, 78, 84, 112, 120, 126, 147–148, 157, 176–179, 182, 204, 212, 221–223, 230, 263, 291, 311, 335n2, 342n7, 342n10, 343n11, 344n12, 345n17, 352n3

epistemology, xxi, 47, 81, 130, 130, 134

hermeneutic-dialectic, xx, xxiv

hypothetico-deductive, xx

maximally reasonable, xx

irony, 18, 56–58, 64, 109–110, 114–116, 121, 132, 134, 139, 154, 162, 212, 265, 275, 282, 286, 291, 301, 336n2

Isabella I of Spain (1451–1504), 45

Italy, xv, 2, 12, 16, 35, 39–40, 171–172, 176, 179, 188, 191–193, 197, 215, 217, 237, 257, 355n8

Croton, 2

Florence, 32, 39

Padua, 33, 40, 179, 193, 243–244, 355n8

Pisa, 32–33, 357n6

Rome, 13, 15, 37, 39–40, 172–174, 176, 188, 191–192, 199–200, 207–208, 217, 222, 225–226