Moon (deity), 53–54

Artemis, 53–54, 88, 90, 190

Britomartis, 54

Cynthia, 38, 53

Diana (Dian), 53, 88, 190, 205, 207, 209–210

Dictynna, 53–54

Moon (Earth's), xvi, xxi, 2, 5–6, 9–10, 12, 14, 19, 27, 33–34, 38, 51–55, 58–59, 63–64, 68–69, 73, 78, 80, 87–90, 100–101, 104–106, 110, 115, 133, 159, 189, 202–203, 205, 208–210, 213, 230, 241, 246, 259, 333n6, 337n3, 344n13, 345n17, 354n1

Syzygy, 87–88, 105

Moses, 54, 182

Mousetrap, The, 134, 136–137, 141, 144

Müller, Johann (1436–1476), 345n16

Munosius, Hieronymus ( fl.1572), 100, 103, 105, 340n4

Murder of Gonzago The, 130, 132, 134, 136–137

Muses, 325–326

music, 2, 66, 138, 247–248, 303

of the spheres, 5, 205, 248

narcissism, 140

Nashe, Thomas (1567–1601), 334n1

necromancy, xv, 236–237, 356n2

Neoplatonism, 94, 205, 322

Neptune (deity), 80, 94

Netherlands, 192

New Astronomy, xix, xxv, 1–42, 56–57, 61, 73, 76–77, 81, 84, 87–88, 94–95, 100, 103–104, 106, 108, 112–114, 118–119, 121, 127, 134, 145, 153, 155, 157–158

New Astronomy (continued )

, 168–169, 187–189, 191–192, 194, 214, 219, 223, 226, 314, 333n6, 344n14

“New Mythology”, 325

New Organon, xxv, 17, 114

New Philosophy, xxv, 11, 17, 114, 144, 157, 169, 268, 274–276, 290, 302, 343n11

New Physics, xxv, 265

New Star

of 1572, 17, 78, 91, 93, 100–101, 103–106, 124, 151, 290, 337n4, 338n1, 340n4, 357n5

of 1604, 34, 355n7

Newton, Isaac (1642–1727), 20, 155, 157, 308, 334n8

Principia Mathematica, 155

Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464), 23, 117

North Celestial Pole, 77–78, 100

North Pole Star, 257

Norway, 82, 109, 146

Norwood, Richard (1590–1675), 357n6

Novara, Domenico Maria da (1454–1504), 12, 344n14

Nut, 117

Occam's razor, 13

Old Astronomy, 15, 34, 78, 112, 118, 152, 187–191, 206, 227, 261

Old Philosophy, 17

Old Physics, 10, 51, 59, 112, 119–120, 333n6

omen, 17, 79–80, 88, 91, 150, 338n2

One, 94, 170

Opposition, 14, 84, 87–88, 105, 208, 304

Oresund Sound, 17, 351n18