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Authors: Arthur Koestler

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Narratio
Prima
,
254

Natural
History
(
Pliny),
288

Natural
Magic
,
373

Neoplatonism,
52
,
85
-8,
94
-103

contempt
for
science,
88

emanation
theory,
94
-5

New
Astronomy
or
Physics
of
the
Skies
,
160
,
303
,
313
et
seq.,
362
,
370
,
372

difficulties
in
publishing,
344
-6

Newton,
Sir
Isaac,
13
,
14
,
278
-9,
353
,
496
-509

birth,
496

on
gravity,
339

reasons
for
success
of
synthesis,
518

synthesizes
Kepler's
and
Galileo's
law,
504

Niccolini,
Tuscan
Ambassador,
481
,
487
,
489
,
490

Nicolas
of
Cusa,
129

1984
,
54

Numbers

irrational,
39
-40

sacredness
of,
28
,
29
-31

OBSERVATION
data,
importance
of
continuous
in
astronomy,
285
,
286

Observation

Report
on
Jupiter
's
Four
Wandering
Satellites
,
378

Ockhamists,
199
,
207
,
337

On
the
Face
in
the
Moon
Disc
,
49
,
71
,
72

On
the
Motion
of
the
Eighth
Sphere
,
146
,
200

On
the
Revolutions
of
the
Heavenly
Spheres
,
15
,
119
,
121
,
122
,
123
,
141
,
142
,
146
,
148
,
150
,
151
,
153
,
156
,
157
,
188

reactions
to,
213
-9

the
Dedication
and
Rheticus,
172
-4

the
Preface
scandal,
165
-72

On
the
Senses
and
Sensibilities
,
152

On
the
Sizes
and
Distances
of
the
Sun
and
Moon
,
49
-50

Optics
,
341
,
362

Opus
Palatinum
de
Triangulis
,
189

Oresme,
Nicolas
of,
199
,
522

Orphic
cult,
33
-9

Orsini,
Cardinal
Alessandro,
454
,
455

Osiander,
Andreas

letters
to
Copernicus
and
Rheticus,
167

Preface
to
The
Revolutions
,
166
-72

Otho,
Valentine,
189

Oyster
universe,
19
-10

PALMERINI,
Professor,
428

Paracelsus,
Theophrastus
Bombastus,
153
,
198
,
524

Paradise
Lost
,
68
-9

Parmenides
,
57
,
60

Paul
III,
Pope,
151
,
153
,
172
,
173
,
427
,
457

Paul
V,
Pope,
426
,
443
,
453
,
454
,
457
,
458

Paulus,
Father,
494

Perfect
Solids,
the,
247
-53,
254
,
303
,
334
,
372

Peucer,
Kaspar,
191

Peurbach,
George,
191
,
192
,
207
-8

Physics

and
astronomy
reunited,
258

Aristotelian,
108
-111,
199
,
211
,
217
,
275
,
454

Kepler's,
336
-40

Physics
,
104

Pherekydes,
26

Philolaus,
40
,
42
-4
"central
fire"
theory,
43
-4

Picard,
Jean,
507

Picasso,
78

Piccolomini,
Cardinal,
453
,
492

Pigeon
League,
431
,
535

Pitch,
musical,
28

Planetary
Theory
,
191

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