The Sleepwalkers (304 page)

Plato

attitude
to
astronomy,
52

cause
of
fall
of
philosophy,
85

compared
with
Aristotle,
53
-7

contempt
of
artisan
class,
54
-5

hostility
to
Pythagoreans,
52

politics,
54

theory
of
universe,
57
-9,
63

Platonic
revival,
198
et
seq.

Platonic
solids,
249

Platonism,
41
,
52
-7,
74
,
75
,
85
,
88
,
474

Pliny,
31
,
71
,
92

Plotinus,
86

Plotowski,
Canon,
182

Plutarch,
49
,
71

Polycrates,
26
,
38

Polz,
Johann,
349

Pope,
Alexander,
97

Portolano,
charts,
100

Praetorius,
Johannes,
169
,
275

Prevolvans,
417
,
418

Principia
,
509

Principle
of
continuity,
95
-6

Proclos,
40

Prowe,
Ludwig,
121

Pseudo-Dionysius,
95
,
105

Ptolemy,
Claudius,
14
,
65
,
191

immobility
of
earth:
76

objects
of
astronomy,
74

Tables,
70

"wheel"
universe,
66
-75

Puncrum
equans,
318
,
319
,
320
,
377

Pythagoras

banishment,
27

founder
of
religious
philosophy,
26
,
35
-7,
520
of
science,
26

Pythagorean
Brotherhood,
14
,
33
,
56
,
262

a
religious
Order,
38

dissolution
of,
40

founding
of,
27

rules
of
life,
8

Pythagorean
philosophy,
27
-41

axis
of,
89

declared
false
by
Holy
Office,
456

harmony
of
the
spheres,
31
-3

irrational
numbers,
39
-40

Kepler
and
the,
246
,
249
,
255

musical
aspects,
28
,
31
-2

of
healing,
29
,
36

Plato's
hostility
to,
52

religious
concept
of,
35
-9

sacredness
of
numbers,
28
,
29
-31

scale,
31
-2

"the
highest
music,"
29

QUERENGO,
Mgr.,
452
,
461

RALEIGH,
Sir
W.,
98

Ramus,
Pierre,
189
,
198

Reciprocal
Action
and
Reaction,
Law
of,
508

Rectangular
universe,
20
,
85
-92

Refutation
of
the
Star
Messenger
,
369

Reich,
Canon
Felix,
144

Reinhold,
Erasmus,
154
,
213

Reinhold,
Jacob,
384

Regiomontanus
(
Mueller,
Johanna),
123
,
208
-9,
211

Religion
and
science,
85
-103,
279
-82,
308
-9,
520
-8

Aristotelian
physics,
110
-11

Book
of
Revolutions
placed
on
Index,
442

causes
of
prohibition
of
Copernicus,
432
-4

Church
and
Copernican
system,
213
-9

Church
attitude
on
unproven
propositions,
436
et
seq.

Church
attitude
to
Copernicus,
445
,
446
,
447
et
seq.
,
453
,
455
-9,
479
et
seq.
,
522

Galileo
and
the
Church,
357
-8

Galileo's
manifesto
of
freedom
of
thought,
435
-6

Galileo's
trial,
483
-95

in
medieval
times,
94
-103

Kepler
and
theologians,
343

modern
science,
528
et
seq.

Plato
cause
of
destruction
of
union
of,
85

Pope
Urban
VIII
and
Galileo,
472
-83

position
of
Catholics
on
Copernician
system,
427

Ptolemy's
philosophy,
74
-5

Pythagorean
synthesis,
35
-9

religious
attack
on
Copernicanism,
431

religious
persecution,
72
,
73

Renuncini,
472

Republic
,
52
,
71