Authors: Arthur Koestler
Anaxmenes'
theory
of,
23
Aristarchus's
cosmology,
48
-50
Aristotle's,
59
-62,
64
abandonment
of,
427
Baer's
system,
297
Copernicus's
seven
axioms,
145
system,
191
-219,
316
,
456
,
495
fn.
"cosmic
cup",
269
-71
"diabolocentric",
96
enclosed
by
water,
90
Ferris-wheel,
66
-9
heliocentric
system,
45
-50,
72
,
73
,
99
-100,
205
,
209
,
213
,
215
Herakleides
Cosmology,
45
-8,
99
-100
Kepler's
perfect
solids,
247
-61
system,
316
-43,
406
medieval
Christian,
215
-6
Newton's
system,
504
-9
Philolaus's
theory,
42
-4
queries
on
formation,
22
uniform
circular
motion,
59
-62,
66
,
76
-7
walled-in,
94
Urban
VIII,
Pope,
357
,
425
,
431
,
442
,
533
and
Galileo,
472
et
seq.
Usher,
Bishop,
526
Utopia
,
54
VEDEL,
Anders
Soerensen,
285
Vieta,
Francois,
320
Virgil
(Fergil),
92
Vitruvius,
50
WACKHER
von
,
Wackenfels,
Johannes
Matthaeus,
351
,
370
,
372
Wallenstein,
Duke
of,
243
Wallenstein,
General,
413
-4,
419
,
420
Walther,
Johann,
209
Wapowsky,
Canon
Bernhard,
146
Watzelrode,
Barbara
(Frau
Koppernigk),
126
Watzelrode,
Christina,
126
Watzelrode,
Lucas,
126
character,
126
-7
death,
140
influence
on
Copernicus,
127
Weight,
definitions
of,
499
-501
Weil-der-Stadt,
225
Weltschmerz
,
107
Wermuth,
Christian,
187
Whitehead,
Professor,
52
,
112
,
527
-8,
533
Whittaker,
Sir
Edmund,
537
Wilhelm
IV,
the
Landgraf
,
290
-1
William
of
Ockham,
110
Wotton,
Sir
Henry,
412
Wren,
Christopher,
502
Wuerttemberg,
Frederick
Duke
of,
269
-70
Ximines,
Father,
442
ZACHARIAS,
Pope,
92
Ziegler,
Jacob,
210
Zinner,
Ernst,
170
Zodiac,
21
Zuniga,
Diego
de,
456
1
Newton's
First
Law
of
Motion
was
in
fact
formulated
by
Descartes.