Index
Action at a distance
89, 91, 95, 210
Active matter
111, 113, 142–3
Aether
3, 11, 113, 134, 142, 147–51, 166, 168, 197, 199, 205–10, 212
Agrippa, Cornelius
hidden qualities
14, 29, 61, 219
natural magic
16
occult qualities
17–8, 217
sublime virtue
16
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
5, 16
Air-pump
116–7, 127, 165–6, 168, 205
Al-Kindī
De radiis stellarum
124
De theorica artium magicarum
26–8, 124
rays
26–7, 121, 124
Aristotle
four elements
17, 85
Physics
40
self-determined voids
113, 116n, 153–4, 162
astrology
20, 22–4, 29
astrological influence
22–3, 60, 61n, 85
astronomy
elliptical astronomy, or Keplerian astronomy
6, 8, 9, 13, 29, 32–5, 101–6, 220
Atomism
120, 122, 136, 154, 157, 159–60, 164
Attraction
8–9, 36, 38, 45, 54, 85–6, 89–101, 103–4, 107–8, 110, 115, 118, 129, 145, 150, 158, 170, 190–2, 194–5, 212, 217–8
attractive force (attractive power)
15, 36–7, 44–5, 85, 92, 97, 100, 102, 107–9, 190, 192, 212
Bacon, Francis
Abecedarium novum naturae (1622)
66
Baconian method
58, 65–71, 81, 116, 142, 169, 179, 205
Cogitata et visa (1607)
72–3, 76
condensation
155–7
Description of the Intellectual Globe (1612)
122
experimental method
48, 57–8, 64, 72, 76, 80–1
Great Instauration (1620)
70, 78–9
heat
74–5
Historia Densi et Rari (c.1622)
66, 140, 155
Historia ventorum (1622)
66
Historia vitae et mortis (1623)
66
History of Heavy and Light
93–4
induction
66–9, 74–5, 79
magnetism
10, 86–7, 93–6, 101
magnetical power
86, 93–7
matter theory
76, 78–9
motion
9, 69, 71, 75–9, 101
New Atlantis (1626)
65, 71
Novum Organum (1620)
1, 48, 57, 65–79, 94–5, 100–1, 155, 157
occult causes
1, 9, 57, 71–9
Phaenomena universi (1611)
66
rarefaction
155–7
the reform of natural philosophy
65, 68, 72, 74, 79
“Refutation of Philosophies” (1608)
73
Sylva sylvarum (1626)
1, 94–5, 122, 140
terrestrial gravitational attraction
86, 93, 100
vacuum
76, 95, 122, 155–6
Bacon, Roger
De multiplicatione specierum
27
De speculis comburentibus
28
light metaphysics
25–7, 159
rays
25–8, 121, 160
Barrow, Isaac
Geometric Lectures
174–6, 178
Mathematical Lectures
173–6, 187
magnitude
173–5
mixed-mathematics
175
motion
111, 174, 176, 186–7
optics
173, 175
Beeckman, Isaac
occult qualities
15, 37, 48
physico-mathematics
15
mathematico-physica
48
Boyle, Robert
A Discovery of the Admirable Rarefaction of Air
168–9
air-pump
116–7, 165, 168, 205
An Essay of the Great Effects of Even Languid and Unheeded Motion (1685)
128, 138
An Examen of Mr T. Hobbes his Dialogus Physicus De Natura Aeris (1662)
137
Baconian methodology
81
Boylean method
58, 179
corpuscular philosophy
113, 135
“De aere et aethere”
205–6
Defence of the Doctrine Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air (1662)
143, 168
effluvia
effluvia of Loadstones
123, 128
electrical Effluvia
129
rarified
131
Essays of Effluviums (1673)
123, 128, 130–1
Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664)
178
History of Firmness (1661)
135
History of Fluidity (1661)
134–5
languid and unheeded motion
128, 138–9
magnet
133
New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects (1660)
141
observation
81, 179
Of Absolute Rest in Bodies (1669)
135–9
particles
116, 119, 123–4, 128–31, 134–7, 139, 141, 143, 168, 205
spring of the air
81, 116–7, 132, 141–4, 168–9
Suspicions about Some Hidden Qualities of the Air (1674)
132, 208
Tracts about the Cosmical Qualities of Things (1671)
140–1
Brouncker, William
114
Browne, Sir Thomas
Pseudodoxia epidemica (1646)
124–5
Bruno, Giordano
18
Buridan, Jean
40, 154
Cardano, Girolamo
40, 61, 90
De subtilitate (1560)
63, 121
magnets
85
Catoptrics
8, 14–5, 28
Cavendish, Sir Charles
159
Cavendish, William
159
Celestial mechanism
103, 109
Charleton, Walter
A Ternary of Paradoxes (1650)
125
atoms
125–6, 166, 176
atomist account of condensation and rarefaction
166–7
attraction
96, 98–9
effluvia
112, 124–6
gravity
96, 98–9, 176
magnetism
87, 96, 98, 124–6
Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana
(1654)98, 126, 166
rarefaction
166–7
springs
167
sympathy
125
Clarke, Samuel
214
condensation
112, 143, 151–69, 205, 209
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Copernican system
31, 34, 37, 45, 86–7, 198
Copernicanism
43, 88
De revolutionibus
31
Corpuscular(ian) philosophy
115, 134, 163
Cotes, Roger
210, 214–5
Crabtree, William
103
Crathorne, William
154
Croone, William
84
Cusanus, Nicolaus
91–2
Dee, John
astrological physics
8, 14, 24, 29, 219
catoptrics
8, 14, 28
geometrical optics
8, 15, 19, 21, 23–5, 28, 36
hidden qualities
8, 14, 29
“Mathematicall Praeface”
19–20, 24
optics
24
Propaedeumata aphoristica (1558)
159
del Monte, Guidobaldo
39
della Porta, Giambattista
light
121
lodestone
90
Magia naturalis (1589)
121
Descartes, René
Discourse on the Method (1637)
47
divine power
52
hidden causes
55
Geometry (1637)
176
God
50–3
laws of motion
10, 52–5, 104
“Le Monde”
47, 50–1, 53
magnet
37, 54, 119, 122, 124
mathematical laws
49–51, 53
matter theory
8, 53, 111, 119, 124, 163
mechanical principles
8, 15
occult qualities
1, 15, 37, 47, 54, 111
particles
8, 15, 54, 119–20, 134, 163–4
Principles of Philosophy (1644)
47, 124, 186
rarefaction
163–5
Regulae
52
Digby, Kenelm
condensation
167–8
Treatise on Body
168
Digges, Thomas
28
Donne, John
“Anatomy of the World” (1611)
63
effluvia
10, 91–2, 95, 112–3, 119–34, 208–10
Epicurus
90, 120, 122, 124, 143, 155
Euclid
Elements (1570)
19, 30, 187
experimental philosophy
4, 6, 8–10, 214–6, 219
Fernel, Jean
De abditis rerum causis (1548)
59–60, 62–3
divine
17–8, 59–60
heavenly bodies
60
occult
occult causes
57, 60–2
occult diseases
62
occult qualities
17–8, 59, 63–4
Ficino, Marsilio
18
Flamsteed, John
191
astronomical data
202, 204
comet
171, 191–5
Sun
192
Foster, Samuel
103
Fracastoro, Gerolamo
85
Galenists
85
Galileo, Galilei
Assayer (1623)
38
De motu (1589–92)
38, 41, 108
Dialogo (1632)
14–5, 38, 42
Discorsi (1638)
15, 38, 46, 106
gravitas
39, 41–2
mathematical certainty
15, 38, 39, 42, 45, 49
mechanics
14, 38–9, 41–2, 46
“Mechanics” (1599)
38, 41
momentum
41, 107
natural motion
41–2
occult qualities
4, 8, 14, 37, 42, 44–5, 47
Gascoigne, William
103
Gassendi, Pierre
active principles
124, 164
corpuscularian
113, 165
Syntagma philosophicum (1658)
165
voids
16–6
Gassendians
113, 163–9
Gemma, Cornelius
90
Geometry
23, 30–1, 34, 38–9, 82–3, 174–5, 181–2, 188, 211
Geometry of rays
13, 25
Generation
59–60, 115
Gerardus Mercator
18–9, 85
Gilbert, William
De magnete (1600)
9, 36, 38, 86–91, 93, 102, 119, 122
De mundo
87, 90, 93
effluvia
91–2, 95
gravity
86, 92–4, 97
magnetism
9, 38, 86–96, 102, 104, 115, 121–2
God
14, 25, 29–34, 50–3, 59–60, 73, 111, 158, 175, 186, 189, 210, 212n, 214
Goddard, Jonathan
84
Gresham College
96, 103–4
Grosseteste, Robert
De calore solis
159
De luce
28
geometrical atomism
160
light metaphysics
26–7, 160
vis radiativa
161–2
Hale, Sir Mathew
air
116, 157–8
Difficiles nugæ (1675)
116n
matter
113
motion
159
Observations Touching the Principles of Natural Motions, and Especially Touching Rarefaction & Condensation (1677)
157–8
virtus activa
158–9
Hartlib, Samuel
113
Harriot, Thomas
113, 159–60, 162
vis radiative
162
Hidden properties, hidden qualities, hidden virtues
1, 3–5, 8, 10, 14, 29, 61, 132, 218–9
Hobbes, Thomas
113, 137, 143, 154, 164–5
Hooke, Robert
An Attempt for the Explication of the Phenomena (1661)
144
Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth by Observation (1674)
190
Cometa (1678)
110, 190
gravitational theories
97, 100, 108, 150
gravity
100–1, 108, 112, 149–50, 151, 190
Lectiones cutlerianae (1670)
190
Lectures de Potentia Restitutiva (1679)
112, 145–6, 149
matter theory
142
Micrographia (1665)
108, 112, 144–5, 150–1, 180
orbital motions
9, 87, 103, 107, 109, 171, 189–90
planetary motions
87, 101, 103–4, 109–10, 189–91, 196
vibrating matter
134, 142–9, 151
vibrative motions
145, 147–8
Horrocks, Jeremiah
103
Hues, Robert
159
Huygens, Christiaan
1, 6, 11, 81–2, 170, 185, 195, 211
Intermediate sciences
13
Jupiter
21, 51, 107, 115, 198, 204
Kepler, Johannes
Apologia pro Tychone contra Ursum (1601)
32
Astronomia nova (1609)
14, 33–4, 49, 86, 102
celestial mechanics
8, 14, 37, 48, 102–3
elliptical astronomy
6, 8, 45n, 87, 101–3, 105–6, 220
Epitome astronomiae copernicanae (1618)
37
Harmonice mundi (1616)
30
heliocentric theory
42
light metaphysics
14
magnetism
9, 14, 36–7, 86–7, 96, 101–5, 108, 189
Mars
34–5, 96, 102
Mysterium cosmographicum (1596)
29–30, 32, 96
observation
8, 14, 29, 32–3, 35, 37
planetary motions
14, 35, 37, 48, 87, 102–3
Sun
30–1, 35, 45
Laws of motion
2, 10, 97, 106, 147, 170–2, 202, 213
Laws of nature
50–3, 170, 172, 213–4
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
1–2, 4, 6, 10–1, 15, 51, 172, 211–8, 220
Light metaphysics
14, 25–7, 159
Lodestone (loadstone)
9, 54, 85, 88–9, 121, 123, 128–9, 132, 136
Lucretius
90, 120, 122, 155, 159
De rerum natura
120
Magirus, Johannes
40–1
Magnen, Jean Chrysostôme
114
Mersenne, Marin
49–51, 53, 113–4
More, Henry
84
Mercury
21, 115
Moray, Sir Robert
80, 184
Natural magic
7, 15–6, 20, 28, 41, 58, 72–3, 79, 217
Neo-Platonism
85
Newcastle, William Cavendish, duke of
117, 159
Newton Isaac
“A new theory about light and color” (February 1672)
181–3
active principles or vis activa
172, 207, 213–4
aether
112, 185, 197, 199, 205–10, 212
and Isaac Barrow
171–3, 176, 180, 186–7, 214, 218
and John Flamsteed
171, 191–5, 198, 202, 204
and Robert Hooke
101, 105, 107, 110, 112, 170–2, 176, 178, 180, 183–5, 189–91, 195–6, 200, 208
calculus
191, 214
Cartesianism
190
celestial fluids
197
“Certain Philosophical Questions”
171, 177, 186, 194
comets
189, 191, 193, 195, 197, 199, 201, 213
De gravitatione (1671)
171, 185–90, 196
De motu corporum in gyrum (1684)
196
“De motu corporum in mediis regulariter cedentibus “(1685)
199
De motu sphæricorum in fluidis (1684/5)
197
force
descending force in body (gravitas)
187
impressed force (impetus)
187
resisted force (conatus)
187
“General Scholium”
189, 197, 215
gravity
10, 151n, 176, 186, 190–1, 195, 197–204, 208, 210–6
“Hypothesis … of Light” in 1675
185, 207–9
occult qualities
1–2, 4–7, 10–1, 111, 116, 170–220
Optice (1706)
10, 170, 172, 212–4
Opticks (1704)
116, 151n, 172, 182, 211–4
Principia (1687)
1, 10, 170–2, 189, 200, 204, 210–1
prism experiment
179
laws of nature
10, 170, 172, 213–4
laws of motion
2, 10, 171–2, 213
mass
2, 170, 199–200n, 209
“Of Natures Obvious Laws and Processes in Vegetation”
207
Trinity Notebook
177, 179
“Of Colours” (1664)
179
“Of Refractions”
179
universal gravitation
1, 6, 170, 172, 203–5, 210, 218, 220
“Vegetation of Metals” (1672)
185n50, 208–9
white light
179, 181–3
Nicholas of Autrecourt
154
Northumberland, Henry Percy, 9th Earl of ‘the wizard earl’
159
Northumberland Circle
160
Oldenburg, Henry
82, 106–7, 114, 118, 182–5
Optics
8, 13–4, 19, 21, 23–5, 28–9, 36–7, 50, 90, 172–3, 175, 178, 182–3, 185, 204–5, 212
Pardies, Ignace-Gaston
184
Payne, Robert
159, 161n
“Short Tract on First Principles”
159
Petty, William
atoms
111, 114–5, 117–8
Baconianism
80
elasticity
81, 111, 114–5, 117–8
elastique Motions
114–5
generation
115
magnetism
113–5, 117, 119
motion
114–5, 117–9
Pico, Giovanni
20–3
Planetary motions
14, 35, 37, 43n, 48, 87, 93, 101–3, 110, 189 196
Plato
83, 90, 152, 155, 173
Power, Henry
active matter
126
magnetical effluvia
112, 124, 126
Pseudo-Dionysius
25–6
Ptolemy
21, 43
Rarefaction
112, 143, 151–69, 205
The Royal Society
5, 9, 80, 82, 84, 99, 100–1, 105, 108, 113, 117–9, 140, 142, 182, 185, 208, 210, 219
Saturn
21, 50, 102n, 107, 198, 204
Scarburgh, Sir Charles
84
Scientific Revolution
1–11, 170, 216–8
Sendivogius, Michael
86
Sennert, Daniel
8, 57, 63–4, 75
Sextus empiricus
48
Sprat, Thomas
80
Theophrastus
63
Torporley, Nathaniel
159
Turnebus, Adrianus
63
Valentinus, Basilius
86
Vis activa
10, 111, 158–9, 213
von Hohenburg, Herwart
34, 36
Wallis, John
Arithmetica infinitorum
176
astronomy
9, 44n, 104–5
Gresham College circle
58, 96
Ward, Seth
82, 103
Warner, Walter
matter theory
113, 161–3
rarefaction
159–63
vis radiativa
161–3
Welbeck Abbey Circle
159
Wilkins, John
Discovery of a New World (1640)
97
elliptical astronomy
87, 105
Mathematical Magick (1648)
82–3
physico-mathematicall-experimentall method
5, 9–10, 82–3, 87, 104–5, 113
planetary motions
87, 104, 110
William of Ockham
154
Willughby, Francis
84
Wilson, Thomas
74
Wood, Robert
118
Wren, Christopher
9–10
gravity
96–7, 104, 107–8
planetary motions
5, 87, 103–5, 110, 189, 219
Praelectiones Greshamense in astronomiam Kepleri
104
Wyclif, John
154