Index Nominum
‘Aqar Quf
42
Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdullah Shirazi, or Sa’adi of Shiraz
171
Agostini, Arcangelo
202
Albonesi, Teseo Ambrogio degli
348
Alexander VII (pope)
61–62, 65–66, 72–73
Algarotti, Francesco
251–252
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence
32
Al-Ṭabarī, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazid
179
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l’Aulne
176
Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe
173–176, 179, 183, 365, 380
Anson, Georges
107
Anthonisz., Cornelis
17
Apuleius
152, 196, 203
Arnould, [unknown]
249
Arzu, Siraj al-Din Ali Khan
379 n. 18
Ashmole, Elias
153
Assemani, Giuseppe Simone, Archbishop
351
Ballerino, Giovanni Battista
59
Banier, Antoine
199
Baron
272
Barthélémy, Jean-Jacques
205
Batteux, Charles
242
Baumgarten, Siegmund Jakob
161 n. 54
Baurenfeind, Georg Wilhelm
42
Bayle, Pierre
169, 178–179
Beauchamp, Pierre-Joseph de
43–44, 46–47
Belshazzar
39, 41, 50
Ben Israel, Menasseh
40–41
Bennet, Thomas
351
Berggren, Lars
42
Bernier, François
218, 345
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
65
Berossus
24, 29, 315, 321, 326–327
Blake, William
47–50
Blondel, Jacques-François
111, 120
Boccaccio, Giovanni
37
Böhme, Jakob
159–160
Boissat, Horace
107 n. 21
Bonaparte, Napoleon
206, 234
Bonioli
272
Bonnet, Jacques
243
Borra, Giovanni Battista
105
Botta, Paul-Émile
33
Botticelli, Sandro
37
Boucher de la Richarderie, Gilles
206–207
Boullée, Étienne-Louis
8, 103, 108, 120–121, 123–124, 126–128, 130
Bowyer, William
105 n. 10
Brahe, Tycho
310, 312, 318
Brongniart, Alexandre-Théodore
127–128
Bruegel, Pieter
15, 17, 49
Buckingham, James Silk
47
Cadell, Thomas
102 n. 2
Cahusac, Louis de
241–243, 245–252
Caldéron de la Barca, Pedro
260
Calisthenes
319–321, 323, 333
Canturani, Selvaggio
202
Cassas, Louis-François
102, 108, 116, 117
Catherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great)
38, 261 n. 10
Cavelier, Guillaume
103 n. 7
Cayet, Pierre Victor Palma
348 n. 12, 350, 354
Caylus (Anne Claude de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Lévis, comte de Caylus)
33, 236
Cellier, Antoine
103 n. 5
Champion, Honoré
117 n. 45
Champollion, Jean-François
9–10, 375–377, 378 n. 14, 379–385, 388 n. 36, 393 n. 37
Champollion-Figeac, Jacques-Joseph
376–377, 382
Chardin, John
169, 176
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu see Montesquieu
Chézy, Antoine Léonard de
379
Choiseul-Gouffier
102
Christina of Sweden
38
Cicero
196, 333
Clarke, Samuel
160
Claudius, Matthias
202, 204–205
Clément
275, 279
Clement of Alexandria
198–199, 203
Cleopatra VII Philopater
79
Clermont, Louis de Bourbon, comte de
245
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de
121, 134
Confucius
155
Constantine
62–64
Cooper, John Gilbert
203
Corneille, Thomas
250
Costard, George
315, 323–332, 334, 338–339
Costard, Jean Pierre
141 n. 89
Court de Gébelin, Antoine
204
Coverte, Robert
18
Crébillon, Prosper Jolyot de
260, 265
Crinesius, Christoph
352
Ctesias of Cnidus
36
Cudworth, Ralph
153–155, 197–198
Cyrus II
39, 46
d’Alembert, Jean le Rond
186, 193, 230, 242
d’Herbelot, Barthélemy
345
Dacier, André
193
Dacier, Anne
192–194
Dainville
272, 274
Dalton, Richard
111, 120
Daniel, prophet
15, 39, 71, 74–75
Dapper, Olfert
196
Darius I (Emperor of Achaemenid Persia)
178
Darwin, Charles
19
Dawkins, James
105–106
de Montfaucon, Bernard
95–103
Decker, Conraet
24–31
Defoe, Daniel
107
Dehlavi, Amir Khosrow (Persian poet of South Asia)
171
Delatour, Louis-François
106 n. 17
Delaulne, Florentin
103 n. 6
Della Valle, Pietro
18, 20–21, 23–24, 27, 33, 41–42
Delsenbach, Johann Adam
103
Desaint, La Veuve
111 n. 31
Descartes, René
161, 232
Desmarets, Henry
234
Diderot, Denis
167–169, 175–179, 183
Dio Cassius
85, 97
Diodorus Siculus (Diodorus of Sicily)
27, 29, 30 n. 39, 32, 36, 37 n. 54, 38, 187, 193–194, 196, 203, 208, 247, 249–252, 314, 334–335, 337
Du Bos, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé
242–243
Dufresny, Charles-Rivière
235
Dumesnil, Marie-Anne-Françoise
265, 270–271
Edelmann, Johann Christian
155–156
Eichhorn, Johann Gottfried
369
Erasmus, Desiderius
49
Erpenius, Thomas
347 n. 8, 354
Estève, Pierre
315, 33–340
Fénelon, François
189–190
Ficino, Marsilio
155
Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard
31–32, 183
Flamsteed, John
315–323, 325–326, 332, 338–340
Forsskäll, Peter
42
Fourier, Jean-Baptiste Joseph
381
Franck, Sebastian
155
François-Marie Arouet Voltaire see Voltaire
Frederik V of Denmark
41
Frey, Johann Dudovicus
353
Fromentin
272
Galle, Philips
29
Garnier, Charles-Georges-Thomas
135
Gasse, Louis-Sylvestre
126
Gassendi, Pierre
161
Gayot
272
Gebler, Tobias Philipp von
203
Geminus
315, 328–329, 334
Génébrard, Gilbert, Benedictine and Archbishop
354
Gherardi, Evaristo
235
Gibbon, Edward
130, 190, 203
Gluck, Christoph Willibald
238, 261 n. 7
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
116
Grandjean de Fouchy, Jean-Paul
186
Grasset, Eugène
186
Grimm, Friedrich Melchior
230–232
Grimmer, Abel
16
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
37
Guidalotto da Mondavio, Niccolò
7, 56, 58–59, 61–76, 290 n. 25
Guidi, Mauro
127
Halley, Edmund
316–317
Hamilton, Alexander
378, 379 n. 18
Hebenstreit, Johann Baptist
312
Hemmann, Johann Alexander
160 n. 50
Herder, Johann Gottfried
176, 367–369, 378
Herodotus
13, 27, 29, 31, 42–43, 83, 196, 237, 243, 247, 249, 251, 259, 314
Hobbes, Thomas
159
Hoffman, François-Benoît
250–253, 257
Holbach, Paul-Henri Thiry
150
Homer
88–89, 107, 186, 189–190, 192–196
Hooghe, Romeyn de
161 n. 54
Hottinger, Johann Heinrich
357
Houdar de la Motte, Antoine
192
Huet, Pierre-Daniel
194
Humboldt, Alexander von
376
Hyde, Thomas
169, 176, 178–179
Hymmen, Johann Wilhelm Bernhard von
160 n. 50, 204 n. 117
Hystaspes (Vishtasp)
178
Iamblichus
198–199
Jablonski, Paul Ernst
251
Jeremiah
18, 70
Joachim of Fiore
72, 75
Jomard, Edme-François
381
Jones, William
176, 365, 378, 379 n. 18
Josephus
17, 24, 42, 314, 319, 324–325
Julius Caesar
83, 86, 92
Julius II (Pope, Giuliano della Rovere)
83, 88, 91–92
Julius III (Pope, Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte)
91
Kallimachos
86
Kant, Immanuel
149, 158 n. 45
Kepler, Johannes
310, 312–313, 331
Ker Porter, Robert
47
Kircher, Athanasius
21, 23–24, 27–28, 31, 33, 120 n. 55, 196, 197 n. 75, 355, 379
Knapton, John and Paul
107 n. 20
Koldewey, Robert
21, 33, 43, 44 n. 76
Köppen, Karl Friedrich
157–159, 164
Krafft, Jean-Charles
131
Kramer, Christian Carl
42
Krause, Karl Christian Friedrich
151, 164
La Bruyère, Jean de
232
Labarre, Mme
272–273
Lactantius
199
Lafitau, Jean-François
196, 200–201
Lange, Johann Joachim
157–158
Langlès, Louis-Mathieu
369, 379–380
Lantier, Étienne-François de
203, 205–206
Laran, Jean
102 n. 3
Lastman, Pieter
41
Law, John
187
Layard, Austen Henry
33, 44
Le Brun, Corneille
103, 219
Le Jay, Guy-Michel
352
Le Roy, Julien-David
106–107, 129
Lechevalier, Jean-Baptiste
102
Lediard, Thomas
202
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
158
Lekain, Henri
265
Lemoyne, Jean-Baptiste
250
Leopold I
62, 66
Lequeu, Jean-Jacques
8, 103, 106–108, 129–131, 133–137, 140–142
Lockett, Abraham
44
Long, Edwin
32
Long, Roger
315
Louis Ferdinand, Dauphin of France
248
Louis XIV (King of France)
236
Ludres, Marie-Elisabeth (Isabelle), Mme de
236
Lully, Jean-Baptiste
231, 234, 236, 249, 257
Manteuffel, Ernst Christoph von
158
Maria Josepha of Saxony
247
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet
176
Mariette, Pierre-Jean
105
Mark Antony
83, 235
Marmontel, Jean-François
231
Marsham, John
197
Martin, John
50
Mazdak (The egaliterian reformer of late Sasanian era)
183
Mehmed II
75
Metastasio, Pietro
281 n. 72
Meursius, Johannes
196, 203
Michaelis, Johann David
41
Michaud, Joseph-François
186
Michaud, Louis-Gabriel
186
Michaux, André
35, 36 n. 52
Millar, Andrew
105 n. 11, 108 n. 25
Millin, Aubin-Louis
36
Mion, Charles-Louis
236, 257
Mondonville, Jean-Joseph de
235
Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Mme de
236
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de
8, 113, 169–170, 182, 187 n. 15, 192
Montfaucon, Bernard de
95, 97–99, 103
Montucla, Jean Etienne
315
Moreau de Saint-Méry, M.L.E.
270, 276–278
Mornay, Philippe de
155
Motolinía, Fray Toribio de Benavente
297, 300, 304–305, 306 n. 67
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
182, 185, 203, 205, 245 n. 38
Mujellibe
21
Münster, Sebastian
348
Mutterer, Maurice
117 n. 45
Muzio, Manfredi
260
Nabonidus
39, 46
Nadal, Abbé Augustin
235
Nebuchadnezzar
15, 21, 29 n. 38, 33, 35, 39, 48–49
Nebuchadnezzar II
21, 35, 47
Newton, Isaac
48–49, 161, 316–317
Niebuhr, Carsten
32, 41–43
Ninus (King of Assyria)
29, 31, 259, 262–264, 267, 272–273
Ninyas (son of Ninus and Semiramis)
259
Norden, Frederic Louis
145 n. 2, 252
Noverre, Chevalier Jean Georges
248
Octavian, later known as Augustus Caesar
83
Orosius, Paulus
37
Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, known as
107, 233
Pâris, Pierre-Adrien
251
Pauw, Cornelius de
251
Perrault, Charles
191–193
Persuis, Louis-Luc Loiseau de
235
Pfeiffer, August
351
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
88–89
Piles, Roger de
244
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
8, 103, 112–114, 116
Plato
150, 152, 172, 200, 330
Pliny
13, 86 n. 20, 91, 107, 137, 196, 315
Pluche, Noel Antoine
161–162
Plutarch
29, 83–85, 87, 97, 198–199, 250
Pococke, Richard
104, 356
Podestà, Giovanni Battista
362
Postel, Guillaume
348, 356, 358 n. 36
Poynter, Edward
32
Ptolemy
79, 92, 94, 97–98, 312, 315, 318, 320–321, 327–328, 331, 333–334
Quatremère de Quincy, Antoine Chrysostome
103, 106, 117–118
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
182, 234, 238, 241, 245, 247, 249, 252
Ramsay, Andrew Michael, Chevalier
189–190
Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke
44
Regnard, Jean
235
Reimarus, Hermann Samuel
162–163
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)
39–41, 50
Remeus, George
107 n. 21
Rennell, James
43
Rich, Claudius James
21, 43–47, 49
Riegel, Henri-Joseph
235
Robin, Claude, Abbé
204
Rollin, Charles
236
Rossi, Gaetano
38
Rossini, Giaochino
38
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
49, 275
Ruffin, Tyrannius Rufinus, known as
248
Sahagún, Fray Bernardino de
9, 284–296, 298–306
Salieri, Antonio
142, 234
Salomon, Generoso
112 n. 36
Schiller, Friedrich
204
Schiltberger, Johann
20
Schipano, Mario
20
Schlegel, Friedrich
378–379
Scudéry, Madeleine de
187
Semiramis
9, 15, 27, 29, 35–38, 79, 259–265, 267–268, 270, 273–274, 276, 281–282
Seneca
334
Serre, Ignace de la
236–237, 239, 257
Sicard, Père Claude
236
Slodtz, Michel-Ange
248
Slodtz, Paul-Ambroise
248
Slodtz, Sébastien-Antoine
248
Soranzo, Giovanni
58–59
Soufflot, Jacques-Germain
105–107, 129
Spencer, John
197
Spinoza, Baruch de
150–151, 153–157, 161, 163
Spon, Jacob
103
St. Augustine
18, 37
St. Jerome
37, 348 n. 11
St. John Chrysostomos
48
Strabo
32, 83–85, 196, 240
Sylvestre de Sacy, Antoine Isaac
126, 379
Terrasson, Jean, Abbé
8, 135–136, 140–142, 160, 185–190, 192–201, 203–204, 206–208, 236, 249–250, 252
Tesseire, Mme
272
Texeira, Pedro
18, 21
Thévenot, Jean de
107, 345
Tillotson, John
160
Tindal, Matthew
159
Toland, John
150, 155 n. 37, 159
Torquemada, Fray Juan de
298, 300, 304, 305 n. 65
Valerius Maximus
37
Van Heemskerck, Maarten
29
Van Valckenborch, Lucas
16
Van Valckenborch, Maarten
16
Vasari, Giorgio
35
Vecchietti, Girolamo
18
Villoteau, Guillaume André
234
Virgil
89, 140, 199–200, 204, 305
Vitruvius
105, 334
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
8–9, 38, 168 n. 2, 169–173, 174 n. 15, 175–177, 180–184, 202, 239–241, 244, 259–268, 270–271, 273, 274 n. 46, 275–276, 278, 281–282, 367, 369, 380
Von Haven, Frederik Christian
41
Von Muzell-Stosch, Heinrich Wilhelm
35
Von Stosch, Philipp
35
Vossius, Gerardus Johannes
354
Warburton, William
153–155, 161, 202–204, 246
Weidler, Johannes Frederic
315
Werndly, Georg Heinrich
352
Wheler, George
103
Wieland, Christoph Martin
204–205
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
35, 112
Wolff, Christian
158, 163, 164
Wood, Robert
102, 105–106, 108
Wünsch, Christian Ernst
162–164
Zardusht of Khuragan
183
Zoroaster
8, 167–169, 173, 175–184, 203, 267, 380