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Académie Royale des Sciences 19, 162
Accademia del Cimento 19
Aldrovandi, Ulisse 83, 103, 106
Aquinas, St. Thomas 20, 53, 54, 61, 73, 114
Archytas 109
Aristotelian physics 8, 9, 10, 45, 50, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 76, 97, 111, 119, 131, 176
Aristotelianism 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 17, 20, 21, 25, 45, 50, 54, 56, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 68, 69, 70, 72, 75, 76, 77, 85, 91, 95, 96, 98, 100, 114, 116, 117, 120, 121, 134, 136–8, 139, 141–2, 148, 152, 154, 162, 176, 181, 187–8
Aristotle 1, 3, 5, 8, 20, 22, 37, 53, 55, 56, 60, 76, 82–3, 84, 95, 100, 114, 115, 136, 138, 154, 187
Arrais, Duarte Madeira 56–7
artifice 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 34, 35, 91, 100, 106–7, 109–17, 119–21, 124–5, 126, 134, 139, 141, 145, 147, 150–53, 157, 159, 167–8, 173, 175–6, 177, 178–9, 180, 183–4, 186, 187, 189
astronomy 11, 15, 101, 131, 135, 139, 158, 171, 183
Avicenna 106
Bacon, Francis 2, 18, 162, 179
Bacon, Roger 60
Bonaventure, St. 6
Boyle, Robert 11, 19, 81, 91, 92, 102, 145–6, 152, 158, 159, 164, 169, 178, 181–2, 183, 186
cabala 184–5
Cabeo, Niccolò 7, 9, 13, 14, 45–7, 48, 49, 59, 61, 63–80, 84–5, 87–8, 96, 119, 122, 129, 133–4, 151, 152, 155, 159, 161, 176, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191
Philosophia magnetica 14, 46, 59, 63–80, 96, 119, 122, 133–4
Campanella, Tommaso 97
Cardano, Girolamo 83
Casati, Paolo 113
Casaubon, Isaac 98
Castel, Louis Bertrand 96
causation 1, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 47, 48, 54, 56, 58, 61, 62, 64, 67, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 81, 91, 125, 137, 151, 152, 154, 166, 187
Cavendish, Margaret 134
censors 4, 58, 138, 161, 164, 169
certainty 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 17, 19, 120, 121, 141–2, 145, 151, 159, 187
Clavius, Christoph 9, 10, 12, 14, 65, 92, 106, 190
Collegio Romano 14, 47, 81, 87, 89, 92, 95, 102, 103, 113, 119, 148, 175
Museum of the Collegio Romano, see Kircherian museum
crisis of certainty 17, 20, 22, 91, 190
D’Aguilon, François 96
Dal Pozzo, Cassiano 103
Daston, Lorraine 24
De Sepi, Giorgio 94, 95, 102–9, 111–16, 121, 124, 142
Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum Celeberrimum 94–5, 103–16
Dee, John 59
Del Rio, Martín Antonio 29, 30, 32–6, 101, 168, 178, 187, 190
Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex 29, 32–6, 101, 168
Della Mirandola, Giovanni Pico 185
Della Porta, Giambattista 40, 41, 66, 96–7, 171
Descartes, René 1, 2, 38, 110, 166
Digby, Kenelm 39
donkey choir 173
emblematics 123, 125–6, 128–9, 131–3, 149, 155, 178
Empedocles 126
empiricism 12, 17, 18, 21, 113, 120, 134, 187
Empiricus, Sextus, see Sextus Empiricus
experience 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 21, 24, 37, 95–6, 142, 151, 178
experiment 11, 12, 19, 37, 46, 53, 61, 62, 63, 65, 67, 73, 74, 79, 100, 102, 119, 144, 146, 147, 148–9, 150, 151, 152–4, 155, 156, 158, 163, 173, 177, 178, 179, 180–82
Fabri de Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude 89
Fernel, Jean 72–3
Findlen, Paula 93–4
Galilei, Galileo 46, 68, 136, 171
Gassendi, Pierre 37, 38, 53, 54, 84
Gesner, Konrad 83
Gilbert, William 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 74, 76, 79, 92, 122
Glanvill, Joseph 82
Goclenius, Rudolph, the Younger 45
Grienberger, Christoph 10, 92, 175
Guericke, Otto von 81, 163–4, 180–81, 183
Helmont, Jan Baptista van 37, 43, 44, 45, 50
Hermes Trismesgistus 98
imagery 5, 8, 13, 14, 78–80, 119, 120–21, 124, 129, 133–4, 135, 147, 149, 154–6, 158, 187, 188, 191
imagination 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 21–2, 128, 147, 155, 158–9, 186, 188
Jesuit spirituality 4, 6, 7, 8
Kepler, Johannes 92, 126, 136, 171
Kircher, Athanasius 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 44, 45, 47–50, 57, 59, 65, 81, 83, 84, 87–117, 119–59, 161–3, 164, 165–6, 167–8, 169, 173–5, 177–8, 180, 183–6, 187, 188, 190, 191
Ars magna lucis et umbrae 100–101, 119, 120, 134–45, 149, 159
Magnes; sive, De arte magnetica 47, 50, 87–9, 97, 100, 107, 109, 119, 120, 121–34, 135, 138, 147, 149, 152, 155, 157–8, 169, 178
Mundus subterraneus 100, 119, 120, 135, 145–59, 168, 178, 180, 183
Phonurgia nova 100
Kircherian museum 10, 87, 89–96, 101–17, 119, 120, 121, 123–4, 126, 139, 141, 145, 153, 161, 182, 186, 188, 189, 190
Knittel, Caspar 190
Kunstkammern 25
Kyper, Albert 31
Lana de Terzi, Francesco 57, 59, 151, 189
Libavius, Andreas 41
Lipsius, Justus 32
lodestone, see magnet
Loyola, St. Ignatius 3, 4, 6, 12, 14, 56, 188
Spiritual Exercises 6, 7, 12, 14, 188
Ludolph of Saxony 6
magic 25, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35, 42, 91, 96–101, 103, 123–4, 131, 161, 165–6, 167–9, 176–7, 185
magnet 13, 14, 17, 30, 34, 39, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 51, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64–80, 81, 83, 96, 98, 101, 107–10, 114–16, 119, 120, 121–34, 138, 139, 145, 155, 157, 159, 176, 177, 185, 190
Maricourt, Pierre de, see Peregrinus, Peter
marvels 24, 25, 26, 35–6, 54, 81–2, 89, 100–101, 154–5, 161–4, 173, 180, 182, 184, 189
mathematics 8–11, 46, 65, 91, 94, 101, 102, 107, 111, 115, 166, 175–6
meditation 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 115, 119, 120, 121, 129, 147, 151, 154, 159
Merton, Robert 3
microscope 21, 120, 139, 141, 169–71, 187
miracles 23, 24, 26, 31, 34, 35, 36, 49, 191
multiplication of species 77, 122–3
Nifo, Agostino 64
occult qualities 12, 24, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 64, 71, 73, 74, 78–9, 85, 152, 187, 188
Oldenburg, Henry 92, 102, 142, 145–6, 152, 158, 159
ontology 6, 10, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 35, 36, 38, 42, 44, 45, 48, 50, 54, 55, 58, 82, 84, 106, 163, 166–7, 178, 187
Ordinatio pro studiis superioribus 50, 85, 176, 190
palingenesis 102–3
Park, Katharine 24
Peiresc, see Fabri de Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude
Perapateticism, see Aristotelianism
Petrucci, Gioseffo 190
phosphorescence 126, 135, 143–4, 177
Pompanazzi, Pietro 64
powder of sympathy, see weapon salve
preternatural 5, 22–7, 29, 30, 35, 36, 58, 59, 82, 84, 162–3
probabilism 2, 10, 17, 19, 20, 21, 33, 64, 91, 116, 119, 145, 147, 148, 151, 153, 156–7, 159, 188
Pyrrho of Elis 1
Ratio studiorum 9
Rattray, Sylvester 41
remora 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 81–4, 161, 164
Riccioli, Giovanni Battista 95, 171
Royal Society of London 2, 11, 19, 91, 142–4, 145–6, 147, 162, 169, 178
Scaliger, Julius Caesar 55, 57, 83
Scheiner, Christoph 11, 12, 14, 15, 95, 136, 139, 158
Schott, Gaspar 9, 13, 14, 15, 81–4, 142, 151, 161–86, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191
Magia universalis naturae et artis 161, 165–79, 180, 182
Physica curiosa 81–4, 161, 166
Technica curiosa 161, 176, 177, 179–86
Scientific Revolution 2
senses 1, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 33, 91, 93, 103, 113–17, 119, 135, 139, 145, 189
skepticism 1, 17, 18, 20, 21, 91, 113, 117, 187
spectacle 13, 87, 89, 91, 93, 98, 102, 103, 107, 109–10, 114, 119, 125, 126, 129, 133, 135, 142–5, 161, 177, 182, 188, 189, 191
Spinoza, Benedict 146
Sprat, Thomas 143–4
teleology 70
telescope 11, 12, 21, 120, 139, 158, 169–71, 187
universal languages 184
weapon salve 30, 36–51, 54, 58, 75, 78, 83, 178, 188
Webster, John 31
Wenckh, Gaspar 45
Wilkins, John 143
Wren, Christopher 142–4