Name Index

Abercromby, David 12, 15, 19, 34, 39, 178, 227
Adam 116, 117, 125, 189
Aegidio Romano 41
Akehurst, Alexander 41
Albertus Magnus 18
Alexander of Hales 36
Alsted, Johann Heinrich 89
Ames, William 33, 49, 55, 88–9, 228
Amyraut, Moïse 55
Angers, university 53
Anne, Queen 217
Aristotle 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 22, 58, 61, 62, 63, 72–7, 80–2, 84–91, 97, 102, 105, 106, 110, 117, 123, 124, 137, 162–3, 165, 163, 164, 174, 179, 206, 220, 229
and curriculum 14, 28, 29, 33–8, 42, 43, 44, 45, 73–4, 76, 77
Categories 33, 43, 77, 85, 89, 106
Nichomachean ethics 38
Organon 11, 28, 33, 36, 37, 76
Rhetoric 77
Physics 10, 14, 40, 41 See also Aristotelianism
Arnauld, Antoine 12, 37, 68, 194, 214
Arriaga, Jorge Hernández 34
Ashe, St George 46
Astell, Mary 21, 22, 56, 198, 115, 216, 217–18, 219, 227, 237
Atterbury, Francis 22, 45, 69
Attwood, William 198
Aubrey, John 70, 74, 76, 102, 120, 129
Augustine of Hippo 58, 127
Ayleworth, William 43

Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Albans 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33, 36, 40, 41, 51, 52, 54, 56, 58, 62, 66, 72, 73, 74–5, 76, 85, 87, 89–91, 92–104, 105, 111, 112–13, 119, 120, 129, 142, 160, 161, 163, 164, 165, 169, 174, 180, 181, 186, 224, 225, 227, 234
classification of knowledge 98–9
critique of Aristotle 89–91, 163, 164
epistemology 85, 94–5, 98–102
‘idols’ 97, 101
induction 98, 100, 103, 130, 165, 174
intellectual milieu 94–5
metaphysics 16, 99–100
method 18, 99–100, 103, 112–13, 164, 174
moral philosophy 90, 93, 96, 98, 100–2
natural philosophy 93, 94–5, 97, 99, 102, 112, 120, 164, 165, 169
reception and influence 17, 18, 23, 34, 36, 61, 73, 93, 101–13, 109, 160, 174, 180, 185, 186, 224, 225, 227, 234
reform of philosophy 95–8
Advancement of Learning 20, 33, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101
Essayes  40, 94, 97, 101, 102, 119, 129
New Atlantis 23, 97, 101, 102
Novum organum  11–12, 36, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 100, 102, 104
Sylva sylvarum  36, 51, 62, 95, 97, 102
Bagshaw, Edward 45, 129
Baillie, Robert 45, 68, 128
Balfour, Robert 87
Balguy, John 153, 213
Bañez, Domingo (Dominicus) 40
Banks, Caleb 54, 235
Barbeyrac, Jean 158, 205
Barclay, William 115, 117
Barlow, Thomas 22, 24, 32, 33, 39, 41, 45, 62, 74, 76, 85, 129
Barnes, Joshua 44
Baron, Robert 42, 46, 48, 75, 76, 77, 227
Basnage de Beauval, Henri 57, 150, 205
Basset, Sir Robert 234
Bathurst, Ralph 45, 129
Baudoin, Jean 101
Bayle, Pierre 134, 150, 202, 206, 224, 230, 241
Beeckman, Isaac 103
Bentley, Richard 162, 198, 212,
Berkeley, George 4, 46, 49, 69, 89, 197, 203, 208, 214, 202, 220–2, 227
Bernard, Edward 45
Bernier, François 54
Berns, Michael 109
Beurhaus, Friedrich 36
Bèze (Beza), Théodore de 55
Birch, Thomas 141, 220
Blacklo, see White
Blaeu, Joan 133
Blair, William 42, 46
Blome, Richard 67
Blount, Charles 14, 69, 71, 109, 112, 130, 208, 209, 210, 228
Bodin, Jean 115, 117, 121
Boethius 33
Bohun, Ralph 77
Boileau-Despreaux, Nicolas 57
Boldero, Edward 43
Bonet, Théophile 67n, 235
Bonville, Anthony 54
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne 134
Boswell, Sir William 53, 110, 236
Boyle, Robert 3, 5, 14, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 41, 45, 54, 57, 62, 63, 70, 103, 126, 158, 160–1, 164, 167, 169, 171, 172–8, 180, 181, 182, 184, 187, 191, 193, 227, 228, 229, 239
corpuscular philosophy 172–3, 174–7, 178
mechanical philosophy 163, 173, 174, 183, 185
response to Hobbes 129, 135
reception and influence 142, 145, 150, 178, 182–4, 185, 193, 224
religious interests/natural theology 161–2, 172, 173–4, 177
on hypothesis 176–7 see also Boyle Lectures
Brandenburg, Elector of 53
Bradwardine, Thomas 74
Bramhall, John 25, 91, 148 , 228, 234, 239;
debate with Hobbes 127–8
Brerewood, Edward, 35
Browne, Peter 69
Bruno, Giordano 17, 167, 168, 211
Buchanan, George 115, 117
Burgersdijk, Franco 35, 36, 37, 38, 42, 43, 45, 46, 75, 79, 80, 110, 111, 240
Buridan, Jean 18, 39, 74
Burghley, see Cecil
Burley, Walter 73
Burnet, Elizabeth 241
Burnet, Gilbert 128, 151, 230, 242
Burnet, Thomas 54, 196, 204
Burnet of Kemnay, Thomas 197, 206
Burnett, James, Lord Monboddo 212
Burridge, Ezekiel 205
Burthogge, Richard 2, 19, 21, 53, 69, 70, 112, 152, 179, 197, 221, 228
Burton, Hezekiah 140

Cajetan, Thomas 39, 76
Cameron, John 55
Campanella, Tommaso 17, 22, 41, 111, 165, 174
Cardano, Girolamo 164
Carmichael, Gershom 14, 37, 38, 41, 44, 46, 47, 64, 208, 228
Carneades 64
Caroline, Queen 227, 229
Carpenter, Nathaniel 20, 41, 229
Carroll, William 71
Case, John 8–10, 39, 73–5, 78, 229
Cassiano dal Pozzo 103
Castellio, Sebastian 170
Catherine of Braganza, Queen 231
Cavellus, see Macaughwell
Cavendish, Sir Charles 55, 62, 120, 238
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle 21, 22, 51–2, 68, 130, 171, 180, 216–17, 229;
and Hobbes 130–1, 171
Cavendish, William, Duke of Newcastle 120, 130, 228, 238
Cecil, William, Lord Burghley 95
Chaderton, Laurence 88
Charles I, King 117, 118, 229, 233
Charles II, King 229, 236
Charleton, Walter 5, 14, 20, 21, 22, 25, 61–2, 130, 146, 161–2, 167, 170–2, 182, 209–10, 225, 229
and Epicureanism 171
and Gassendi 171–2
and Hobbes 128
Charpentier (Carpentarius), Jacques 137
Charron, Pierre 60, 105
Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnier de Breteuil, Marquise du 193
Chillingworth, William 170
Chouet, Petrus and Jacobus 60
Chudleigh, Mary 215, 237
Cicero 11, 30, 39, 40, 60, 63, 64, 72, 155
Clairaut, Alexis Claude 183
Clarke, John 66, 229
Clarke, Samuel 66, 70, 153, 159, 162, 178, 183, 208, 210, 212–13, 220, 221, 225, 229, 242
and Newton 183, 213
and Leibniz 183, 213, 229
Clauberg, Johannes 35, 41, 42, 45, 46, 80
Clement of Alexandra, St 58, 142
Clerke, Gilbert 66
Clodius, Frederick 174
Cockburn, Alexander 70
Cockburn, Catharine, see Trotter-Cockburn, Catharine
Cockburn, Patrick 241
Codrington, Christopher 69
Coimbra Commentators 37, 39, 41, 45, 73, 76, 78
Colerus, Jean 71
Collier, Arthur 21, 69, 91, 214, 220–1, 230
Collier, William 69
Collins, Anthony 209–10, 221, 229, 230, 235, 241
Combachius, Johannes 42
Comenius, Johannes (Jan Amos Komensky) 102, 111, 238
Compton, Thomas Carleton 42, 46, 54, 230
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot, Abbé de 206
Conway, Lady Anne, Viscountess 21, 22, 56, 68, 70, 131, 138, 151, 152–3, 181, 211, 216, 230, 232, 236
Conway, Edward, Viscount 22, 23, 29, 239
Cooper, Anthony Ashley, first Earl of Shaftesbury 55, 188, 191, 201, 232, 235
Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third Earl of Shaftesbury 4, 8–10, 14, 16, 21, 59, 140, 141, 151, 153, 159, 188, 208, 209–10, 211–12, 213, 220, 224, 228, 230, 235, 241
and Cambridge Platonists 140, 141, 150, 153, 159, 212, 241
and Locke 211–12
moral sense 14, 212, 220
Copernicus, Nicolaus 17, 20
Coste, Pierre 205, 206, 214, 219, 230
Cotes, Roger 30, 213
Cotton, Charles 60
Cotton, John 89
Coward, William 198
Cowley, Abraham 114
Craig, John 53
Crakanthorpe 38, 42
Creighton, Robert 47
Crell, Johannes 39, 40
Cromwell, Oliver 47, 117, 140, 231, 233, 240, 241, 242
Crousaz, Jean Pierre 205
Cudworth, Damaris, see Masham, Damaris
Cudworth, Ralph 2, 12, 14, 17, 22, 24, 47, 49, 59, 70, 139, 140–58, 154, 167, 171, 179, 181, 192, 194, 197, 200, 212, 213, 218, 222, 224, 225, 230–1, 236, 241
and Hobbes 131–3
and Cumberland 154, 156–7
and Locke 153–4
and Shaftesbury 153–4
plastic nature 148–50, 179, 224
reception 151–4
True Intellectual System 19, 49, 57, 108, 132, 141, 143, 145, 150, 151, 154, 158, 194
A Treatise 133, 141, 143, 145, 146, 151, 154, 156, 158, 224
Culverwell, Nathaniel 22, 112, 137, 138, 140–2, 150, 154, 156n, 231, 241
Cumberland, Richard 5, 13, 40, 131, 133, 136, 154–9, 178, 208, 224, 231
Cureau de la Chambre 40, 57

Dalgarno, George 77
Dalrymple, James, Viscount Stair 14, 20, 21, 55, 70, 146, 169, 231
Davenport, Christopher (Franciscus à Sancta Clara) 81, 231
Davies, John, of Kidwelly 57, 127
De Dominis, Marc’Antonio 101, 115, 117, 119
De la Court, Johan Pieter 134
De Serres, Jean (Serranus) 59
Democritus 19, 172n, 175; see also Democritean atomism
Derham, William 162, 212
Descartes, René 1, 4, 18, 22, 23, 29, 36, 51, 52, 56, 58, 62–3, 73, 76, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 91, 102, 103, 104, 107, 130–1, 135, 139, 142, 143–4, 147, 149, 152, 157, 159, 162, 163, 164–7, 170, 171–2, 174, 179, 181, 182, 198, 202, 217, 231, 235, 237, 239
reception in Britain 11–13, 16–19, 64–8
and Herbert 110–11, 112, 113
and Hobbes 120–2
and More 65–6, 141–2, 148, 236
and Newton 182
and Locke 185, 186, 195
in universities 29, 36, 40–7, 65
Discours 51, 65, 215
Meditations 16, 43, 52, 65, 120, 171
Principia philosophiae 74, 165 see also Cartesianism
Des Maizeaux, Pierre 230
Dibon, Paul 80
Diodati, Élie 94, 110
Diogenes Laertius 61, 172
Diderot, Denis 150, 197, 212, 223, 224
Diepenbeck, Abraham van 51
Digby, Everard 52, 88, 137
Digby, Kenelm 22, 41, 44, 52, 62, 65, 66, 72, 80, 81, 82, 83–5, 86, 102, 120, 128, 157, 164, 167, 171, 174, 182, 198, 229, 231, 232
Dionysius the Areopagite (Pseudo-Dionysius) 59, 138
Dodwell, Henry 210, 215, 229, 230
Donaldson, Walter 54, 55, 75, 78, 232
Doni, Agostino 94
Downame, George 88
Drebbel, Cornelius 94
Du Hamel, Jean Baptiste 19, 41
Dun, Patrick 53
Duns Scotus, John 80–1, 236, 238, 241
Duncan, Mark (Marc) 54, 78, 79, 80, 232
Du Trieu 35, 36, 62
Duport, James 47
Duppa, Brian 45
Durandus de St Pourçain 76
Dury (Durie), John 28
Du Vair, Guillaume 60

Earbery, Matthias 71
Edwards, John 196, 198, 199
Edwards, Jonathan 47, 212
Elisabeth, Princess 1n
Ent, George 233
Epicurus 19, 61, 62, 67, 132, 171, 172
Epictetus 33, 39, 57, 162
Eschenbach, J.C. 221
Estienne, Henri (Stephanus) 59, 60
Euclid 106, 120, 122, 129
Eustachio a Sancto Paulo (Eustachius of Sancto Paolo) 39, 43, 46, 81
Evelyn, John 61n, 77, 102

Fairfax, Nathaniel 53
Fall, James 71
Fernel, Jean 20
Filmer, Robert 77, 116–18, 125, 130, 189
Finch, Sir John 53, 180, 230, 232, 236
FitzSimon, Henry 54
Flamsteed, John 237
Fleming, George 37, 40, 41
Fleming, Henry 41
Fludd, Robert 98, 232
Fonseca, Pedro da 37, 76
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de 237
Forbes, Robert 43, 67
Fordyce, David 242
Fortin de la Hoguette 94
Fowler, Edward 151
Franciscus à Sancta Clara, see Davenport
Frommenius, Andreas 42
Furly, Benjamin 22, 26, 70, 188, 230

Gale, Theophilus 48, 49
Gale, Thomas 140
Galen 60
Galileo Galilei 17, 44, 81, 83, 94, 102, 103, 119, 163, 165, 166, 172, 174, 182
Gassendi, Pierre 1, 4, 17, 20, 22, 35, 52, 54, 56, 61–2, 71, 82, 87, 93, 102, 103, 104, 107, 110, 111, 113, 120, 122, 143, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 169, 171–2, 174, 182, 185, 210n, 232
and Charleton 20, 167, 171–2
and Epicurus 61–2, 171–2
and universities 41, 44–6
Gastrell, Francis 203
George Elector of Hanover, and King of Britain 7
Geulincx, Arnold 152
Gilbert, William 14, 17, 84, 94, 97, 165, 229, 232
Glanvill (Glanville), Joseph 23, 30, 61, 83, 90, 91, 129, 145, 152, 162, 164, 170, 176, 182, 232
Glisson, Francis 21, 22, 41, 178, 180–1, 198, 232–3, 232
Goclenius, Rudoph 18
Goddard, Jonathan 232, 233
Goodwin, Thomas 48
Gowan, Thomas 35, 233
Gregory, James 30
Gregory, David 41, 42, 48
Gregory of Valencia 39
Greville, Fulke 233
Greville, Robert, Lord Brooke 27, 137, 140, 233, 240
Grew, Nehemiah 150, 162, 179, 233
Groningen 54, 78, 236
Grotius (de Groot), Hugo 4, 23, 40, 56, 59, 63–4, 71, 76, 77, 79, 104, 108, 116, 117, 123, 125, 154, 155, 158
Gruter, Isaac 102
Gruter, Jacob 102
Guienne, Provincial College de Guienne 88
Guilleminot, Jean 34

Hale, Sir Matthew 21, 150, 179, 232, 233
Hall, John 73
Hall, John, of Richmond 129
Hallywell, Henry 112
Halyburton, Thomas 109, 204
Harley, Robert, Earl of Oxford 241
Harrington, James 21, 116, 118, 129, 211, 233–4
Harriot, Thomas 167–8, 234
Harris, John 14, 19, 164
Hartlib, Samuel 55, 56, 66, 111, 174, 238; see also Hartlib circle
Harvey, Gabriel 88
Harvey, William 17, 74, 83, 84, 94, 120, 166, 168, 229, 232
Heereboord, Adrian 19, 40, 41, 55, 65, 79, 80, 81, 102, 134
Heidanus, Abraham 79
Heinsius, Daniel 111
Helmont, Francis Mercurius 138, 153, 230
Helmont, Jan Baptiste 131, 171, 174, 179, 181
Henrietta Maria, Queen 231
Henry IV, King of France 107
Herbert of Cherbury, Edward, Lord 2, 3, 4, 5, 20, 21, 22, 26, 38, 40, 52, 53, 56, 59, 62, 63, 65, 71, 92–3, 94, 103–13, 120, 137, 146, 192, 204, 210, 224, 225, 228, 234
reception and influence 109–13, 210, 224, 225, 228
and Descartes 104, 107, 110, 113
and Gassendi 104, 107, 110, 111, 113
and Locke 111, 113, 192
and religious toleration 107–8, 113
De veritate  103–7, 110, 111, 137, 234
Herbert, George 93, 234
Herder, Johann Gottfried 224
Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetic philosophy 19, 138, 232
Hervet, Gentian 60
Hill, Nicholas 18, 167–8, 234
Hobbes, Thomas 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 13, 16, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 30, 32, 45, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 70, 71, 74, 80, 82, 85, 91, 92, 95, 102, 109, 111, 113, 114, 116, 118–35, 136, 139, 142, 143, 144, 154–6, 157, 158, 159, 160, 163, 165, 165–6, 168, 171, 172, 174, 178, 185, 185, 187, 190, 199, 200, 209, 216, 228, 229, 231, 234, 237, 238
and Bramhall 127–8
and Cavendish 130–1
and Cudworth 131–3, 155–8
and Cumberland 131, 133, 154–6
moral philosophy 121–2, 125–6, 129, 132, 135, 139, 141, 147–8
natural philosophy 114, 118, 120, 121, 122, 126, 132, 133, 134, 166–7
political philosophy 121–2, 123–5, 132, 134–5
reception and influence 126–35, 142–4, 171, 185–6, 199, 210, 211–12, 213, 220, 222, 225
De Cive 119, 121, 122, 130, 132, 134, 234
De homine 119, 121, 234
Elements of Law 121, 133, 141
Elements of Philosophy 121, 122, 123, 132
Leviathan 23, 57, 111, 113, 115, 118, 121, 122, 123, 126, 129, 130, 132, 133, 134, 135, 199, 234
Holbach, Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach 134
Holdsworth, Richard 37, 44, 76, 154n
Holdsworth, Winch 204
Homer 33, 119
Hooke, Robert 28, 66, 150, 161, 160, 169, 233, 237
Hooker, Richard 74, 123
Hooker, Thomas 88, 238
Hotman, François 115
Howie, Robert 87–8
Hübner, Joachim 111
Huet, Pierre Daniel 66
Hume, David 184, 213
Hutcheson, Francis 159, 212, 220
Hutchinson, Lucy 61n
Huygens , Christiaan 102, 134, 185
Huygens, Constantijn 94, 103
Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon 34

Iamblichus 33
Ingelo, Nathaniel 23, 140

Jack (Jaccheus), Gilbert 22, 42, 54, 75, 78–80, 87, 234
Jackson, Thomas, 137
James VI & I, King 7, 8, 55, 115
James VII & II, King 1, 7, 55, 236, 237, 240
James, Duke of York 188
James, Thomas 60
Janet, Paul 150
Jeanes, Henry 49
Jefferson, Thomas 212
John Scottus Eriugena 59
Johnson, Samuel 89, 212
Jungius, Joachim 16n, 55, 103, 106n, 137n

Keckerman, Bartholomaeus 35, 36, 37, 45, 46, 89
Kepler, Johannes 94, 165, 167, 168, 232, 234
Keill, John 14, 41, 69, 164
Knolles, Richard 115
Knorr von Rosenroth 138, 230, 237
Korholt, Christian 71, 109

La Mettrie, Julien Offray de 197, 205
La Mothe, Le Vayer, François de 105
La Pillonière, François 55
La Ramée, see Ramus
Launay, Gilles de 54
Law, William 138
Layton, Henry 198
Le Clerc, Jean 41, 42, 44, 46, 49, 57, 150, 151, 188, 197, 205, 219, 230, 236
Lead, Jane 138
Lee, Henry 202–3
Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van 45
Le Grand, Antoine 12n, 44, 45, 46, 61, 67, 81, 235
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1, 8, 18, 56, 103, 134, 151, 153, 178, 183, 188, 197, 206, 211, 213, 219, 220, 229, 236, 237, 241
Leighton, Robert 53, 60n, 151
Lennard, Samson 60
Le Vasseur, Michel 55, 68
Lessing, Gotthold 224
Lewis, William 109
Lhwyd (Lhuyd), Edward 238
Liceti, Fortunio 104
Liddel, Duncan 53, 54
Limborch, Philip van 188, 230
Line, Francis (Franciscus Linus) 177
Lips, Joost (Justus Lipsius) 60
Locke, John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 13, 14, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 34, 35, 37, 38, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 62, 63, 64, 67, 69, 70, 71, 77, 86, 87, 91, 111, 112, 117, 118, 140, 146, 150, 153, 154, 158–9, 162, 163, 172, 174, 178, 182, 184, 185–207, 208–9, 210–11, 214, 215, 216, 218, 219, 220, 221–2, 224, 228, 230, 235, 236, 237, 239, 240, 241
and religious toleration 185, 187, 188, 189, 191, 204, 206–7
and Stillingfleet 195, 106, 201–12
and universities 28, 30, 32, 36, 41, 46–7, 196
charge of scepticism 25, 86, 214, 198–203, 205, 206, 221–2
moral philosophy 187, 190, 191, 194, 195–6, 197, 198, 199, 204
political philosophy 189–91
reception and influence 46–7, 56, 57, 86–7, 91, 101, 112, 146, 158–9, 162, 178, 196–206, 208–15, 219, 220, 221–2, 224
Epistola de tolerantia 188, 189
Essay concerning Human Understanding 12, 16, 37, 47, 56, 111, 153, 159, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 191–6, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 210, 214, 219, 220
Essay Concerning Toleration 188, 191
Reasonableness of Christianity 188, 198, 205
Thoughts concerning Education 188, 195, 196, 205
Two Treatises  47, 117, 185, 187, 188, 189–90, 191, 197, 198, 205
Lockey, Thomas 22
Loftus, Dudley 35
Lowde, James 69, 157, 196, 200
Lower, Richard 133, 180
Lucretius Carus 16, 171
Ludlow, Edmund 118, 211
Lull, Ramon 36, 111

Macaughwell, Hugh (Hugo Cavellus) 54, 80, 235
Machiavelli, Niccolo 74, 116, 118, 121
Mackintosh, Sir James 221
MacIlmaine, Roland 87
Mackenzie, Sir George, of Rosehaugh 21, 53, 60, 236
Magirus, Johannes 37, 182
Magnen, Jean 41
Makdowel (Macdowell), William 54, 78, 236
Malebranche, Nicholas 16, 46, 55, 67, 68–9, 103, 152, 185, 197, 208, 213–17, 219, 220–2, 224
Marcombes, Isaac 54, 228
Marcus Aurelius 33, 39
Mariana, Juan de 125
Marsh, Narcissus 22, 35, 48
Marsilius of Inghen 18
Martin, James (Jacobus Martinus, Jacques Martin) 41, 87
Martinez, Gregorius 39
Mary II, Queen 151
Mary, Queen of Scots 117
Masham, Damaris, Lady (née Cudworth) 21, 22, 56, 57, 150, 153, 186, 197, 208, 216, 218–19, 231, 235, 236, 237
Mather, Cotton and Increase 89
Matthew, Tobie 101
Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de 183
Maurice of Nassau 107
Maxwell, John 158
Mayow, John 180
Medici, Leopoldo de 53, 232
Medina, Bartolomé 39
Melanchthon, Philip 106, 136
Melville, Andrew 28, 43, 55, 87, 88
Mendoza, Pedro Hurtado de 40
Merrett, Christopher 232
Mersenne, Marin 26n, 44, 52, 76n, 81, 85, 93, 103, 104, 110, 120, 137n, 166, 168, 174, 232; see also Mersenne circle
Milton, John 40, 88, 116, 118, 211
Molina, Luis de 76, 78, 125, 127
Molinetti, Antonio 232
Molyneux, William 42, 46, 47, 49, 55, 65, 69, 169, 194, 195, 197, 214, 221
Monboddo, see Burnett, James
Monck, General George, Duke of Albermarle 29
Montaigne, Michel de 60, 105, 224
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, 212, 224
Montmor, Académie de 120, 234
Moor, Michael (Morus) 54, 80, 236
More, Henry 2, 13, 16, 22, 23, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 52, 56, 57, 60, 65–6, 91, 129, 131–2, 147n, 139, 140–53, 141, 145, 154, 155, 157, 158, 159, 161, 167, 177, 179, 181, 182, 192, 198, 200, 214, 217, 225, 230, 231, 232, 236–7, 239
and Descartes 13, 22, 37, 52, 56, 65–6, 67, 141, 179
and Hobbes, 129, 131–2
and Spinoza 70–1
and universities 40, 41, 43, 42, 65–6
boniform faculty 14, 148
metaphysics 16, 42, 143, 148–50
moral philosophy 13–14, 40, 43, 45, 46, 147–8, 158
spirit of nature (Hylarchic Spirit) 148–50, 177, 179
reception and influence 150–2, 157–9, 177, 179, 198, 200, 214, 217, 225
Antidote against Atheism 141, 146, 161, 236
Immortality of the Soul 46, 132, 141, 145, 146
Enchiridion ethicum 13, 40, 43, 141, 145, 151, 154, 158, 237
Enchiridion metaphysicum  16, 42, 148, 237
Mornay, Philippe du Plessis 108
Mosheim, Johan Lorenz 151, 224
Murdison, John 54, 78, 237
Mydorge, Claude 52, 55

Nairn, James 22, 70, 151
Naudé, Gabriel 112
Nedham, Marchmont 118
Needham, Walter 41
Neville, Henry 116, 118
Newton, Isaac 7, 14, 19, 28, 30, 41, 45, 48, 66, 75, 92, 136, 148, 153, 160, 161, 162, 178, 181–4, 185, 186, 187, 200, 213, 224, 229, 235, 237
reception and influence 183–4, 213
and Leibniz 178, 183, 229
Nicholas of Cusa 59
Nicole, Pierre 12, 37, 40, 54
Nidd, John 41, 238
Norris, John 2, 21, 56, 59, 69, 151, 152, 199–200, 208, 214–9, 220, 221, 227, 237
North, John 59
North, Roger 34
Nye, Stephen 198

Oldenburg, Henry 53, 70, 178
Oratorians 54, 236
Origen (Origenes Adamantius) 58, 138, 142, 153, 232, 237
Oughtred, William 182
Overton, Richard 118
Owen, John 48, 128

Pace (Pacius), Giulio 73
Paracelsus 98; see also Parker, Samuel 45, 67, 130, 138, 158, 235, 237
Parma, University of 54
Pascal, Blaise 178
Patrick, Simon 141, 151, 240
Patrizi, Francesco 17, 167, 168
Pavonius, Franciscus 39
Payne, Robert 111, 120, 168, 238
Payne, William 203
Percy, Henry, Earl of Northumberland (‘wizard earl’) 234; see also Northumberland Circle
Peirera, Benedictus 41
Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri di 103, 104
Perkins, William 88
Peter of Spain (Petrus Hispanus) 36
Petty, Sir William 62, 120
Pinck, Robert 77
Piscator, Johannes 36, 78, 87, 88
Plato 19, 22, 33, 39, 40, 58, 59, 89, 97, 105, 133, 142, 147, 149, 152, 159, 168, 224
Plot, Robert 41
Plotinus 17, 22, 59, 142, 148, 150, 159
Plutarch 39
Pomponazzi, Pietro 91
Popham, Alexander 187
Popple, William 65
Pordage, John 138
Porphyry 28, 33, 36, 37
Poulain de la Barre, François 218
Powel, Griffith 74
Power, Henry 181, 238
Preston, John 88
Prideaux, John 38
Price, Richard 153–4, 159
Proast, Jonas 189
Protagoras 132, 133
Pufendorf, Samuel 46, 47, 49, 64, 77, 114, 129, 134, 154, 158, 205, 228
Punch (Ponce, Poncius), John 54, 80, 238
Pyrrho 60, 61, 72, 105

Raey, Johannes de 102, 134
Rainolds, John 74
Ramus, Petrus (Pierre de la Ramée) 11, 12, 28, 32, 36, 37, 38, 45, 72, 87, 88, 89, 91, 238; see also Ramism
Raphson, Joseph 211
Rawley, William 95, 101
Rave, Johann 238
Ray, John 41, 150, 162, 169, 179, 238
Regis, Pierre-Sylvan 44, 68
Reneri, Henricus 79
Revius, Jacobus 55, 79, 240
Reynolds, Edward 40
Richardson, Alexander 88, 89, 238
Richardson, Samuel 215
Ritschel, George 16, 42, 102, 137, 238
Rohault, Jacques 42, 44, 45, 66–7, 229, 235
Rollock, Robert 28, 88
Ross, Alexander 80, 87
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 64
Rubio (Ruvius, Ruvio), Antonio 34, 35, 40, 41, 76
Rust, George 112, 140, 142, 145, 239
Rutherford, Donald 1
Rutherford, Samuel 117, 239
Rutherforth, Thomas 220
Ruvio, Ruvius see Rubio

Sadler, John 137n, 140
Sall, Andrew 54, 239
Sanchez, Francisco 111
Sand, Christoph 57
Sanderson, Robert 31, 35, 36, 38, 39, 41, 43, 47, 80, 163, 239
Saravia, Hadrian 115
Sarpi, Paolo 17, 120
Sault, Richard 68, 215
Saumaise, Claude 104, 111
Savile, Henry 74
Scarborough, Charles 232
Scheibler, Christoph 37, 42, 43, 45, 75, 76
Schmitt, Charles 73, 74, 75
Schuler, Johannes 67
Scotus, see Duns Scotus, John
Scottus, see John Scottus
Scougal, Henry 45, 128, 151, 239
Scribonius, Wilhelm 37
Seneca 30, 33, 39, 60, 67
Selden, John 30, 64, 65, 128, 154
Sennert, Daniel 20, 41
Sergeant, John 15, 67, 69, 81, 82, 85–7, 91, 202–3, 235, 239, 242
Serranus, see De Serres, Jean
Severinus, Petrus 27
Sextus Empiricus 22, 60, 61
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl, see Cooper, Anthony Ashley
Sherlock, William 146, 199, 203–4
Sherman, John 140
Shipton, James 69
Sibbald, Robert 53, 85
Sidney, Algernon 118, 211, 239
Silhon, Jean de 105
Sixsmith, Thomas 40
Skelton, Philip 109
Smiglecki, Martin (Marcin Smiglecius) 35, 37, 38
Smith, John 140, 141, 144, 240, 241
Smith, Samuel 35
Soerensen, Peder, see Severinus
Sophia von Brunswick Lüneberg, Electress of Hanover 8, 211, 241
Sophie-Charlotte, Queen of Prussia 8n., 211, 241
Sorbière, Samuel 52, 120, 133
South, Robert 204
Southwell, Robert 34
Spinoza, Baruch de 1, 22, 69–71, 80, 109, 126, 131, 135, 139, 142, 144, 178, 181, 200, 210, 211, 228
Stahl, Peter 28
Stair, Viscount, see Dalrymple
Stanley, Thomas 10, 14, 17, 18, 62
Starkey, George 174
Steele, Richard 69
Stephanus, see Estienne, Henri
Sterry, Nathaniel 39
Sterry, Peter 39, 137, 138, 140, 141, 240, 241
Steuart, Adam 54, 78, 79, 240
Stewart, Dugald 213, 221, 225n
Stier, Johann 40, 42
Stiles, Ezra 212
Stillingfleet, Edward 22, 25, 48, 70, 71, 91, 130, 162, 192, 195, 196, 200–2, 206, 211, 235, 239, 240
Stobaeus 33
Strato 19
Stubbe, Henry 45, 128
Sturm, Johann Christoph 150, 151
Suarez, Francisco 12, 15, 39, 42, 46, 49, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 116, 117, 127, 154n
Sydenham, Thomas 21, 28, 41, 187, 191, 235

Tacitus 30
Talbot, Peter 54
Talbot, Richard, Earl of Tyrconnell 236
Taylor, Jeremy 239
Taylor, Thomas 68, 69
Telesio, Bernadino 41, 94, 97, 164, 165, 167, 174
Temple, Sir William 46, 88
Tenison, Thomas 17–18, 93
Theognis of Megara 33
Thuycidides 30
Tilenus, Daniel 104
Tillotson, John 22, 151, 239
Tindal, Matthew 199, 210, 230, 235, 240
Thomas Aquinas 18, 39, 63, 73, 75, 76
Toland, John 2, 71, 87, 118, 198, 199, 201, 203, 206, 209–11, 212, 213, 230, 240–1
Toletus, Franciscus 41, 45
Towers, John 158
Tran, John 52, 77
Trotter Cockburn, Catharine 21, 22, 197, 204–5, 208, 219–20, 241
Troughton, John 47
Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfied Walther von 12
Tuckney, Anthony 130
Turnbull, George 212
Turnèbe, Adrien 87
Tyrell, James 117, 135, 158–9, 191, 197, 210, 231, 241

Urban VIII, Pope 111

Valentia, Gregory of 15
Vasquez, Gabriel 15, 39, 42, 46, 76
Viète, François (Franciscus Vieta) 106n, 168, 182
Vitoria, Francisco 125
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet, dit 103, 183, 205, 223, 224
Voetius, Gisbertus (Gisbert Voet) 45, 79, 240
Vorst, Conrad (Vorstius) 76, 78
Vossius (Vos), Gerard and Isaac 104
Vries, Gerhard de 46, 102

Wadding, Luke 54, 80, 236, 238, 241
Walaeus, Antonius 237
Wallis, John 31, 40, 41, 44, 45, 47, 126, 137, 168, 182, 233
Ward, Seth 28, 45, 66, 129, 241
Warner, Walter 120, 167–8, 234, 238
Waterhouse, Edward 23, 140
Webster, John 28, 34, 38, 42, 66, 77, 85, 102
Weigel, Erhard 134
Wesley, John 215
Whichcote, Benjamin 44, 47, 139, 140, 141, 144, 151, 153, 155, 212, 230, 231, 240, 241
Whiston, William 30, 213, 229
Whitby, Daniel 39, 241
White, Thomas (alias Blacklo) 41, 52, 62, 72, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 91, 120–1, 164, 231, 234, 239, 242
Wilkins, John 25, 41, 45, 59, 77, 140, 146, 151, 158, 162, 170, 174, 176, 192–3, 194–5, 229, 233, 241, 242
William III, King (William of Orange) 7, 48, 151, 187, 188, 189, 198, 231, 240
William of Ockham 18, 35, 75, 143
Willis, Francis 41
Willis, Thomas 28, 132, 172, 180, 199
Willughby, Francis 41, 238
Wise, Thomas 151
Wishart, John 43
Wishart, William 212
Wittich, Christoph 43
Wollaston, William 213
Worthington, John 47, 140, 238
Wood, Anthony 45, 47, 49
Wotton, Anthony 88
Wotton, Sir Henry 94, 197
Wotton, William 12, 15, 16, 18, 34, 38, 88, 162
Wynne, John 37, 43, 46, 47

Zabarella, Jacopo 37, 40, 45, 73, 76, 78
Zwinger, Theodor 88