Index

abacus,  here

absolute monarchy 

Hobbes and,  here, here

Locke’s refutation of,  here

Louis XIV and,  here, here

Abulafia, Abraham,  here

Abumasar,  here

Accademia della Crusca,  here

Academia Naturae Curiosorum (‘Leopoldina’),  here

Academia Parisiensis (Académie Parisienne),  here

Academia Secretorum Naturae,  here

Académie des Sciences,  here

Académie Française,  here, here, here

Accademia dei Lincei,  here, here, here

Accademia del Cimento,  here

Adam, Charles,  here, here

Adams, Douglas,  here

Addison, Joseph,  here

Aelius Lampridius,  here

Aelius Spartianus,  here

Aglaophamos,  here

agricultural reform,  here, here

Alacoque, Marie,  here

Albert of Austria, Archduke,  here

Albertus Magnus,  here

alchemy,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Algonquin Indians,  here, here

Allen, John,  here

Alphonso ‘the Wise’, King of Castile,  here

Alva, Duke of,  here

Amalie-Elisabeth of Hesse-Cassel,  here

Amenhotep son of Hapu,  here

American colonies,  here, here, here, here

American Revolution,  here, here, here, here, here

Anaximander,  here

Anaximenes,  here

Andreae, Johann Valentin,  here, here, here

Anglo-Dutch Wars,  here, here, here, here

Anne, Queen,  here, here

Anne of Austria,  here, here

Antigua,  here

Antwerp Cathedral, iconoclasm in,  here

Apollonius,  here

apologetical literature,  here

Aquinas, Thomas,  here, here

Arabic numerals, adoption of,  here

Arawaks,  here

‘Archdukes, the’,  here

Archimedes,  here

Archytas,  here

Aristarchus,  here

Aristophanes,  here, here

Aristotle (Aristotelianism),  here, here, here, here

rejection of,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

and religious world-view,  here, here

and theory of four elements,  here

armies, growth in size of,  here

Arminians,  here, here

Arminius, Jacob,  here

Armistice of Kotzschenbrode,  here

Arnim, Hans-Georg von,  here, here, here

astrology,  here, here, here, here, here, here

Dee and,  here, here, here

and personality and fate,  here

Rosicrucianism and,  here, here

astronomy,  here, here, here, here, here, here

Rosicrucianism and,  here, here

atmospheric pressure,  here, here

atomism,  here, here

Augsburg Interim,  here

Augsburg principle (cuius regio, eius religio),  here, here

Aulic Court,  here

Ausonius,  here

Auzout, Adrien,  here

Avaux, Claude, comte d’,  here

Avenzoar of Babylon,  here

Avicenna,  here

Babylonians,  here

Bacon, Francis,  here, here, here, here

his death,  here

and empiricism,  here

expulsion from public life,  here

and founding of Royal Society,  here, here, here

and Rosicrucianism,  here, here

and scientific method,  here, here, here, here

separation of religion and science,  here

Bacon, Sir Nicholas,  here

Bacon, Roger,  here, here

Baghdad,  here

Bahamas,  here

Baillet, Pierre,  here, here

Bamberg witch trials,  here

Banér, Johan,  here

bar Yochai, Shimon,  here

Barbados,  here

Barberini ivory,  here

Baronio, Cesare,  here

Basilica of Maxentius,  here, here

Batavia (Jayakarta),  here

Bayle, Pierre,  here, here

bayonet, French army adopts,  here

Becket, Thomas,  here

bee-keeping,  here

Bellarmino, Cardinal,  here, here, here, here, here

Bergen-op-Zoom, siege of,  here

Bergerac, Cyrano de,  here

Bergius, Johannes,  here

Berkeley, George,  here, here

Berlin, Isaiah,  here

Bermuda,  here

Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo,  here

Bérulle, Cardinal,  here

biblical interpretation, Newton and,  here, here

Bill of Rights,  here

Bitauld, Jean,  here

Blake, Admiral Robert,  here, here

Blaxton, William,  here

blood, circulation of,  here, here

Bodin, Jean,  here

Bogislav XIV of Pomerania, Duke,  here

Bohemian revolt,  here, here, here

Bohr, Nils,  here

Boileau, Nicolas,  here

Bonner, Edmund,  here

Book of Genesis,  here, here, here, here

Book of Joshua,  here, here, here, here

Book of Proverbs,  here

Book of Revelation,  here

Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne,  here, here

Boston, Massachusetts,  here

opening of Latin School,  here

Boulliau, Ismaël,  here

Boyle, Robert,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Boyle’s Law,  here

Brahe, Tycho,  here

Brandeis, Battle of,  here

Breda, siege of,  here

Breisach, siege of,  here

Breitenfeld, First Battle of,  here

Breitenfeld, Second Battle of,  here

Bridge of Dessau, Battle of the,  here

‘Britannia’ (the name),  here

Brno, siege of,  here

Browne, Sir Thomas,  here

Bruno, Giordano,  here, here, here, here, here

Bucquoy, comte de,  here

Bunyan, John,  here

Burghley, William Cecil, Lord,  here

Burnet, Gilbert,  here

cabalism,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Dee and,  here, here

Fludd and,  here

Jewish Cabala,  here, here

Rosicrucianism and,  here, here

Calais, loss of,  here

calculating machine, Pascal’s,  here

Calendar of Filocalus,  here

Calvin, Jean,  here

Calvinists,  here, here, here, here, here

and iconoclasm,  here

and predestination dispute,  here

of the United Provinces,  here

and Westphalian peace process,  here, here

Cambridge University,  here

Campanella, Tommasso,  here

Canaletto,  here

cannon balls, movement of,  here

Cardano, Girolamo,  here

Casaubon, Isaac,  here

Cassiopeia constellation,  here

Castelli, Benedetto,  here

Catherine the Great, Empress,  here

Catholic League,  here, here, here, here, here, here

Celsus,  here

Cervantes, Miguel de,  here

Cesi, Federico,  here

Chaldeans,  here

Charles V, Emperor,  here

Charles I, King,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

and Anglo-Dutch Wars,  here, here

execution of,  here, here, here, here

secret treaty with Spain,  here

Charles II, King,  here, here, here, here

Chemnitz, Battle of,  here

Chesterton, G. K.,  here

China,  here, here, here, here, here

Christian IV, King of Denmark,  here, here

Christian of Anhalt,  here, here, here, here, here

Christian of Brunswick,  here

Christina, Queen of Sweden,  here, here, here, here

Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess,  here

cicadas, emergence of,  here

Cicero,  here, here

Clark, G. N.,  here

Claves, Etienne de,  here

Clement VII, Pope,  here

Clerselier, Claude,  here, here

coal production, rise in,  here

Codex Luxemburgensis,  here

Coke, Sir Edward,  here

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste,  here, here

Columbus, Christopher,  here

colunellahere

Comenius,  here

comets,  here

condottierihere

Copernicus, Nicolaus,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Córdoba, Gonzalo, de,  here

Corneille, Pierre,  here, here

Cornelius Agrippa,  here, here, here

Corot space satellite,  here

Council of Trent,  here, here

Counter-Reformation,  here, here, here

Crabtree, William,  here, here, here

Crollius, Oswald,  here

Cromwell, Oliver,  here, here

cryptography,  here, here

Cuba,  here

Cudworth, Ralph,  here

cuius regio, eius religio principle,  see Augsburg principle

curb-bit, invention of,  here

Curie, Marie,  here

cycloid,  here

d’Alembert, Jean le Rond,  here, here

‘Dark Ages’,  here, here

Darwin, Charles,  here, here, here, here, here

de Ruyter, Admiral Michiel,  here

De Witt, Johan,  here

Declaration of the Rights of Man,  here

Dee, Jane,  here, here

Dee, Dr John,  here, here, here, here, here

and Rosicrucianism,  here, here, here

Defenestration of Prague,  here, here, here

‘degree’, theory of,  here

Delft,  here

della Porta, Giambattista,  here

Democritus,  here

Denmark, and Thirty Years War,  here, here, here

Desargues, Girard,  here

Descartes, René,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

advised to leave France,  here

and cogito ergo sumhere

his dreams,  here

and Elisabeth of Bohemia,  here

and Jesuits,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

meets Pascal,  here

Mersenne and,  here, here, here, here, here

and mind-body problem,  here, here

and moving statues,  here, here

Paris visit,  here

and Rosicrucianism,  here

and scientific method,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

separation of religion and science,  here

his system of physics,  here, here, here

Diderot, Denis,  here, here

Diet of Regensburg,  here, here, here

Digby, Kenelm,  here

Digges, Thomas,  here

Dirac, Paul,  here

Dominica,  here

Donauwörth,  here, here

Doni, Giovanni,  here

Donne, John,  here, here

Dryden, John,  here

Dunkirk, sale of,  here

Duns Scotus,  here

Dupuy, Jacques and Pierre,  here

Dury, John,  here

Dutch East India Company,  here

Dutch Golden Age,  here, here, here, here, here

Dutch Republic,  see United Provinces

earthquakes,  here

East India Company,  here

East Indies,  here, here, here, here

‘Ecclesiastical Reservation’,  here

eclipses,  here, here, here

Edict of Nantes, revocation of,  here

Edict of Restitution,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Edict of Thessalonica,  here

educational reform,  here

Edward VI, King,  here

Ehrenberg, Philipp Adolf von, Prince-Bishop of Würzburg,  here

Einstein, Albert,  here, here

elements, theory of four,  here, here

Elijah, prophet,  here

Eliot, George,  here

Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess,  here, here

Elizabeth I, Queen,  here, here, here, here, here

and Duke Frederick of Württemberg,  here, here

Elizabeth of Bohemia,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Encyclopédiehere, here

English Civil War,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Agreement of the Peoplehere

and beginnings of democracy,  here, here, here, here

casualty figures,  here

and size of army,  here

Enlightenment,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

ephemerides,  here

Epicureanism,  here

Epicurus,  here, here

Erasmus,  here, here, here

Erlach, Johann Ludwig von,  here

Essex, Earl of,  here

Euclid,  here, here, here, here

Evangelical Union (Protestant Union),  here, here, here, here, here

Evelyn, John,  here

‘exploding head syndrome’,  here, here

Fabricius, Hieronymus,  here

‘faith’, meaning of,  here

Faraday, Michael,  here

Faulhaber, Johann,  here

Ferdinand, Cardinal-Infante of Spain,  here, here

Ferdinand I, Emperor,  here

Ferdinand II, Emperor,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

dedicatee of Palma Triumphalishere

Ferdinand III, Emperor (Archduke Ferdinand),  here, here, here, here, here, here

Fermat, Pierre de,  here

feudalism, decline of,  here

Ficino, Marsilio,  here, here, here

Filmer, Sir Robert,  here, here

Fire of London,  here

First World War,  here

Fletcher, John, and Philip Massinger,  here

Fleurus, siege of,  here

Florence,  here, here

Brunelleschi’s Duomo,  here, here

Florentinus de Valentia,  here

Florio, John,  here

Fludd, Robert,  here, here, here, here

Fontanier, Jean,  here

Fontnelle, Bernard le Bovier de,  here, here, here, here

Foscarini, Paolo Antonio,  here, here, here, here, here

Four Days Battle,  here

Foxe’s Book of Martyrshere

France 

and absolute monarchy,  here

and decline of Spain,  here, here

Fronde rebellion,  here, here, here, here, here

postal system,  here

return of Jesuits,  here

return of Jews,  here

and Rosicrucian panic,  here, here, here

size of army,  here

and Thirty Years War,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

at war with Dutch,  here

at war with Spain,  here, here, here

Francis, Pope,  here

Frankenthal, siege of,  here

Frankfurt Deputationstag,  here, here

Frederick I of Württemberg, Duke,  here, here

Frederick V, Elector of the Palatinate,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

and occultism,  here, here, here

Frederick II the Great, King of Prussia,  here

French language,  here, here

French Revolution,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Friedrich-Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg,  here, here

Frisius, Gemma,  here

Gabbard, Battle of the,  here

Gábor, Bethlen,  here, here

Galen,  here, here, here, here

Galileo,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

and Accademia dei Lincei,  here, here, here

Mersenne and,  here

Milton visits,  here, here

trial and recantation,  here, here, here, here

Gallas, General,  here

Garasse, François,  here

Garber, Daniel,  here

Gassendi, Pierre,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Gaukroger, Stephen,  here

‘genetic fallacy’,  here

Geneva Observatory,  here

Georg, Margrave of Baden-Durlach,  here, here

Georgius Agricola,  here

Georg-Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg,  here, here, here, here, here, here

Giorgi, Francesco,  here

‘Glorious Revolution’,  here, here, here, here, here, here

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,  here

Gomarists,  here, here

Gomarus, Francis,  here

Gomes, Estêvão,  here

Gospel of John,  here

Götz, Count,  here

Grafton, Anthony,  here

Greek city states,  here

Greek mythology,  here

Gregory XIII, Pope,  here

Gregory XV, Pope,  here

Grossenbrode, Battle of,  here

Grotius, Hugo,  here, here, here

Guadeloupe,  here

Guevara y Taxis, Don Iñigo Vélez Ladrón de,  here

Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Gwynn, Nell,  here

Haak, Theodore,  here

Hagia Sophia,  here, here

Hahn, Otto,  here

Haiti,  here

Hájek, Tadeáš,  here

hand-grenades,  here

Harkness, Deborah,  here

Harrington, James,  here

Hartlib, Samuel,  here, here, here, here

Harvey, William,  here, here, here, here

Hays, J. N.,  here

Hebrew alphabet,  here, here

Heidelberg, library of,  here

Heisenberg, Werner,  here

Henri IV, King of France,  here, here, here, here

Henry I, King,  here

Henry II, King,  here

Henry VIII, King,  here, here, here

Hermeticism,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

and prisca theologiahere, here

and Rosicrucianism,  here, here

Herodotus,  here, here

herring catches,  here, here

Hill, Christopher,  here

Hipparchus,  here

Hippocrates,  here

Hippolithus à Lapide,  here

Hispaniola,  here

Hobbes, Thomas,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

and absolute monarchy,  here, here

meets Descartes,  here

Hochfeld, Battle of,  here

Holbein, Hans,  here

Holy Roman Empire 

abolition of,  here, here

Christian of Anhalt and,  here

legal institutions,  here

and mercenary armies,  here

postal services,  here

and Rosicrucian panic,  here

and state of war,  here

‘Homeric laughter’,  here

Hooft, Pieter,  here

Hooke, Robert,  here

Horace,  here

Horn, Gustav,  here

Horne, Janet,  here

Horrocks, Jeremiah,  here, here, here

Hradisch, subjection of,  here

Hudson, Henry,  here

Huet, Pierre Daniel,  here, here

Hughes, Ted,  here

Huguenots,  here

Hume, David,  here, here

humours, theory of,  here

Hungarian revolt,  here

Huygens, Christiaan,  here, here, here

Huygens, Constantijn,  here, here, here, here, here, here

Iamblichus,  here

Imhotep,  here

Imperial Free Cities,  here

Index of Forbidden Bookshere, here, here, here

India,  here

industrial development,  here

Inquisition,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

‘intelligencer’ (the term),  here

Inverkeithing, Battle of,  here

inverse square law,  here

Isabella and Ferdinand, joint monarchs,  here

Islam,  here, here, here, here

isotopes, extraterrestrial,  here

Istanbul, population of,  here

Italian language,  here

Iulius Capitolinus,  here

Jamaica,  here, here

James I, King,  here, here, here, here, here

his daughter’s wedding,  here, here

and Francis Bacon,  here

James II, King (Duke of York),  here, here

deposition of,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Jankau, Battle of,  here

Janssen, Hans and Zacharias,  here, here

Jayakarta (Batavia),  here

Jesuits,  here, here, here, here

and Aristotelian teaching,  here

Descartes and,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

and Galileo,  here

and Rosicrucian panic,  here, here, here, here, here, here

and witch trials,  here

see also La Flèche Jesuit college

Jews,  here, here, here, here, here, here

and Cabala,  here, here

Johann-Georg, Elector of Saxony,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Jonson, Ben,  here, here

Jupiter,  here, here, here, here

moons of,  here

Jurieu, Pierre,  here

Justinian, Emperor,  here

Kant, Immanuel,  here

Karl-Ludwig of the Palatinate, Prince,  here, here, here

Kelley, Edward,  here, here, here

Kepler, Johannes,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Kepler space telescope,  here

Kepler’s third law,  here

Keynes, John Maynard,  here

Khunrath, Henricus,  here

Kierkegaard, Søren,  here

kingship, sacred nature (‘divine right’) of,  here, here, here, here, here

Locke’s rejection of,  here, here, here see also absolute monarchy

Kurtz, Jakob,  here

La Flèche Jesuit college,  here, here, here, here

La Hogue, Battle of,  here

Lamormaini, Wilhelm,  here, here, here, here, here

Langenfeld, Friedrich Spee von,  here

Łaski, Count Albert,  here

‘Late Heavy Bombardment’,  here

League of Heilbronn,  here, here

Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van,  here

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,  here, here

Leipzig, sieges of,  here, here, here

Leipzig Colloquy,  here, here

Leipziger Bund,  here

León, Moses de,  here

Leonardo of Pistoia,  here

Leonicini, Nicolai,  here

Leopold-Wilhelm, Archduke,  here, here, here, here

Lepane tribe,  here

Lepanto, Battle of,  here

Lessing, Gotthold,  here

letter writing,  here, here

see also postal services

Lewis, C. S.,  here

Libavius, Andreas,  here, here

libertinage,  here

light, wave theory of,  here

literacy, spread of,  here, here

literary style,  here

Locke, John,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Long Parliament,  here, here

longitude, measurement of,  here

Louis XI, King of France,  here

Louis XIII, King of France,  here, here

Louis XIV, King of France,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

and absolute monarchy,  here, here

Lowell, Robert,  here

Lowestoft, Battle of,  here

Lucretius,  here

Lull, Ramón,  here, here

Luther, Martin,  here, here

Lutherans,  here, here, here, here, here, here

Lutter-am-Bamberg, Battle of,  here

Lützen, Battle of,  here

al-Madjriti,  here

Madras (Chennai), founding of,  here

Magdeburg, sack of,  here, here, here, here, here

Malherbe, François de,  here

Manhattan Island,  here

Mansfeldt, Ernst Graf von,  here, here

Mao Zedong,  here

Maria Anna, Archduchess,  here

Maria-Eleonora of Brandenburg,  here

Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of,  here

Marlowe, Christopher,  here, here, here

Mars,  here, here, here

Martinique,  here

Mary I, Queen,  here, here

Mary II, Queen,  here, here, here

Masham, Damaris, Lady,  here

Masham, Sir Francis,  here

Masham, Sir William,  here

Massachusetts, settlement of,  here

Matthias, Emperor,  here

Maurice of Nassau, Prince,  here, here, here

Maximilian I, Emperor,  here, here

Maximilian I of Bavaria, Duke,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Maxwell, James Clerk,  here, here

Mazarin, Cardinal,  here, here, here, here

Medici, Cosimo de’,  here, here

Medici, Cosimo II de’,  here, here, here

Medici, Marie de’,  here

Medway Raid,  here

Meier, Michael,  here

Mercator, Gerard,  here, here

Mercury,  here, here, here, here

Mercy, Franz von,  here

Mergentheim, Battle of,  here

Mersenne, Marin,  here, here, here, here, here, here

and Descartes,  here, here, here, here, here

opposition to Fludd,  here, here, here

and Rosicrucian movement,  here, here, here, here

and scientific method,  here, here

Mersenne’s Laws,  here

Metrodorus,  here

Mexico,  here, here

microscopes,  here, here, here

‘Middle Ages’,  here

Mill, John Stuart,  here

Milton, John,  here, here, here, here, here, here

Minim monks,  here

Molière,  here, here

Molinos, Miguel de,  here

monasteries, dissolution of,  here, here

Monk, General George,  here

Montaigne, Michel de,  here

Montmor, Henri Louis Habert de,  here

Montserrat,  here

Moors,  here

Moray, Sir Robert,  here

Morgan, Henry,  here

Moses,  here, here

Muiderkringhere

Mustafa II, Sultan,  here

Napoleon Bonaparte,  here, here, here

Napoleonic Wars,  here, here

Naudé, Gabriel,  here

naval warfare,  here

Navigation Act,  here

Neckar, River,  here

Neoplatonism,  here, here, here

Nevers, duc de,  here

Nevis,  here

New Amsterdam,  here, here

New College, Durham,  here

New York,  here, here, here

Newton, Isaac,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

and biblical interpretation,  here, here

challenge to Descartes’ physics,  here

and occultism,  here, here, here, here, here

and scientific method,  here, here

Nördlingen, Battle of,  here

Nördlingen, siege of,  here

Northumberland, Duke of,  here

numerology,  here, here, here

Nuremberg, siege of,  here

Nuremberg Kurfurstentaghere

Oath of Abjuration,  here

occultism 

Bacon’s rejection of,  here

and Protestantism,  here, here

and science,  here, here, here see also cabalism; Hermeticism; Rosicrucianism

ochlocracy, and democracy,  here

O’Hara, Glen,  here

Oldenbarnevelt, Johan van,  here

Oldenburg, Henry,  here

opium,  here

Order of the Garter,  here

Order of the Golden Fleece,  here

Origen,  here

Orion nebula,  here

‘orthodoxy’, meaning of,  here

Osiander, Andreas,  here

Ottoman Empire,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

defeated at Lepanto,  here

and sieges of Vienna,  here, here

Oxenstierna, Axel,  here, here, here, here

Paley, William,  here

pantograph, invention of,  here

Pappenheim, Gottfried Graf zu,  here, here

Paracelsus,  here, here, here, here

Paris parlementhere, here, here

Pascal, Blaise,  here, here, here

his calculating machine,  here

meets Descartes,  here

‘Pascal’s wager’,  here, here

Pascal, Jacqueline,  here

Paul V, Pope,  here

Pax Britannicahere

Peace of Augsburg,  here

Peace of Passau,  here

Peace of Prague,  here, here, here

Peace of Regensburg,  here

Peace of Westphalia,  here

peer review, Oldenburg and,  here

Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude de,  here, here

Pell, John,  here

Pepys, Samuel,  here, here, here

Périer, Florin,  here

Peru,  here

Petit, Léon,  here

Petit, Pierre,  here

Petrarch,  here

Petty, William,  here

Phidias,  here

Philip I, King of Castile,  here

Philip II, King of Spain,  here, here

Philip III, King of Spain,  here, here

Philip IV, King of Spain,  here

Philip V, King of Spain,  here

Philip Ludwig of Neuberg,  here

Philolaus,  here

Picatrixhere

Piccolomini, Octavio,  here, here, here, here

Pickering, Sir William,  here

Pico della Mirandola,  here, here, here

Pietism,  here, here

Pinochet, General Augusto,  here

pirates,  here, here, here

plague,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

survivors and church-building,  here

Planck, Max,  here

planets (and planetary motion),  here, here, here, here, here, here

and epicycles,  here

exoplanets,  here, here

the word ‘planet’,  here

Plato,  here, here, here, here, here, here

Platonism,  here

Pliny,  here, here, here

Leonicini and,  here

Plotinus,  here

Plutarch,  here

Plymouth Colony,  here

Pol Pot,  here

Poliziano, Angelo,  here

Pollot, Alphonse de,  here

Pope, Alexander,  here

population growth,  here, here, here

Porphyry,  here, here

Portland, Battle of (Three Days Battle),  here

Portugal 

decline of,  here

independence from Spain,  here, here

postal services,  here, here, here

Postel, Guillaume,  here

Powhatan Wars,  here

predestination, dispute over,  here

‘Preliminaries of Pirna’,  here

Priestley, Joseph,  here

prime numbers,  here

privateers,  here

Protestant Union,  see Evangelical Union

Providence, Rhode Island,  here

Psalm  here, here, here, here, here

pseudo-Albertus Magnus,  here

Ptolemy,  here, here, here, here, here

pulsars,  here

Puy de Dôme volcano,  here, here

Pythagoras,  here, here

Pythagoreans,  here, here, here

quadrivium,  here

Quietism,  here

Quiroga, Don Diego de,  here

Racine, Jean,  here, here

Rákóczy, Stephen,  here

Reformation 

impact on Cambridge University,  here

and occultism,  here, here

and rise of science,  here

Reformed Church, Confession of Faith,  here

refraction of light,  here

Regiomontanus,  here

Reichskammergericht,  here

Renaissance,  here

and rise of humanism,  here, here

and scientific method,  here

view of history,  here

‘republic of letters’,  here, here, here

‘republican liberty’,  here

Reuchlin, Johann,  here, here

Rheticus,  here

Richelieu, Cardinal,  here, here, here, here, here

River Halys, Battle of the,  here

River Lech, Battle of the,  here

Roberts, Michael,  here

Roberval, Gilles de,  here, here, here

Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of,  here, here

Rodis-Lewis, Geneviève,  here

Rohault, Jacques,  here

Roman Empire 

adopts Christianity,  here

collapse of,  here

Romans,  here, here, here, here

Rosicrucianism,  here, here, here, here, here, here

Rossi, Paolo,  here, here

Royal Library (Paris),  here

Royal Society,  here, here, here, here, here, here

Bacon and,  here, here, here

founding of,  here, here

and literary style,  here

Newton tercentenary,  here, here

Oldenburg and,  here

Rubens, Peter Paul,  here

Rudolf II, Emperor,  here, here, here

and Dee’s visit,  here

Rump Parliament,  here

Russell, Bertrand,  here, here

Rutherford, Ernest,  here

Sablé, Abel Servien, marquis de,  here

St Augustine,  here, here

St Francis Borgia,  here

St Francis of Assisi,  here

St Francis of Paola,  here

St Kitts,  here

St Paul,  here, here

St Teresa of Avila,  here

Salem, Massachusetts,  here, here

San Salvador,  here

Santa Maria della Salute,  here

Sartre, Jean-Paul,  here

Saturn,  here, here, here

Saul, Barnabas,  here

Scheiner, Christoph,  here

Scheveningen, Battle of,  here

Schiller, Friedrich,  here, here

Schmalkaldic League,  here

Schönberg, Nicholas von,  here

Schweidnitz, Battle of,  here

Schweighardt, Theophilus,  here

Science, Chapter  17, passim

increasing remoteness of,  here

and occultism,  here, here, here

and rejection of religious world-view,  here

scientific method,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

scientific revolution,  here

separation from religion,  here

scientific academies, founding of,  here

scientific instruments,  here, here, here

Second World War,  here, here, here

Seneca,  here

Shaftesbury, Lord,  here

Shakespeare, William,  here, here, here, here, here

Macbethhere, here, here, here

The Merry Wives of Windsorhere

The Tempesthere, here, here

shipbuilding,  here

shipping, Dutch,  here

Sigismund, King of Poland,  here

Silhon, Jean de,  here

silicosis,  here

Skinner, Quentin,  here

slavery, abolition of,  here

slaves, African,  here, here, here

social welfare, Samuel Hartlib and,  here

Solomon’s Temple,  here

Sophie of Bohemia, Princess,  here

Sorbière, Samuel,  here

Spain 

alliance with Dutch,  here

decline of,  here, here, here

and loss of United Provinces,  here

persecution and expulsion of Jews,  here, here, here

and Portuguese independence,  here, here

secret treaty with Charles I,  here

signs peace with United Provinces,  here

size of army,  here

and Thirty Years War,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

at war with France,  here, here, here

Spanish Armada,  here, here

Spanish Inquisition,  see Inquisition

Spanish Netherlands,  here, here, here, here, here

Spanish Road,  here, here, here

spice trade,  here

spies and spying,  here

Spinola, Ambrogio,  here

Spinoza, Baruch,  here, here, here

Sprat, Thomas,  here

Stalin, Josef,  here

star charts, Babylonian,  here

Star of Bethlehem,  here

statues, moving,  here, here

Staurophorus, Rudophilus,  here

Steinau, Battle of,  here

Stevin, Simon,  here

Stralsund, siege of,  here

Stuart, Elizabeth,  see Elizabeth of Bohemia

Studion, Simon,  here

sugar plantations,  here

Sumerians,  here

sunspots,  here

supernovae,  here, here

Swabian Circle,  here

Sweden 

ascendancy in artillery,  here

and growth of bureaucracy,  here

and Thirty Years War,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

at war with Denmark,  here, here

at war with Poland,  here, here, here, here

Swift, Jonathan,  here

Sydney, Algernon,  here

Synod of Dort,  here

syphilis,  here

Taxis, Franz von,  here

Taxis network,  here

telescopes,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

tercio system,  here

Terschelling, Sack of,  here

Tertullian,  here, here

Teucer,  here

Thales,  here, here

thaumaturgy,  here

theatres, closing of,  here

Thirty Years War, Part  here, passim

economic and social impact,  here, here

end of Bohemian phase,  here

end of civil war phase,  here

final campaigns,  here

and mercenary generals,  here

Palatinate phase,  here

period of stagnation,  here

religious nature of,  here, here, here, here

and Westphalian peace process,  here, here

Thurn, Count Matthias,  here, here, here

Tilly, Johann Tserclaes, Count of,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here

tobacco plantations,  here

Torquemada, Tomás de,  here

Torricelli, Evangelista,  here, here

Torstensson, Field Marshal Lennart,  here, here, here

toxicology, beginnings of,  here

Trauttmansdorff, Count Maximilian von,  here

Treaty of Bärwalde,  here, here, here

Treaty of Compiègne,  here

Treaty of Fontainebleau,  here

Treaty of Hamburg,  here, here

Treaty of Münster,  here

Treaty of Osnabrück,  here

Treaty of Paris,  here

Treaty of Pilsen,  here

Treaty of Ratisbon,  here, here

Treaty of Ulm,  here

Treaty of Westminster,  here

Treaty of Westphalia,  here, here, here

Treaty of Xanten,  here

tria prima theory,  here

Trithemius, Johannes,  here, here

Tromp, Admiral Martin,  here

Turenne, Henri vicomte de,  here, here, here

Turner, J. M. W.,  here

Tuttlingen, Battle of,  here

‘two-power standard’,  here

Union of Arras,  here

Union of Utrecht,  here

United Provinces of the Netherlands 

development of army,  here

independence from Spain,  here, here, here

and religious dissension,  here

signs peace with Spain,  here

and Thirty Years War,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here see also Anglo-Dutch Wars

universal suffrage,  here

universe 

heliocentric model of,  here, here, here, here, here

religious model of,  here

symbol denoting unity of,  here

University of Leiden,  here, here

Urban VIII, Pope,  here

Utrecht, purge of Arminians,  here

van den Vondel, Joost,  here

van Helmont, Jean Baptiste,  here

van Hooghelande, Cornelius,  here

Vanini, Giulio Cesare,  here, here, here, here

Venice,  here, here, here, here, here

courier service,  here

Venus,  here, here, here

transit of,  here, here

Verrazzano, Giovanni di,  here

Vesalius, Andreas,  here

Viau, Théophile de,  here

Vickers, Brian,  here, here

Vienna,  here, here, here

sieges of,  here, here

Villon, Antoine,  here

vision, Descartes’ theory of,  here

Visscher sisters,  here

Volta, Alessandro,  here

Voltaire,  here, here

waardgeldershere

Wahlbom, Carl,  here

Wallenstein, Duke Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von,  here, here, here, here, here, here

War of Jülich Succession,  here, here

War of Mantuan Succession,  here, here

War of Spanish Succession,  here, here, here

Wassenar, Jacob and Nicolaes,  here

Wedgwood, C. V.,  here

weights and measures,  here, here

Werth, Graf von,  here

West Indies,  here, here

White Mountain, Battle of the,  here, here, here, here, here, here

Widmanstadt, Johann,  here

Wiesloch, Battle of,  here

Wilhelm of Hesse-Cassel,  here

Wilkins, John,  here

William III, King,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

William of Rosenberg,  here

William-Louis, Stadthouder of Friesland,  here

Williams, Roger,  here, here

Wilson, Peter H.,  here

Winthrop, John,  here

‘Winthrop Fleet’,  here

witch trials,  here, here, here

Wittstock, Battle of,  here

Władisław IV, King of Poland,  here

Wolszczan, Aleksander,  here

Worcester, Battle of,  here

Wren, Sir Christopher,  here, here

Würzburg witch trials,  here

Yates, Frances,  here, here, here, here

York, Duke of,  see James II, King

Zapata und Taxis, Prince Vicenz von,  here

Zeno of Eleusis,  here

Zenta, Battle of,  here, here

zodiac, Grand Conjunction of,  here

Zusmarshausen, Battle of,  here