fifth and sixth centuries, 366 -375
Filmer, Sir Robert, English political writer (d. 1653), 617 -623, 629 ;
quoted, 618 , 619
final cause, 67
Firdousi, Persian epic poet (fl. ca. 941), 423
fire 28 , 62 , 68 , 71 , 72 , 144 147, 206 , 207 , 254 , 255 , 257 ; as
element, 27 , 43 , 55 ; and Heraclitus, 41 -44, 46 , 253 ; and Pythagoras,
213 , 214 ; scientific conception of, 47
First Cause, 168 , 455 , 586 , 587
First Mover, 549 *
First Letter on Toleration ( Locke), 604
First World War, 789 , 820
fittest, 54 , 725 , 726 , 780
Five Stages of Greek Religion ( Murray), 11 , 227 , 231 *†, 241 ‡
Flanders, 479 , 480
Fleet Street, 678
flesh and spirit, 302 , 303
Flood, 465
Florence, 482 , 496 , 497 498, 504 , 505 , 769
Florentine Academy, 501
flux, 41 , 43 , 44 -47, 151 -152, 153 , 158 , 786 , 801
force, 216 , 217 , 535 , 539 ; centrifugal, 54 ; Locke on use of, 638
Ford cars, 636
form(s), 136 , 467 ; end Aristotle, 162 , 165 -167, 170 , 171 , 205 , 293 ,
458 ; in Platonic theory of ideas, 121 -122
fortune, 224 , 227
Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon, French physicist ( 1819-1868), 540
Foulques, Guy de, papal legate in England (fl. ca. 1258), 463
Fountains Abbey, 411