observation, 34 , 35 , 39 , 69 , 528 , 663 , 672
Occam (or Ockham), William of, English scholastic philosopher ( 1300?-
1350?), 451 , 463 , 468 , 469 , 470 -475, 481 , 525 ; quoted, 469 , 472 ,
474
Occamists, 513
Occam's razor, 472
Ockham, 468
Octavius. See Augustus
Ode on a Grecian Urn ( Keats), 249
Odo, Saint, French monk, abbot of Cluny ( 879?942?), 411 , 412
Odovaker, King of the
Ostrogoths (d. 493), 367
Odyssey ( Homer), 10
Oenopides of Chios, Greek astronomer (fl. 5th cent. B.C.), 214
Oesterley and Robinson, cited, 315 , 331
Oinomaos, 12
Old Believers, 384
Old Man of the Mountain, 423
Old Testament, 353 , 331 , 364 , 570 , 585 , 764 ; and Christianity, 313 ,
327 , 342 , 363 , 429 , 447 , 478 ; and Jewish history, 309 312; translations
of, 321 322, 340 , 361
oligarchy, desired by Plato, 106
Olympian attitude, 19
Olympian gods, 10 , 11 -12, 14 , 21 , 24 , 28 , 32 , 239 , 249 , 343 *
Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great, 219
Olympic Games, 33 , 193 194
Omax Khayyám, Persian poet and astronomer (d. ca. 1123), 423
"On Civil Dominions" ( Wycliffe), 485
On Divine Omnipotence (St. Peter Damian), 413
On Divine Predestination ( John the Scot), 403
On the Division of Nature ( John the Scot), 404 -407