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406 Index

ics, 88, 99, 105, 160; on subalternate /

subordinate sciences, 96, 97, 151–53,

154, 155, 157; theology of, 53, 55, 65,

72, 98, 104

arithmetic, 150, 151, 162, 187, 189. See also

mathematics

Arnold, Matthew, 263

ar- Ra ̄zı ̄, Abu Bakr, 63, 66

as- Suhrawardı ̄, Shiha ̄b, 69

astrology, 288, 290, 298; and astronomy, 5,

11, 20, 46, 91, 91, 105, 288; Babylonian,

11, 12, 20; Greek, 43, 46; medieval, 92,

105; as pseudoscience, 282, 286, 290,

298, 299, 300

astronomical diaries, 18–19, 20, 23

astronomy, 364–65, 366; Babylonian, 9, 11,

12, 20, 32, 33, 41, 178; Copernican,

191; Greek, 12, 22, 33, 41, 44–45, 46,

66; mathematical, 21, 30, 31, 44, 150,

151, 153; medieval, 84, 86, 87, 89, 92,

93, 96, 97, 102, 105, 106, 203

atheism, 258, 291, 359, 393

atomism, 43, 52–53, 55. See also corpuscu-

larism

Attenborough, David, 142

Auber, T. C. E. Edouard, 206

Augustine of Hippo, 85, 86, 87, 89

Austen, Ralph, 129

Averroës, 60, 62, 71–72, 77, 93

Avicenna, 60, 62, 63, 68–70, 72, 75, 77, 123,

203

Babbage, Charles, 341

Babylonia, 9, 11

Bache, Alexander Dallas, 286, 287, 288, 347

Bacon, Francis, 149, 317; on classifi cation of

the sciences, 132, 133; on experiment,

125; inductive method of, 99, 124, 125,

139, 205–6, 229, 266, 311–13, 316–17,

319, 320, 328, 389; on mixed math-

ematics 149, 151, 155, 158; on natural

history, 123, 124, 125, 126, 132–33,

134, 138, 139–40, 143; on natural

philosophy, 133, 158, 166; theology of,

125, 127, 132

Bacon, Raymond, 237

Bacon, Roger, 94, 97, 99

Baconianism, 162, 205, 265, 311–14, 315,

316, 318, 319, 328; and Darwin, 139,

140, 266, 316, 317; and the Royal Soci-

ety, 127, 133, 134

Bakhmeteff, Boris, 241–42

Balfour, Arthur, 350

Banks, Joseph, 391

Barbaro, Ermolao, 121

Barbour, Ian, 269

Barrow, Isaac, 156

Barrow, John, 386

Barth, Karl, 267

Bartholomeus Anglicus, 120

Beach, Wooster, 213

Beard, Charles, 237

Beaumont, William, 209

Becker, Lydia, 358

Bede, the Venerable, 120

Beeckman, Isaac, 155–56

behaviorism, 325

Behe, Michael, 328

Benga, Ota, 389–90

Berlitz, Charles, 297

Bernard, Claude, 201, 210, 215

Berossus, 11

Bézout, Etienne, 187, 188

Biancani, Giuseppe, 152

Bianchini, Francesco, 195–96

Bible, 254, 256, 257, 307, 366; and creation-

ism, 270, 271, 282; interpretation of,

86, 89, 93, 121, 129, 134, 267, 269, 395;

and natural history, 120, 121, 126, 127,

129, 135, 255; Newton and, 394–96;

as a source of scientifi c knowledge, 94,

135, 136, 137, 258, 265, 269

Bichat, Xavier, 206

Bigelow, Henry J., 210

Bigelow, Jacob, 227

bioethics, 253

biology, 47–48, 66, 117, 176, 238, 240, 343,

347–49, 352; experimental, 141; expla-

nations in, 48, 141; relation to natural

history, 141, 347–48, 352, 367; origin

of the term, 148n, 120, 348. See also

botany; natural history; zoology

Biot, Jean Baptiste, 175, 178, 188

Bishop, Louis Faugères, 214

Bixby, James Thompson, 256, 258

Black, Joseph, 190

Blake, William, 313

Blund, John, 93

Boas, Franz, 293

Bock, Hieronymous, 122

Boëthius, 83, 85, 86–88, 89, 150

Bohr, Niels, 166

Bonaventure, Saint, 95

Bonnet, Charles, 138

Bonpland, Aimé, 385

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