408 Index
cuneiform tablets, 10, 11, 12–13
Cupitt, Don, 273
Cuvier, Georges, 386Daniels, George, 313, 314
Dante Alighieri, 91, 95
Darwin, Charles, 288, 319, 384, 392; and
Christianity, 255; on laws of nature,
139, 361; and natural history, 139–40,
142; and naturalism, 359, 364; Origin
of Species, 139, 140, 282, 346, 392; and
pseudoscience, 291, 316–17; and scien-
tifi c method, 320, 324
Darwin, Erasmus, 190
Darwinism. See evolution
Daum, Andreas, 368
Davey, James Ernest, 394
Davies, Paul, 273
Davis, Jean, 325
Davis, Nathan Smith, 208, 212, 215
Davy, Humphry, 190, 341–42, 362
Dawes, Chester, 235
Dawkins, Richard, 271, 330
Dee, John, 384
Deluc, Jean- André, 178, 183, 192, 194, 196
Dembski, William, 328
Dening, Greg, 315
Dennett, Daniel, 271
Derbyshire, John, 299
Desaguliers, Jean, 162, 164, 186
Descartes, René, 135, 155, 156, 161
Derham, William, 130, 137
design, 50, 53, 352
determinism, 26
Dewey, John, 292, 323
Diderot, Denis, 175
Diodorus Siculus, 11
Dioscorides, 120
Discovery Institute, 253
disease, 201, 202, 208, 212
disputation, medieval, 101
divination, celestial, 10, 12, 14–19, 20, 22,
24, 26, 30, 33
Dixon, Jeane, 297
Double, François, 206
Draper, John William, 257–58
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, 293,
294
Dunn, Gano, 230, 234, 235Eamon, William, 29
eclectic medical sect, 212, 213
ecology, 142Eddington, Arthur Stanley, 324
Eddy, Harrison, 235
Eddy, Mary Baker, 213, 287
Eden. See under garden
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, 190
education, 329, 342, 346; engineering,
240–41, 242, 243, 245–46, 247; and
scientifi c method, 323–24, 326–27;
Ehret, Arnold, 323
Einstein, Albert, 166, 322, 325
electricity, 177, 179, 186
elements, the four, 42, 54, 65, 66, 67–69,
70, 71, 75
emblems, medieval, 125–26, 129
Empedocles, 41
empiricism, 21, 30, 55, 103, 201, 206, 256,
264, 339, 388
engineering, 187, 226, 228–30, 231–36, 238,
239, 240–46, 247, 364; as art, 234–35;
and mathematics, 187–88, 243; and
physics, 228, 232, 235, 239, 241, 243,
245; relation to pure science, 225,
226–36, 240
Epicureanism, 43–44, 52–53, 55, 56; moral
teachings, 44, 55
Epicurus, 44
Euclid, 87, 89, 95, 97
Eudoxus, 66
Evans, Donald D., 268
Everitt, William Littell, 245
evolution, 320, 342, 349, 355, 361, 362, 367,
392; and creationism / intelligent design,
270, 298, 329, 395; and natural history,
138, 389–90; and naturalism, 288, 345,
350; as pseudoscience, 291, 316–17,
351, 359; and socialism, 364–6. See also
natural selection; science: and religion
exhibition, scientifi c, 388–91
exorcists, 32
experimental history, 125, 133
experimental philosophy, 166, 176, 190,
341–42, 354; and mathematics, 158,
162, 164, 165, 167, 178, 181, 183;
and natural history, 192; and natural
philosophy, 177, 178, 192; Newton
and, 157, 158, 160, 161, 176, 254; Royal
Society and, 157, 158; and speculative
philosophy, 157
experimental medicine, 207, 213, 215
experimentation, 348, 352, 353–54, 367;
ancient, 49; early modern, 125, 156,
157, 162, 176; and mathematics, 175;
and medicine, 205, 215; medieval, 102,