Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

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Index 409

103; and natural philosophy, 176–77;
and scientifi c method, 269; spaces of,
384–86
exploitation of nature, 126


Fall, the, 127–28, 135, 137
falsafa, 59–60, 62, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77
Falun Gong, 298
Faraday, Michael, 159
fatalism, 43
Fenton, Martin Henry, 323
Feyerabend, Paul, 327, 328
fi eld science, 386–88, 391
Finch, James Kip, 241–42
Flexner, Abraham, 214
Flinn, Alfred, 238
Flood, the, 135, 138, 255
Folkes, Martin, 189
Fontenelle, Bernard, 130, 184
Fort, Charles, 301
Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 264
Foucault, Michel, 206, 377, 382
Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, 188
Fowler, Lydia, 314, 322
Fowler, Orson, 313–14, 315, 322
Francesco Capuano da Manfredonia, 105
Frankland, Edward, 345
Franklin, Benjamin, 164, 184, 186
Franz, Wolfgang, 117–18, 129, 133
Freud, Sigmund, 292
Fuchs, Leonard, 122
fundamentalism, Christian, 266, 270


Galen, 37, 39, 45, 48–53, 55, 65, 66, 68, 71,
85, 123, 203
Galileo Galilei, 3, 98, 152, 153–54, 156, 195,
384
Gallup, George, 325
garden: botanical, 120, 127–28, 182, 379,
383, 388, 390–91; of Eden, 127, 128,
390; Jardin du Roi, 136
Gardner, Martin, 300
Gates, Frederick T., 211
Gatterer, Johann Christoph, 193
Gatty, Margaret, 358, 359
Gay- Lussac, Joseph Louis, 188
Geertz, Clifford, 382
Geison, Gerald L., 207
Geller, Uri, 297
Genesis, 88–89
geocentrism, 42
geography, 162, 358; medical, 208
geology, 176, 208, 285, 342, 357, 358


geometry, 188, 203; and mathematics, 150,
151, 162; medieval, 86, 96, 97, 103, 106;
and optics, 149
George, Henry, 365
Gerard, John, 126, 131
Gerard of Cremona, 90
Gerbert of Aurillac, 87
Gernsback, Hugo, 295
Gesner, Conrad, 120, 121, 122, 127, 128, 129
Giberne, Agnes, 358
Gieryn, Thomas, 310
Gilbert, Grove Karl, 324
Gilbert of Poitiers, 93
Gingerich, Owen, 391
Giver of Forms, 60, 63, 69–72, 77
God, 66, 86, 104, 105, 123, 129, 267, 269,
272, 282, 307, 318, 344, 352–53, 354,
366; causal relation to universe, 64, 65,
66, 67–68, 72, 73, 76–77, 93, 98, 26; as
creator, 26, 63, 65, 67, 73, 77, 86, 119,
123, 125, 128, 133, 137, 139, 142, 153,
175, 254, 255, 257, 261, 262, 272, 317,
341, 351–53, 354, 358, 360, 361; and
natural history, 129, 130, 131, 254; and
natural philosophy, 104, 175, 254; and
science, 256–61, 264, 266, 267, 269,
271, 273, 291, 315; as unmoved mover,


  1. See also natural theology; theology
    gods: ancient Greek, 38, 45, 52, 53–56;
    Mesopotamian, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 24,
    25–26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32
    Gould, Benjamin, 346–47
    Gould, Stephen Jay, 142, 273
    Gregory, William King, 389
    Gregory of Tours, 87
    Gresham College, 135
    Grew, Nehemiah, 124, 126
    Gribeauval, Jean- Baptiste Vaquette de, 187,
    188
    Grinter, L. E., 243, 245
    Grosseteste, Robert, 96–97, 98


Hagenbeck, Carl, 390
Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson, 142
Hale, George Ellery, 230–31, 232–33
Halley, Edmond, 158
Hansen, Bert, 216
Harris, George, 261
Harris, John, 133, 162, 176
Harris, Samuel, 255, 257
Harvey, A. McGehee, 211
Harvey, William, 201, 204
Hawking, Stephen, 271
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