Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

Index 415

301, 308, 310, 312–13, 315, 316, 317,
319, 320, 322, 325, 326, 327, 328; Ro-
man contributions to, 84–85; specializa-
tion of, 294, 321, 322; and technology,
15, 225, 226–27, 233, 236–40, 246, 247,
329–30; theistic, 271; the word, 1–4, 83,
86, 90, 95, 204, 254, 256, 265, 282, 338,
341, 378–79
science fi ction, 294–95
scientifi c method, 307–8, 310–30, 344;
emergence of, 6; medieval, 95; quantita-
tive, 21; and pseudoscience, 292, 298;
and religion, 264–65; the term, 308,
310–11. See also science: rhetoric of
Scientifi c Revolution, 2, 5, 78
scientist, 230, 232, 233, 234, 236, 244, 246,
318, 320, 327; the word, 142, 180, 256,
289, 311, 316, 337–38, 339, 346, 348,
362, 367. See also natural philosopher;
science: professionalization of
Second, Ann, 383
Secord, James (Jim), 355, 363, 368, 393
secret knowledge, 27–30
secrets of nature, 29–30
secularization, 261, 350, 356, 358, 361, 363,
364, 366
Sedgwick, Adam, 241
Seeger, Raymond, 243
Sergeant, John, 133
Seubert, Adolf Friedrich, 393–94
’sGravesande, Willem Jacob, 176
Shapin, Steven, 379, 380, 384
Shermer, Michael, 300
Sigerist, Henry, 201–2
Siger of Brabant, 93, 103
Silliman, Benjamin, 285
Simon, Vivienne, 327
Skinner, Charles, 231
Small, Albion Woodbury, 290
Smethurst, Arthur F., 268
Smith, Gerald Birney, 262
sociology, 290, 292–93, 296, 300, 308, 325,
349
Somerville, Mary, 337–38, 339, 357
Sosigenes of Alexandria, 85
Speke, John Hanning, 386
Spencer, Herbert, 344, 345, 350, 356, 359,
362
Spilhaus, Fred, 328
Spottiswoode, William, 345
Sprackland, Robert George, 329
Spratt, Thomas, 125, 127
statistics, 193–94

Steele, Sir Richard, 184

Steinmetz, Charles, 229, 231–32, 235

Stephen, Leslie, 344

Stevenson, Earl, 244

Stevenson, Polly, 184

Steward, John, 238

Stolper, Edward M., 30

Strabo, 11

Stoicism, 43, 52, 54–55, 56, 65

Sufi sm, 74

superstition, 201

surgery, 207, 209, 216; medieval, 92, 94,

103, 204

Sylvestris, Bernard, 88, 105

Swineshead, Richard, 98

taboo, 29

Tait, Peter Guthrie, 351

Talbot, Samson, 256

Talbot, William Henry Fox, 12

Tartaglia, Niccolò, 151, 152

Taylor, Andrew, 213

Taylor, Hugh, 238–39

Teare, B. R., 245

technology, 15, 188, 225–52, 329–30. See

also science: and technology

teleology, 48, 49, 50–52, 53, 87

temple, Babylonian, 31–33

Templeton Foundation, 253

Tennant, Frederick Robert, 268

Tenneur, Jean Le, 156

Theodoric of Freiberg, 97, 103

theology, 268, 272, 282, 285, 288, 317–18,

339, 342; ancient, 43, 45–46, 50, 52,

54–55; and astronomy, 153; biblical,

260; dogmatic, 263; empirical, 264;

Islamic, 73, 77; medieval, 84, 91, 92, 93,

94, 96, 98, 101, 103, 104–6, 125–26; as

pseudoscience, 290; and religion, 261,

264; as a science; 3, 94, 104–5, 256, 265,

266, 272. See also natural theology

Theophrastus of Eresus, 47, 120

Thomas Aquinas, 77, 97, 103, 104, 105, 151

Thompson, Elihu, 228, 238

Thompson, Silvanus, 228

Thomson, William, 339, 351–53

Thomsonianism, 212, 213, 284

Thurston, Robert, 229–30, 231, 232, 233, 235

Timoshenko, Stephen, 241

Topsell, Edward, 119–20, 121, 127, 129

Tradescant, John, the Elder, 128

Tradescant, John, the Younger, 127, 390

trivium, 88, 90, 92, 95, 150