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416 Index

Troostwijk, Adriaan Paets van, 181

Tuchman, Arleen, 207

Turner, John, 189

Turner, William, 122

Twain, Mark, 313

Twining, Elizabeth, 358

Tylor, Edward, 344

Tyndall, John, 291, 319, 344, 345, 362; Bel-

fast Address, 339; and naturalism, 288,

339, 351, 356, 359; on theology, 140,

261, 282, 317

UFOs, 295, 298, 299, 301, 310, 326, 327, 328

universities: and the classifi cation of knowl-

edge, 91–94; curriculum of, 100–101,

342; and engineering, 247; and mathe-

matics, 150; medieval, 84, 91–94, 100–

101, 105, 106, 123, 182, 342; modern,

237, 258, 342, 346, 353; and natural his-

tory, 131; partnership with science, 84,

105; and pure science, 231, 233, 234

Valleriola, Franciscus, 204

Veblen, Thorstein, 227, 237, 238, 239

Velikovsky, Immanuel, 296, 297, 326

Verne, Jules, 294

Verner, Samuel P., 389

Vesalius, Andreas, 201

Vespucci, Amerigo, 122

Vettius Valens, 11

Victorian science, 337–75

Vincent of Beauvais, 120

Virchow, Rudolf, 201, 215

Vitruvius, 86

void, 43, 52

Volta, Alessandro, 179, 188

von Behring, Emil, 216

von Däniken, Eric, 297

von Humboldt, Alexander, 368, 385, 386

von Karman, Theodore, 241

von Wolff, Christian, 176

Waddington, C. H., 266

Walker, Eric, 244

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 359, 392

Wallace, William, 131

Wallis, Sarah, 358

Ward, Mary, 358

Warner, John Harley, 208, 215

Waterman, Alan, 240, 242, 244

Watson, John Broadus, 293

Watt, James, 174, 190

Webb, Beatrice, 344

Weber, Ernst, 243, 245

Wedgewood, Josiah, 190

Weinberg, Stephen, 271

Wells, Herbert George, 294

Westenholz, Joan Goodnick, 27–28

Whewell, William, 341, 393; Bridgewater

Treatises, 139; and hypothesis, 312; and

mixed mathematics, 165; on unity of

science, 360–61; and the word “scien-

tist,” 180, 337–38, 342–43, 346, 348

Whiston, William, 135, 137

Whitcomb, John, Jr., 269

White, Andrew Dickson, 263–64

White, Ellen Gould, 282

Whitney, Willis, 231, 234

Whitla, William, 394–96

Wickenden, William, 235

Wilkins, John, 158

William of Conches, 88–89, 94

William of Malmesbury, 203

William of St. Cloud, 103

Williams, Raymond, 225–26, 247

Willoughby, Francis, 124

Wilson, Edward O., 272

Winter, Alison, 285

Winthrop, John, IV, 254

women in science, 357–59, 361, 369. See also

science: popular / popularization of

Wood, John George, 357

Woodward, John, 135

Woodward, R. S., 237

Work, Harold, 243–44, 245

Wright, George Frederick, 317

X- Club, 345–346

Ximenes, Leonardo, 191, 192

Young, Arthur, 189

Young, Thomas, 190

zodiac, 20, 23

zoos, 388, 389–90

zoology, 47, 118, 119, 122, 132, 141, 192,

348

Zornlin, Rosina, 358

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