Pythagoreans, and the Bible, 35, 36; on beans, 244; on burials, 74–75; on change, 103; on circular motion, 16–17; on Earth's motion, 13, 15, 19, 25, 31, 35, 41–45, 247, 261, 269; on hell, 269; and heresies, 40–43, 266; on the infinity of space, 30, 41; on life on the moon, 31; on numbers or numerology, 130, 266, 268; on music, 55, 132; on “the prison of Jupiter,” 55, 273; and the regular solids, 28, 38, 41; on secrecy, 22, 28, 38, 41; on transmigration of souls, 8, 13. See also Pythagoras
“Pythagorean” theorem, 125, 189
radioactivity, 85–92
Ramsay, Andrew Michael, 274
Ramsay, William, 89
Raven, Peter H., 98
Ray, John, 98
Reinhold, Erasmus, 23
Reiser, Anton. See Kayser, Rudolf
relativity of simultaneity. See simultaneity, relativity of
relativity theory, 165, 173, 183, 185–96, 198–99, 201–2, 206–22, 226, 240, 248, 301
Renieri, Vincenzo, 7–9, 10, 259–60
retrograde motion, 16–18, 20–21
Riccioli, Giovanni, 10
Richardson, Owen, 159
Rigden, John, 307
Rodríguez, Silvio, 254
Romas, Jacques de, 120, 122–23, 288, 289
Roosevelt, Theodore, 235
Rømer, Ole, 178–80, 300
Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad, 90
Rosicrucians, 280–81
Rothman, Christopher, 25
Rothman, Tony, xiii, xv
Rowling, Joanne K., 93
Royal Astronomical Society, 67
Royal Society, 51, 69
Rudolph II, Emperor, 26
Rutherford, Ernest, 87–89, 91, 148, 159, 240, 295
Sagan, Carl, 74
Sarpi, Paolo, 7
satyr, 71
Sauter, Josef, 208–9, 211–13
Savić, Helene, 196, 203
Scheiner, Christoph, 34
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 225–26
Schulmann, Robert, 196, 304
Schultz, Alfred, 235
Schuster, Arthur, 154–57, 161
Scott, Sir Walter, 60
secrets, xvi, 93, 253; of alchemy, 70, 71, 74, 76–85, 278; of Boyle, 82; of Copernicus, 19, 22, 41; and Darwin, 109, 117; and Einstein, 165, 168, 169–70, 172, 216, 238; and Einstein's wife, 193–96, 200, 249; and Franklin, 123–24; of God, 90, 165; and Kepler, 28, 32, 38, 265; of life after death, 128–29; and Newton, 48, 55, 58, 83, 274; and Pythagoras, 40, 71, 73, 74, 265, 278
Sedgwick, Adam, 101
Seelig, Carl, 219, 220
Sellers, Piers, 69
Settle, Thomas B., 259
Shelley, Mary, 129
simultaneity, 176–78, 183–88; as a convention, 183; of falling bodies, 5–6, 10, 259; relativity of, 173, 184–88. See also synchrony of clocks
Smith, Barnabas, 49, 65
Smith, George E., 294
Solomon, 74, 85
Solovine, Moritz, 197, 200, 205, 217, 221, 223, 301, 308
Soddy, Frederick, 87–91, 281
space, 22, 24, 30, 50, 163, 192, 219, 222
speed of light. See light speed
Spence, Joseph, 274
Spinoza, Baruch, 166, 170, 171, 225, 309
spirit séances, 160
Stachel, John, 194, 200, 217–18, 307
Staley, Richard, 212
Stallo, Johann Bernhard, 299
Stark, Johannes, 240
sterilization laws, 235, 237–39, 311
Stevin, Simon, 6
Stoney, George Johnstone, 155, 292
Strassmann, Fritz, 148
Struve, Wilhelm, 270
Stukeley, William, 49–50, 53–54, 64, 67
St. Vincent, J. Bory de, 111
Sulloway, Frank J., 96–98, 106, 117, 252
Sutherland, William, 295
synchrony of clocks, 175–78, 180–83, 208–13, 249, 306. See also simultaneity
syrens, 218, 307
Taylor, John, 259
Taylor, Thomas, 75–76
Terman, Lewis, 235, 311
Thales of Miletus, 55, 129, 228, 290
Thomson, George Paget, 163
Thomson, Joseph John, 147–63; on atoms, 148–49, 291; on electrons, 152, 159, 294; experiments by, 150–53, 157, 294
Thomson, William, 149
time, absolute, 173, 175, 192, 299; dilation of, 188–89; Mach on, 175; Newton on, 299–300; Poincaré on, 179, 183; relative, 185–89, 299–300. See also Einstein, on time; simultaneity; synchrony of clocks
Towneley, Richard, 279
transmigration of souls, 8–9, 29, 30, 40–42, 47, 72, 73, 266, 267
transmutation, of matter, 71–93, 158, 278, 280; of species, 95, 97, 108–10, 285
Trbuhović-Gjurić, Desanka, 198
Tree of Knowledge, 58–59
Trevisan, Bernard, 77
Trinity College, Cambridge, 49, 69, 149
Trumpler, Maria, 141
Trut, Lyudmila, 245
Tucker, Tom, 122, 125
Turnor, Charles, 67, 68
Turnor, Christopher, 68
Turnor, Edmund, 65, 66
uniformitarianism, 102–4
Ure, Andrew, 130
Valentine, Basil, 77–83, 92, 280
Vallentin, Antonina, 308
Varchi, Benedetto, 4–5, 258
Viviani, Vincenzio, 3, 8–10, 260
Voltaire, 51–54, 57, 61, 64, 272
Waddington, George, 267
Walker, Evan Harris, 198–99
Walker Richard, 66–67
Walker, William, 66–67
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 227, 309–10
Waller, John, xiii
Wells, H. G., 91
Wertheimer, Max, 301
Westfall, Richard, 64
White, Michael, 63
Wiechert, Emil, 156, 161
Wien, Wilhelm, 194
Will, George, 214
Wolff, Bertrand, 141, 291
Wundt, Wilhelm, 221
Zackheim, Michele, 198
Zeeman, Pieter, 156, 161, 293
Zeleny, John, 158
Zeus, god of sky and thunder, 40, 57, 120, 273
Zuñiga, Diego de, 25, 36
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