Science Secrets

by Alberto A. Martinez

  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