Aguilon, François, 20, 190–92, 196
Aristotle, 2, 36, 52, 87–88, 100, 106n17, 131n23, 181, 182, 257, 265, 282, 309, 315
Bacon, Francis, 6, 12, 17, 51–56, 59–69, 70nn1–2, 70n4, 71n6, 72n10, 72nn14–17, 73n18, 73n20, 74n34, 75nn36–39, 76n41, 76n43, 76n49, 113, 129n7, 185
Barrow, Isaac, 16, 19, 22, 45–47, 161, 164, 168–73, 175n14, 309–10, 315–16, 328–29, 334n7, 335n24
Beeckman, Isaac, 87, 95, 98, 101–2, 139
Bellini, Lorenzo, 251–52
Benedetti, Giovanni Battista, 86, 186
Berkeley, George, 32
Bradwardine, Thomas, 89
Burtt, E. A., 9–10, 86–87, 112, 115–16, 118–19, 128n2, 251
Claggett, Marshall, 99
Conway, Anne, 264–65
Da Vinci, Leonardo, 86–87
De Bergerac, Cyrano, 254–55, 270
De Boodt, Anselm, 188–89, 199n17
Descartes, René, 5–6, 11, 18, 82, 94–98, 101, 103, 109n38, 115–28, 129n15, 130n16, 130nn18–19, 131nn22–23, 135–40, 142, 145, 148–49, 150–52, 155n14, 157n26, 160, 250–54, 256–57, 275, 285–88, 302, 313, 321, 329–30
Desgabet, Robert, 131n20
Dijksterhuis, Eduard Jan, 11–12, 112–13, 115–19, 129n7, 251
Drake, Stillman, 83
Du Roure, Jacques, 122, 124–25, 127, 132
Euclid, 152, 161, 163–64, 167–68, 181, 206
Ferdinando, Epiphanio, 190
Forcadel, Pierre, 57
Frisi, Paolo, 106n19
Galilei, Galileo, 3–4, 6–10, 13, 16–17, 23n1, 29–47, 81–94, 98, 100–103, 106n19, 114–15, 134–35, 140–46, 155n13, 156n18, 160, 174n2, 189–90, 192–93, 200n19, 221n12, 275, 277, 285, 288, 299n13, 318
Gassendi, Pierre, 46
Halley, Edmond, 309, 318, 334n13
Harriot, Thomas, 214, 217–20, 223n33
Heytesbury, William, 99
Hobbes, Thomas, 6, 18–19, 135, 146–53, 156nn21–22, 275–76, 280–83, 290, 301n23, 309–10, 334n6
Huygens, Christian, 5, 82, 322–23
Kant, Immanuel, 8, 253, 278, 295, 300nn18–19
Kepler, Johannes, 3, 47n1, 319–21, 325, 335n19
Koyré, Alexander, 10–11, 13, 20, 20n3, 24n5, 84, 86–89, 93, 100, 112–14, 128n4, 129n6, 129n11, 206, 251
Kuhn, Thomas, 12, 72n15, 82–83, 104
Le Grand, Antoine, 121–23, 125–26
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 21–22, 82, 117, 229–45, 247n14, 248n32, 251–70, 279–81, 288–95
Locke, John, 35–36, 38, 279, 295
Malaspina, Celio, 178–81, 185, 190, 198
Mersenne, Marin, 101
Mocenigo, Filippo, 186–89
More, Henry, 257, 268, 276, 278, 292
Nachtomy, Ohad, 257, 262–63, 268
Newton, Isaac, 5, 12–13, 19, 22, 82, 98, 160, 173–74, 206, 220–21, 295, 308–33
Oresme, Nicolas, 92
Pastorino, Cesare, 51–52
Pythagoras, 180, 186, 197–98; Pythagorean Ratios, 181–83, 185–86, 190–93
Régis, Pierre–Sylvain, 121–23, 125, 127, 131n21, 132n24
Renn, Jürgen, 88, 102, 107n21, 107n24
Rohault, Jacques, 121–22, 124–25
Saville, Henry, 206
Scarmiglioni, Guido Antonio, 188–89
Spinoza, Baruch, 5–6, 274–77, 281, 283–84, 287–88, 292, 302n29
Swineshead, Richard, 98–99
Velázquez, Diego, 15–19
Wolff, Christian, 283–85, 300n18
Wren, Christopher, 318
Wright, Edward, 211, 214–20, 222n24
Zarlino, Gioseffo, 186–88