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Aristotle,
14
,
27
,
33
,
52
,
53
,
54
,
55
,
62
,
104
,
196
,
197

circular
motion
theory,
58
-60
Galileo
and,
475
-9

compared
with
Plato,
53
-7

physics,
108
-11

Plato's
hostility
to,
52

politics,
54

rediscovery
of,
106
-13

resurrected,
52

"spheres
within
spheres",
64
-5

Assayer,
The
,
468
,
529

Astrology

Kepler
and,
242
-6

medieval,
111
-2

Tycho
and,
287

Astronomia
Nova
,
170
,
259
.
See
alsoNew
Astronomy
and
Physics
of
the
Skies

Astronomical
and
Philosophical
Balance,
The
,
468

Astronomy

accuracy
of
Babylonian
observations,
20
-21

importance
of
continuous
observa-
tion,
286

Kepler
founder
of
modern,
33

objects
of
Ptolemaic,
74

Plato's
attitude
to,
52

Ptolemaic
system,
66
-77

Augustine,
86
-8,
89
,
90
,
435
,
436

BABYLONIAN
universe,
19
-21

Bacon,
Francis,
529

Bacon,
Roger,
107

Baer,
Reymens
(Ursus
the
Bear),
296
,
297
,
298
,
302

Brberini,
Cardinal
Antonio,
483

Baarberini,
Cardinal
Francesco,
485
,
492

Barberini,
Cardinal
Maffeo,
431
,
445
,
453
,
454
,
457
,
471
,
483

character,
471
-3

See
also
Urban
VIII,
Pope

Basil
the
Great,
90

Bede,
92

Bellarmine,
Cardinal
Robert,
426
,
443
,
444
,
445
,
446
,
449
,
450
,
451
,
453
,
454
,
459
,
460
,
462
,
484

death,
471

statement
on
Copernicus,
447
-8
on
injunction
against
Galileo,
463

Bernegger,
Matthias,
412
,
421
,
494

Bessarion,
Cardinal,
149
,
208

Bille,
Steen,
287

Boniface,
92

Book
of
Revolutions,
286

Borelli,
Giovanni,
501
,
523

Boromeo,
Cardinal,
431

Boscagli,
Dr.,
432
,
433

Boulliau,
502

Boyle,
Robert,
500

Brengger,
Johannes,
348

Bruce
Edmund,
360
,
361

Brudzewski,
208

Bruno,
Giordano,
153
,
213
,
444

Burnet,
Professor,
25

de
Brahe,
Tycho,
274
,
283
-300

and
Baer,
297

and
Kepler,
276
,
278
,
279
,
282
,
298
,
301
-12

appearance,
283
-4

astrologer,
287

at
Benatek,
299
,
300
,
301
-12

birth,
283

character,
294
-5

death,
308
,
311
-12

instruments,
285
,
289
,
292
-3

jealousy
of
Kepler,
304
-6

meeting
with
Kepler,
302
-3

observatory
at
Hveen,
291
-4

one
epoch-making
discovery,
285

quarrels
with
Kepler,
305
-8

sextant,
289

the
New
Star,
288
-90

Uraniburg,
291
et
seq.

De
Coclo
,
199

de
la
Torre,
Marcus
Antonius,
134

Delambre,
J.
B.,
321
,
338

d'Elci,
Arturo,
431

Della
Porta,
Giovanni,
373

del
Monte,
Cardinal,
453
,
454

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