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Democritus,
60

De
Nova
Stella
,
289
-90

Descartes,
René,
13
,
498
,
500
,
501
,
525
,
529

De
Stella
Nova
,
361

Dialogue
on
The
Flux
and
Reflux
of
the
Tides
,
466
,
473
-2

Dialogue
on
the
Great
Systems
of
the
World
,
406

Dialogoes
Concerning
Two
New
Sciences
,
491

Digges,
Thomas,
213
,
289

Dingle,
Professor,
192

Dini,
Cardinal
Piero,
358
,
444
,
445
,
446
,
447
,
449
,
450
,
453
,
454
,
472

Dionysus-Bacchus
cult,
33
-6

Dioptrice
,
379
-80

Discourse
on
Comets
,
467

Discovery,
psychology
of

Copernician
system,
202
-13

gravity,
502
-8

Kepler's
laws,
252
,
253
,
255
,
259
,
262
3,
278
-9

cosmology,
314
et
seq.
,
332
,
333
,
334
-6,
394
-8

mathematical
relations
of
universe,
40

mental
evolution,
518
et
seq.

modern
astronomy,
33

planetary
orbits,
201

Platonic
and
Pythagorean
universe,
51
-7,
59
-62

Ptolemaic
universe,
69
-75

Disputationes
,
444

Divine
Institutions
,
89

Doctrines
of
Physics
,
191

Donavarus,
Sigismund
Christopher,
421

Donne,
John,
214
,
215
,
216
,
218
,
367
,
370
,
508

Donner,
George,
185

Dryden,
32

Duracotus,
416
,
419

EARTH

Kepler's
study
of,
324

motion
of,
42
,
58
-9,
475
-9

Copernicus
and,
193
,
194
,
195
-7,
201
,
204
,
217
,
316
-8,
324

religious
conflict
on,
431

theories
on shape of

circular
disc,
22
,
31

cylindrical
column,
23

hollow
mountain,
19

like
the
Holy
Tabernacle,
90

rectangular
box,
20

spherical
ball,
31
,
93

Eccentrics,
see
Epicycles
and
eccentrics

Ecclesiastical
Hierarchy,
The
,
95

Eddington,
Sir
Arthur,
531
-2

Einstein,
A.,
14
,
313
,
339

Egidii,
Father
Clemente,
482

Egyptian
universe,
20
,
46

Eleatics,
the,
60

Elements
,
105

Elephant
in
the
Moon,
The
,
419

Emanation
theory,
94
-9

Empedokles,
26

Ephemerides,
415

Epicycles
and
eccentrics,
67
-8,
100
,
122
,
171
,
191
,
192
,
193
-4,
277
,
286
,
326
,
329
,
406
,
438
,
447
,
452
,
507
,
513
,
530
,
542

Copemician
system
of,
193
et
seq.
,
201
,
202
et
seq.
,
317
,
318
,
324

Galileo
defends,
378
,
437
,
476

Kepler's
innovations
disprove,
316
et
seq.

Newton's
synthesis,
504
-9

Epistles
,
136
-7

Epitome
Astronomiae
Copernicanae
,
406

Erasmus,
110
-11,
139
,
198
,
522

Eratosthenes,
70

Ernest,
Duke
of
Bavaria,
378

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