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Eudoxus,
63
,
64
,
65
,
66
,
78

Eupalinos,
26
,
39

Evolution,

biological,
514
-5

mental,
513
et
seq.

FABRICIUS,
David,
347

Fabricius,
Johannes,
429

Femme
au
Miroir
,
78

Ferber,
Bishop
Mauritius,
134
,
143
,
179

Ferdinand,
Archduke
(
Emperor),
279
,
308

Ferdinand
II,
king,
283

Fergil
(Virgil),
92

Ferris-wheel
universe,
66
-9

Fiesole,
Bishop
of,
439

Firenzuola,
Father
Vinco,
470
,
484
,
485

First
Account
,
158
,
213

Fischer,
Jacob,
421

Flachsbinder,
Johannes
(Bishop
Dantiscus),
175

Fludd,
Robert,
397

Forsther,
T.,
165
,
166

Foscarini,
Antonio,
446
,
447
,
456
,
460

Frauenberg,
119
,
121

Frederick
II,
king
of
Denmark,
290
,
291

Frederick
III,
Emperor,
208

Friedrich,
Johan,
164

Frisius,
Gemma,
177
,
186

Fugger,
Georg,
373

Fundaments
of
Astronomy
,
296
,
299

GAETANI,
Cardinal,
457
,
458

Galda,
Ysope
de,
176

Galilei,
Galileo,
see
Galileo

Galilei,
Vincento,
353

Galileo,
13
,
14

a
Copernician,
357
,
430
,
475

and
Capra,
362

and
circular
motion
theory,
475
-6

and
Kepler,
274
,
275
,
351
,
375
-6

and
the
Inquisition,
484
-95

and
the
sunspots,
429
-30,
477
-8

antagonizes
Aristotelians,
428
,
431
Jesuit
astronomers,
430

appearance,
354

arrival
in
Rome,
451

arrogance,
354

attack
on
Tycho's
comets,
468

attacks
on
Jesuits,
468
-71

attitude
on
unproven
propositions,
436
-7,
447

birth,
353

capacity
to
provoke
hatred,
368

Chair
of
Mathematics,
Padua,
354

challenged
to
prove
Copernicus
right,
447
-9

character,
354
,
368

controversy
over
injunction
against,
462
-3

correspondence
with
Kepler,
355
,
356
,
358
-61

death,
353
,
495

definition
of
"weight",
499
,
500

Dialogue
confiscated,
482
-3

discoveries
confirmed
by
Jesuits,
426

efforts
to
silence
theological
objections
to
Copernicus,
434

explanation
of
miracle
of
Joshua,
438
-9

fear
of
ridicule,
358

honoured
in
Rome,
426

hostility
of
scholars
to,
368
-70

ignores
Kepler,
360
,
361
,
370
,
371
,
374
,
425

inaccurate
maps,
366

Kepler's
support
of,
370
-8

laws,
497

manifesto
of
freedom
of
thought,
435
-6

on
comets,
467

polemical
writings,
361
-2

Pope
Urban
VIII's
friendship
for,
472
-3

refutes
his
own
scientific
theories,
487
-9

sentence
a
miscarriage
of
justice,
493

support
of
Catholic
Church,
357

the
Sidereus
Nuncias
,
364
-8
impact
on
the
world,
367
-8

the
telescope,
353
,
363
et
seq.
,
374
-5

theory
of
the
tides,
453
-4,
464
-6,
479

Gall,
phrenologist,
226

Gassarus,
Achilles
Perminius,
163

Gassendi,
284

Gerbert,
93

Ghisileri,
Federico,
452

Giese,
Canon
Tiedemann,
122
,
142
,
143
,
173
,
185
,
357
,
383
,
522

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