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Anaxmenes'
theory
of,
23

Aristarchus's
cosmology,
48
-50

Aristotle's,
59
-62,
64
abandonment
of,
427

Baer's
system,
297

Copernicus's
seven
axioms,
145
system,
191
-219,
316
,
456
,
495
fn.

"cosmic
cup",
269
-71

"diabolocentric",
96

enclosed
by
water,
90

Ferris-wheel,
66
-9

heliocentric
system,
45
-50,
72
,
73
,
99
-100,
205
,
209
,
213
,
215

Herakleides
Cosmology,
45
-8,
99
-100

Kepler's
perfect
solids,
247
-61
system,
316
-43,
406

medieval
Christian,
215
-6

Newton's
system,
504
-9

Philolaus's
theory,
42
-4

Plato's,
57
-8,
63

Ptolemy's,
66
-75,
122

Pythagorean,
31
-3,
261
-7

queries
on
formation,
22

rectangular,
20
,
85
-92

sun-centred,
49
,
258
,
261

Tycho's
system,
46
,
294
,
297
,
427

uniform
circular
motion,
59
-62,
66
,
76
-7

walled-in,
94

Urban
VIII,
Pope,
357
,
425
,
431
,
442
,
533

and
Galileo,
472
et
seq.

Usher,
Bishop,
526

Utopia
,
54

VEDEL,
Anders
Soerensen,
285

Vieta,
Francois,
320

Virgil
(Fergil),
92

Visconti,
Father,
480
,
481

Vistula,
river,
119
,
120
,
121

Vitruvius,
50

WACKHER
von
,
Wackenfels,
Johannes
Matthaeus,
351
,
370
,
372

Wallenstein,
Duke
of,
243

Wallenstein,
General,
413
-4,
419
,
420

Walther,
Johann,
209

Wapowsky,
Canon
Bernhard,
146

Watzelrode,
Barbara
(Frau
Koppernigk),
126

Watzelrode,
Christina,
126

Watzelrode,
Lucas,
126

character,
126
-7

death,
140

influence
on
Copernicus,
127

Weight,
definitions
of,
499
-501

Weil-der-Stadt,
225

Welser,
Marcus,
429
,
430

Weltschmerz
,
107

Wermuth,
Christian,
187

Werner,
Johannes,
146
,
200

Whitehead,
Professor,
52
,
112
,
527
-8,
533

Whittaker,
Sir
Edmund,
537

Wilhelm
IV,
the
Landgraf
,
290
-1

William
of
Ockham,
110

Wotton,
Sir
Henry,
412

Wren,
Christopher,
502

Wuerttemberg,
Frederick
Duke
of,
269
-70

XENOPHANES
of
Kolophon,
23
-4,
25

Ximines,
Father,
442

ZACHARIAS,
Pope,
92

Ziegler,
Jacob,
210

Zinner,
Ernst,
170

Zodiac,
21

Zuniga,
Diego
de,
456

1
Newton's
First
Law
of
Motion
was
in
fact
formulated
by
Descartes.

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