Authors: Arthur Koestler
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
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
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
Bille,
Steen,
287
Boniface,
92
Book
of
Revolutions,
286
Boromeo,
Cardinal,
431
Boulliau,
502
Boyle,
Robert,
500
Brengger,
Johannes,
348
Brudzewski,
208
Burnet,
Professor,
25
and
Baer,
297
and
Kepler,
276
,
278
,
279
,
282
,
298
,
301
-12
appearance,
283
-4
astrologer,
287
birth,
283
character,
294
-5
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
d'Elci,
Arturo,
431
Della
Porta,
Giovanni,
373