Authors: Arthur Koestler
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
Fischer,
Jacob,
421
Flachsbinder,
Johannes
(Bishop
Dantiscus),
175
Fludd,
Robert,
397
Foscarini,
Antonio,
446
,
447
,
456
,
460
Frederick
II,
king
of
Denmark,
290
,
291
Frederick
III,
Emperor,
208
Friedrich,
Johan,
164
Fugger,
Georg,
373
Galda,
Ysope
de,
176
Galilei,
Galileo,
see
Galileo
Galilei,
Vincento,
353
and
Capra,
362
and
circular
motion
theory,
475
-6
and
the
Inquisition,
484
-95
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
controversy
over
injunction
against,
462
-3
correspondence
with
Kepler,
355
,
356
,
358
-61
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