Abulafia, David 48
Académie Royale des Sciences 64
Acton, Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton) 5
Agricola, Georgius 110
Agricultural Revolution 19
agriculture 18-19, 59, 67, 69, 73, 77, 97-99
Alberti, Leon Battista 36
Amsterdam 109
Amsterdam Exchange Bank 109
Anaximander 25
Anaximenes 25
Ancient Egypt. See Egypt
Apollonius 24
Arabic-Islamic mediation 102
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe 105
Aristotle 23, 25, 26, 30, 36, 42, 43, 48, 58, 77
assaying 36
astrology 20
astronomy 11-12, 20-21, 23-24, 30, 34, 36, 51, 56, 88, 91-92, 104, 106, 110, 121
Athens 26
Austria 71
Babbage, Charles 85
Babylon 23
Babylonia 22
Bacháček, Martin. See Bachacius, Martin
Bachacius, Martin 107
Bacon, Francis 11, 55, 59, 60, 75-79, 101
Baer, Nicholas Reymarus (Raymers) 104
balance 38
Banská Štiavnica 71
Bauer, Georg. See Agricola, Georgius
Becher, Johann Joachim 115-118, 119-120
Bellarmino, Cardinal Roberto Francesco Romolo 121
Bernal, John Desmond 124
Boerhaave, Herman 112
Bohadsch, Johan Tauffer. See Boháč, Jan Křtitel
Bohemia 9, 51, 59, 67, 69-73, 105, 110-112
Bohemian Society of Sciences 72-73
Born, Ignaz (Inigo) von 67, 71-72
Böttger, Johann Friedrich 65
Boyle, Robert 11, 48-53, 56, 58, 62, 113, 115, 120
Boyle’s Law 50
Brahe, Tycho 51, 104, 106, 107
Breslau/Wrócław 107
Brunelleschi, Filippo 36
Bürgi, Jo(o)st 104
Burnet, Thomas 121
Calvin, John 120
capitale 46
capitalism 7-9, 8, 47-48, 53, 68, 80, 90-91, 93, 97-99, 102, 109, 122, 124
Cardwell, Donald 33
Catholic League 108
Clusius, Carolus 103
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste 64
colonialism 119
Columbus, Christopher 35
combustion 41
Cook, Harold John 102, 108, 109, 111
Copernicus, Nicolaus 11-13, 15, 47, 92
Corfield, Penelope J. 8
Council of Trent 106
Croll, Oswald 103
Crombie, Alistair 11, 29-32, 35, 39
cycle-mindedness 117
Darwin, Charles 13
Debenham, Frank 95
Dee, John 103
Descartes, René 22, 43, 59, 78-82, 108, 120
Diaz, Bartholomew 35
Dodoens, Rembert 103
Dresden 66
Dutch Republic 108
Efron, Noah J. 106
Einstein, Albert 13
Elizabeth I, Queen of England 107
Elizabeth, Princess of Bohemia 81
empirical knowledge 16, 19, 21
Ercker, Lazarus 110
experience 9, 16, 21, 26, 43, 123
experimentation 9, 15, 27, 29, 40, 47, 49-50, 52-53, 77, 123
feudalism 7-9, 8, 47-48, 53, 93, 97-99, 102, 124
Findlen, Paula 103
Finley, Moses 24
form and matter 25
Fürstenberg, Prince Karl Egon 66, 72
Galilei, Galileo 11, 47, 87, 92, 104, 120, 123
Gans, David 106
Gellner, Ernest 6
Geneva 120
Germany 15, 41, 64-65, 115-116
Ghiberti, Lorenzo 36
Gould, Stephen Jay 18
Graham, Angus Charles 90-92, 93
gravitation 11
Gresham, Thomas 56
Gundissalvo, Domingo 37
Haak, Theodore 58
Habermehl, Erasmus 104
Hagecius, Thaddeous 51-52, 104, 105, 107, 110
Hájek z Hájku, Tadeáš. See Hagecius, Thaddeous
Hall, Alfred Rupert 29, 38, 49, 54, 63, 101-102
Harrison, John 57
Hero 24
Hessen, Boris Mikhailovich 85-86, 113-114
Hicks, John 7
Hill, Christopher 8
Ho, Chêng. See He, Zheng
Holland 60
Holorenshaw, Henry (pseudonym for Needham, Joseph) 96. See also Needham, Joseph
Hornigk, Philipp Wilhelm von 68-69
hydrostatics 37
Inquisition 120
institutionalisation 49
institutionalisation of science 15, 55, 65
Isaac, Glyn 16
Italy 15
Jáchymov (Joachimsthal) 110
Jessenius, Jan (Johannes) 107
Kelley, Edward 103
Kepler, Johannes 11, 104, 106, 107
Kiernan, Victor 111
Kinsky, Franz Joseph (František Josef) 71-72
Komenský, Jan Amos. See Comenius
Krohn, Wolfgang 76
Kutná Hora (Kuttenberg) 110
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent 12-13, 39-41
law(s) of nature 15, 22, 77, 97
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 22, 43, 48, 64-66, 119-120
Leipzig 66
linear perspective 35
Linnaeus, Carolus 68, 69, 111, 120
Linné, Carl von. See Linnaeus, Carolus
Livy 37
Louis XIV, King of France 64
Low Countries 109
magic 104
Maier, Michael 103
Manchester 121
Maria Theresa, Empress 69-70, 112
Maricourt, Pierre de. See Peregrinus, Petrus
market 45, 47, 98, 107-108, 116
Marx, Karl 7, 68, 80, 98, 103, 114, 121-122
mathematics 24, 27, 30-31, 36, 45, 47, 58, 68, 106, 119
matter 25, 76, 82, 90, 97, 117, 120
measurements 18
of time 19
mechanical philosophy 48
medicine 23-24, 27, 56, 69, 102, 108, 113, 119
mercantile capitalism 97
mercantilist policies. See mercantilism
merchant capital 46-47, 85, 102, 116, 124
Middle Ages 30-31, 35-36, 38-39, 48, 124
Ming dynasty 93
mysticism 104
Nakayama, Shigeru 92
Nassau, Maurice 108
natura 23
natural philosophy 25, 27, 31-32, 52, 58, 85, 97, 114, 117, 119
Needham, Joseph 22, 33, 86-98, 113, 117
Needham’s two ‘Grand Questions’ 86-87
Neolithic Age 18
Neoplatonism 30
Newton, Isaac 11-12, 15, 22, 43, 44, 53, 62, 85-86, 111, 113-115, 120-121
observation 9, 14, 16, 21, 26, 31, 123
Olieu, Pierre de Jean. See Olivi, Peter John
Olivi, Peter John 46
oxygen theory of combustion 13
Pagel, Walter 117
Palaeolithic art 16
Pasteur, Louis 90
Peloponnesian war 26
Peregrinus, Petrus 35
period of manufacture (Manufakturperiode) 68, 80
perpetual motion machines 117
Peru 103
Petrasch, Joseph von 70
Petty, William 67
physics 24, 45, 50, 68, 114, 119
Plato 77
Plutarch 36
Poda, Nicolaus 71
Polanyi, Michael 29
polis 26
Pollock, Susan 18
Polybios 37
Portugal 35
Pozzo Toscanelli, Paolo dal 36
Prague 51, 59, 67, 69-70, 72, 103, 105-107
precession of the equinoxes 20, 24
Presocratics 25
primitive accumulation of capital 98, 103
principle of conservation of matter 39-41
Private Learned Society 67, 69, 72
quantification 9, 15, 29, 40, 123
of qualities 42
of space 34
of time 32
Renaissance 9, 30, 105, 117, 124
respiration 41
Rome 55
Royal Bohemian Society 72
Royal Society 53-54, 55-58, 60-64, 67, 75
Rozier, François 41
Schaffer, Simon 49-50, 52-53, 113-114
scientific naturalism 105
scientific societies 15, 62, 67-69
Seguin, Armand 41
Servetus, Michael 120
Shakespeare, William 8
Shapin, Steven 48-53, 83, 90, 113
Society of Unknown Scholars 70
soul and body 25
Stepling, Joseph 70
Sung, Su 33
Swieten, Gerard van 112
systematisation 9, 14, 26, 29, 123
Thales 25
theory of evolution 13
Thirty Years War 64, 82, 107-110, 115-116
Thompson, Edward Palmer 8
time 13, 17-19, 33. See also mechanical clock
Toth, Nicholas 16
Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried Walther 65-66
Ulm 108
Uroboros 117
vacuum pump 49
Valois, Philip de 38
Vienna 72
Vinci, Leonardo da 105
Voltaire 11
Weber, Max 98
Whewell, William 85