INDEX Pages including illustrations are in italics Abano, Pietro d’, 14, 47, 75n, 106, 110, 110n, Alexander, J.J.G., 392n 117, 131, 133, 133n, 137, 267, 270, 270n, 340, Alexandria, 15, 17, 342 342, 361, 363, 368 Alfonso X of Castile, 26, 67n, 69–70, 72, Abeele, Baudouin van de, 30n 127, 134, 198 Abenezrah, Kinki, 168 al-Kindi, 29, 128 Abohali, 3 Allen, Don Cameron, 189n Abraham bar Ḥiyya (Savasorda), 100, 106–7 Allen, Michael J.B, 268n Abraham ibn Ezra (Abenezra), 15, 70n, 100, al-Mamun, 103 106, 110, 110n, 118n, 125, 125n, 126 almanac, 24, 97, 138, 141, 149–50, 155, 157, Abry, Josèphe-Henriette, 36n, 53n 161, 163–75, 177, 188–190, 195n, 216, 220–1, Abū Maʿšar, 21, 21n, 29, 29n, 46, 104, 104n, 230, 256, 312–3, 314n, 320, 322, 328–31, 338–9, 339n, 340–2, 344 387, 411, 414, 423, 425 Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of the al-Mansur, 103 Lynxes), 324 Alphonsine Tables, 26, 67, 67n, 72, 131, acceleration, 240 249 Accorinti, Domenico, 36n al-Khwarizmi, 66–68 Ackermann, Silke, 356n, 359n, 360n al-Souphi, 127 Acosta, José de, 400n, 402, 402n, 409n Altobelli, Ilario, 65n Adelard of Bath, 21, 21n Alverny, Marie-Therèse d’, 345n Adorno, Theodor, 431, 432n al-Zarqali, 66–68 aether, 275 Amabile, Luigi, 185n, 186n, 316n, 327n Agostino di Duccio, 375 Ammann, Peter J., 261n Agrippa von Nettesheim, Cornelius, 53–4, Angeli, Alessandro degli, 412n 97 angle, 44, 59, 63–4, 121, 240, 242, 409n Ahmad ibn Yusuf ibn al-Dayah, 92 Anima mundi, 244–5 Aiton, E.J., 244n Annus mirabilis, 1484 as, 30; 1524 as, 183 Akasoy, Anna, 6n Antichrist, 97, 101, 113–5, 120, 123, 179–80 Alba de Aliste, Luis Enríquez, Conde de, Antiochus of Athens, 78 409, 409n, 410–1 Antonio de Santa Maria, 424 al-Battānī, 66, 73, 73n, 127 aphelion, 244 Albert duke of Prussia, 249 apogee, 17, 71–2, 240, 403 Albert the Great, 96 Aponensis, Petrus, 47n Alberti, leon Battista, 40 Aquarius, 46n, 52n, 106, 119, 154, 325, Albertus Magnus, 100, 110, 131, 289 381–2 al-Bīrūnī, 65, 73, 73n Arabic culture and learning, 18, 41n, 52n, Albrecht, Michael von, 40n 61, 65–7, 67n, 68–9, 73n, 74, 76, 78, 81–8, Albumasar, 3, 21, 21n, 82, 83n, 84–5, 89, 97, 88n, 89–93, 96–97, 102–4, 104n, 105–6, 102–4, 104n, 105–6, 106n, 108, 108n, 109, 109–10, 115–6, 121, 124, 128, 134, 136–8, 109n, 110–2, 114, 116–20, 123–4, 125n, 126, 144, 146, 246, 250, 260, 269, 325, 333, 335, 128–30, 131n, 134, 137–8, 250, 339n, 407 339, 342, 345, 348, 408 Alcabitius (al-Qabīṣī), 63, 65, 105, 105n, 113, Aragon, 198 128, 146 Aratus, 20n, 22n, 47–8, 48n, 51, 287, 289, alchemy, 11, 41, 254, 259, 263, 283n, 268, 289n, 292, 292n, 294, 294n, 295, 298, 284, 285n, 303, 303n, 304, 305n, 407n 298n, 302, 302n, 317n, 321n Aldana, Cosme de, 177, 178n Argo navis (constellation), 413 Alexander VI, pope, 26, 30, 217 Argoli, 70, 77n, 94, 407 436 index Ariosto, 14 431; and theology, 96, 198; and the Aristotelianism, 3, 10, 15, 40, 74–6, 101, Tridentine Council; 54, 401n; decline of, 102, 120, 128, 132, 136–7, 236, 250, 250n, 52, 54, 58, 99, 143, 150, 152, 176, 188–91; 252, 256–7, 269, 269n, 270, 270n, 271–2, Arab, 29, 82, 85, 89, 91, 124, 128, 134, 146, 274–5, 275n, 278–9, 281–2, 286, 339, 246, 342, 345, 348, 408; Babylonian and 339n, 409, 409n Chaldean, 17, 26, 34, 42n, 43, 73, 73n, armillary sphere, 23, 42, 150–1, 299, 363, 87–8, 101, 144, 238, 339, 430; Christian, 412 96, 100; Egyptian, 3, 17, 90–1, 131, 238, Arnaldus de Villla Nova, 123 256, 339, 430; Greek 17, 36n, 46, 53, 66, Arquato, Antonio, 183–4, 184n 69, 78, 85, 90–2, 137, 144, 146, 147n, 335, Arriaga, Pablo José de, 421, 421n 339–40, 430, 430; Hermetic, 133, 250, Asclepius, 276–8 260; imagery, 27–8, 32, 35, 45, 49, 142, Ashmole, Abraham, 41n 202, 260, 262, 333, 334, 335–45, 337, 338, aspect, 22, 24, 26, 37, 59–61, 90, 95, 106, 120, 341, 344, 347–51, 349–54, 355–63, 356–8, 126–8, 155–6, 226, 238, 240, 245–6, 253, 361–2, 364–6, 367, 368–9, 370–2, 371–4, 257, 267, 317, 329–30, 347, 359, 361, 372, 375, 376, 377, 378–81, 380–90, 384–5, 402, 408, 416n, 427 387–91, 392–3, 394–6, 397–8, 420, 422; Aston, Margaret, 182n, 183n Indian, 42n, 46, 66, 85, 88, 101, 102, astrolabe, 23, 23n, 61, 65–6, 65n, 69, 70n, 338–42; indigenous, 400, 404; Islamic, 71, 150, 152, 156, 177, 290 al-Hassan, a.y., 116, 125, 238; Jewish, 15, 41, 106, 117, 124; 19n, 92n judicial, 12, 18, 48, 57, 73, 122, 127, 148, astrologers, 18, 26–7, 29, 31, 36, 40–1, 54, 155, 159, 203n, 209, 225, 228, 251, 267, 61–4, 68–9, 72–3, 75n, 78, 80–1, 82n, 269, 287, 313–4, 321, 400–3, 405–8, 416, 83–5, 89, 91, 93–9, 102, 104–7, 111, 114–5, 426; opposition to, 143, 146–7, 155, 176, 120–1, 124, 127–8, 131–2, 136–7, 141, 143, 188–91, 207–8, 223, 250–1, 294; popular, 145, 147–50, 151, 152–7, 161–2, 169–77, 93, 97, 144, 167–178, 224; principles of, 179, 181–4, 184n, 185–91, 195–201, 203, 81, 131, 135–6, 147, 398; prophetic, 163, 205–6, 210–1, 213, 215, 217–8, 220–1, 227, 173–5, 177, 179–82, 185–6, 205; Ptolemaic, 230, 246, 256, 265, 287, 290, 294, 296–8, 78–9, 81, 91–3, 95, 100–3, 105, 134 (See 302–3, 308–10, 314, 316, 320–2, 324–5, also astronomy, Ptolemaic); reform 327, 335, 356, 360–1, 370, 400, 402, 404, of, 52, 55, 79, 84, 94, 97, 130, 132n, 138, 409n, 410–1; consulting, 150–3, 197; 149, 198, 239–40, 245, 247, 250, 263, 279, countryside, 172–3; court, 117, 149, 180, 401–2, 409, 409n; taught in universities, 199–201, 203, 343; edicts against, 230–1; 96, 146–8, 148n, 175 in Renaissance Literature, 287, 290–7, astromancy, 225–8 299, 301–4, 306–12, 314–9, 321, 323–31; astronomy, 56n, 66–7, 73, 76–7, 84, 88, 94, papal bulls against, 12–3, 54, 148, 186–8, 101–2, 105, 109, 120, 131–3, 135–7, 139, 146, 199, 226, 226n, 232, 247, 265, 313–4, 328, 149, 152, 168–70, 182, 188, 239–40, 244, 401n; practice, 158–61, 200n, 240 248, 254, 256, 270, 276, 284, 289, 297n, astrology, and aesthetics, 42, 44, 47, 48n; 335, 346, 399–401, 400n, 403–4, 410, and astronomy, 26, 102, 135, 146, 149, 420, 426, 430; no distinction between 239, 276, 335, 420, 430; and books, 52, astrology and, 26, 102, 234; Ptolemaic, 87–8, 89, 153, 161–72, 175, 339, 345, 348, 128, 131–2, 136, 168 359, 397, 406; and Fortuna, 134, 154, Atienza, J.G., 401n 157, 195, 208–13, 213n, 214–5, 265, 303, Augsburg, 342 312, 401; and literature, 19, 69, 146, 196, Augustijn, Cornelis, 202n 287–331; and medicine, 26, 53, 82n, Augustine, St., 54n, 99, 108, 123, 223n, 224n, 128, 130–1, 134, 148, 153, 267, 403–4, 225–7, 367–8 406–7, 414–6, 420, 425–6, 429 (See also Augustus, Roman emperor, 25n, 37, 37n, iatromathematics); and nature, 155, 209, 46n, 72–3 213, 267, 400–1, 403–4, 409, 414, 418, 420, Augustyn, Wolfgang, 56n 422, 425–6; and politics, 29, 193–207, Auhagen, Ulrich, 38n 231–2; and prophecy, 178; and religion, Aurelio di Siena, 174 99, 121, 132; and science, 233–7, 248–50, Avendaño, Fernando de, 421, 421n.