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Index

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AAS.
See
American Astronomical Society

Abbot, George

Ackroyd, Peter

The Advancement of Learning
(Bacon)

Aeneid
(Virgil)

afterlife

Alae seu scalae mathematicae
(Digges, T.)

The Alchemist
(Jonson)

alchemy

Aldebaran (star)

alewives

Alfonso X (king of León)

algebra

allegory

All's Well That Ends Well
(Shakespeare, W.)

astrology in

medicine in

passages from

planetary movement in

Almagest
(Ptolemy)

almanacs

The Ambassadors
(Holbein the Younger)

American Astronomical Society (AAS)

Amleth (fictional prince)

anamorphosis

An Anatomy of the World
(Donne)

Andrews, John

Anger, Jane

animistic worldview

anti-Stratfordians.
See also
authorship question

Antony and Cleopatra
(Shakespeare, W.)

book of nature in

first scene of

magic in

perspectives in

soothsayer's line from

stars in

apothecaries

Aquilecchia, Giovanni

Archer, Jayne

Aristarchus of Samos

Aristotle

influence of

arithmetic

armillary spheres

Artis analyticae praxis
(Harriot)

As You Like It
(Shakespeare, W.)

atomism in

clocks and timekeeping in

influences on

school in

Asimov, Isaac

The Assayer
(Galileo)

Astraea (star maiden)

astrolabes

astrology

decline of

Astronomia Nova
(Kepler)

Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata
(Brahe)

astronomical software

astronomy.
See also specific individuals

education in

references to

research in

atheism

atomism and

history of

Atlas (Greek deity)

Atlas of the Principal Cities of the World

atomism

atheism and

Lucretius and

authorship question

automata

Bacon, Francis

The Advancement of Learning

The Great Instauration

life and career of

The New Atlantis

Baer, Nicholai Reymers (Ursus)

Baines, Richard

Baker, Brian

Baker, Humphrey

Bakewell, Sarah

Ball, Philip

ballad sheets

barbers

Bate, Jonathan

on
Cymbeline

on physicians

on prostitution

on religion

on villains

BBC

bear stage direction, in
The Winter's Tale

Beard, Thomas

Becket, Thomas

The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion
(Lerner)

Bell, Millicent

Belleforest, François de

Bertram, Benjamin

Bethlehem Hospital

Bevington, David

Bible.
See also specific books

references to

scenes and stories from

versions of

big bang (cosmology)

bile.
See
black bile; yellow bile

bishop of Paris

Bishop's Bible

black bile

Blackfriars Theatre

Blagrave, John

blood

bloodletting

Bloom, Harold

Blount, Edward

Blythe House

Boccaccio, Giovanni

Bodin, Jean

Book of Common Prayer

Book of Joshua

“book of nature”

books and publishing

Boorstin, Daniel

Borough, William

Boswell, William

Bourne, William

Boyle, Robert

Bradley, A. C.

Brahe, Tycho.
See also
Tychonic system; Tycho's star

Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata

comet of 1577 and

comet of 1585 and

De Nova Stella

death of

deformity of

engraving of

Epistolae

on Hven island

influence of

Kepler and

life and career of

relatives of

solar system model

Braunmuller, A. R.

breeched

A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
(Harriot)

Brigden, Susan

Briggs, Henry

Brown, Agnes

Brown, Douglas

Bruno, Giordano

Candelaio

La cena de le ceneri

De innumerabilibus, immenso, et infi gurabili

De triplici minimo

on infinite space

On the Infinite Universe and Worlds

life and career of

at Oxford

possible connection to Shakespeare

religion and

statue of

Bryson, Bill

Buckley, George

Burbage, Richard

Burns, William

Butler, Martin

Byard, Margaret

Caesar, Julius, murder of

Calvin, John

Cambridge University

Camden, William

Campbell, Gordon

Candelaio
(Bruno)

cannabis

Capella (star)

Cardano, Girolamo

Cartwright, John

Cary, Elizabeth

Case, John

Cassini, Giovanni

Cassiopeia

The Castle of Knowledge
(Recorde)

Catholicism

CBC Radio's
Ideas

Cecil, William

celestial globe

La cena de le ceneri
(Bruno)

Chancellor, Richard

Chandos portrait

Chapman, Allan

Charles I (king of England)

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Cheapside

Chelmsford witches

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