Index
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Affective responses to nature –, , –
Albertus Magnus –, –
Allingham, William
Anselm of Canterbury
Antognazza, Maria Rosa –
Aquinas, Thomas see Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle –, –
On causality within nature –
On deduction (sullogismos) –
On the empirical apprehension of particulars –
On the eternity of the world –
On the nature of explanation –
On induction (epagōgē) –
On observational respectfulness –
On the perfection of the celestial realm , –,
On sublunary world –
On theōria –
On uninhabitability of the ‘torrid zone’
Aristotelian natural philosophy in Middle Ages –
Attentiveness towards Nature , –
Avicenna
Bacon, Francis –, –
On the empirical method –
On ‘Idols of the Mind’ , –
Banville, John
Beauty of nature –
Bede ,
Berlin, Isaiah –
Bhaskar, Roy –
bios theōretikos
Blake, William –,
Boyle, Robert –, –
Boyle Lectures (1692–1732) –
Browne, Sir Thomas –
Case, John –
Castoriades, Cornelius
Chenu, M. D.
Chinese forms of natural philosophy –, –, –
Chu Tsi –
Civil War, English, influence of –, –, –
‘Clockwork Universe’, as misrepresentation of Newton’s cosmology –
Confucianism and natural philosophy –
Copernicanism and the ‘privileged status’ of humanity
Copernicus, Nicolaus –
Cottingham, John –
Darwin, Charles –
And Baconian inductive tradition of natural philosophy
de Sebonde, Raymond
Defoe, Daniel
Derham, William –
DeSalvo, Louise –
Dirac, Paul
Disciplinary ‘eyes’ –
Disciplinary imaginary, as way of framing natural philosophy –
Disciplines, intellectual
Emergence of –, –, –
Fragmentation of –, –, –
Interaction between –, –, , –
Mapping of disciplinary territories –
Donne, John
Duhem, Pierre
Eddington, Arthur
Einstein, Albert –, –
Elson, Rebecca –
Enlightenment interpretations of Newton –
‘experimental science’, origins of term –
Flamsteed, John
Gadamer, Hans-Georg –,
Galileo Galilei –
On the mathematization of nature –,
On the telescopic extension of human vision –
Gaukroger, Stephen , –, , ,
Gettier, Edmund –
God’s ‘Two Books’ , , , –
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von –
Gould, Stephen Jay –,
Gresham College, London , –
Hadot, Pierre
Halevi, Judah ben Samuel
Harmony, as major theme in natural philosophy –, –, , , –, , –, ,
Herbert, George
Herschel, John –
Herschel, William
Hildegard of Bingen –
Hooke, Robert ,
Hopkins, Gerard Manley –, –
Hugh of St Victor –
Hume, David –, , , –
Hunt, Robert –
Huxley, Thomas H. –, –, –
Imaginaries, as ways of seeing the world –
Interdisciplinarity –, –,
John of Rupescissa –
Keats, John –
Kepler, Johann –, , –, ,
On harmony in natural philosophy –
On the laws of planetary motions –
On the structure of snowflakes
On theology and natural philosophy –
Kuhn, Thomas –
Ladyman, James
Latitudinarianism and English natural philosophy –
Lennon, Kathleen –
Lewis, C. S. –, –,
Llosa, Mario Vargas –
Locke, John –
Lutheran forms of natural philosophy –,
Lyell, Charles
Magic –
Martianus Capella
Maxwell, James Clerk –
Maxwell, Nicholas ,
McGilchrist, Iain –, –
McLeish, Tom
Melanchthon, Philip –,
Midgley, Mary –, ,
Miller, Henry
Minkowski, Hermann
Murdoch, Iris –,
Natural Philosophy
As actor’s category
As antidote to religious dogmatism –, –, –
Decline of, in nineteenth century , –
Difficulties in retrieving category –
As disciplinary imaginary –
In early Middle Ages –
As an empirical discipline –
‘experimental’ vs ‘speculative’ forms of ,
As evolving category –
Harmony, as major theme of –, –, , , –, , –, ,
As interdisciplinary undertaking –, ,
In Islamic Spain ,
And magic –
And medieval alchemy –
In medieval Judaism
And Natural Law ,
And Natural Science –, , –, , , –, –, –, –,
Neo-Confucian approaches –
In relation to Scientism –, –
‘speculative’ vs ‘experimental’ forms of ,
Natural Sciences –, , –, , , –, –, –, –,
Natural Theology , , , –,
‘Naturalistic Science’ vs ‘Theistic Science’ –
Naturphilosophie (Schelling) –, –
Neo-Confucian approaches to natural philosophy –
Newton, Isaac , –, ,
Blake’s criticism of –
‘Clockwork Universe’, as misrepresentation of Newton’s cosmology –
Enlightenment interpretations of –
On experimental natural philosophy –
On explaining Kepler’s orbital rules
On universal gravitation –
Newtonianism, popular –, –
Nussbaum, Martha
Objectivity as epistemological virtue –, –
Observational respectfulness –
Oppenheim, Peter
Paley, William ,
Paradigm shifts –
Paris, University of –
Past, retrieval of –
Peirce, Charles S. ,
Philosopher’s Stone
Physico-theology , –, , –
Place vs. Space –
Plato –, –,
Popper, Karl, on ‘Three Worlds’ –,
‘Priest in the Temple of Nature’ motif ,
Principia Mathematica (Newton) , –, –,
Ptolemy’s model of the solar system , –
Putnam, Hilary
Ray, John –
Regiomontanus, Johannes
Respectfulness towards Nature –
Retrieval of the past –
Robert of Chester
Rolston, Holmes –
Romanticism –
Reaction against Newtonianism –, –
Rorty, Richard
Rosenberg, Alex –
Royal Society of London –, –, –
Ruskin, John , –,
‘Saving the phenomena’
Sciences, Natural –, , –, , , –, –, –, –,
Scientism –, –
‘Scientist’, origins of term –
Snow, C. P.
Space vs. Place –
Stenmark, Mikael
Subjectivity and the natural world –
Sublunary world, in Aristotelian natural philosophy –
Taylor, Charles –, ,
Telescopes, and the extension of human vision –
‘Theistic Science’ vs ‘Naturalistic Science’ –
Theōria –
In Aristotle –, –
Classical Greek cultural context of –,
And early Christian theology
As contemplation , –, , –, –, –
And eudaimonia –
In Gadamer –
In Plato –
Role of theōros
As a ‘sacred beholding’ –
Thomas Aquinas –
‘Three Worlds’ (Karl Popper) –,
tian-ren-he-yi (the harmony of heaven and humanity) –, –, –
Traherne, Thomas
‘Two Books’ metaphor , , , –
Tycho Brahe , –
University of Paris –
van Fraassen, Bas
Vincenzo Galilei –
Weber, Max
Weinberg, Steve –, , –
Whewell, William –, –, –,
Wilkins, John , –
William of Auvergne –
Wilson, Edward O. , –, , –
Wonder, as stimulus to engagement with nature , , –
Wordsworth, William –