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Index of Names
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[Roman figures refer to the chapters, Arabic to the articles.]

Posidonius (135 B.C.?–51 B.C.?), ii. 45, 47

Pouillet (1791–1868), xiii. 307, 319

Pound, x. 206, 216

Prévost (1751–1839), xii. 265

Pritchard (1808–1893), xiii. 278 n, 279, 316

Ptolemy, Claudius (fl. 140 A.D.), ii. 25, 27, 32, 37, 46–52, 53, 54; iii. 55, 57, 59–63, 68; iv. 70, 76, 80, 83–87, 89, 91; v. 94, 105; vi. 121, 129, 134; vii. 145; viii. 161; ix. 194; x. 205; xi. 236

Ptolemy Philadelphus, ii. 31

Purbach (1423–1461), iii. 68; iv. 71

Pythagoras (6th cent. B.C.), i. 11, 14; ii. 23, 28, 47, 51, 54

Recorde (1510–1558), v. 95

Regiomontanus (1436–1476), iii. 68, 69; iv. 70, 71; v. 97, 110

Reimarus. See Bär

Reinhold (1511–1553), v. 93–96; vii. 139

Reymers. See Bär

Rheticus (1514–1576), iv. 73, 74; v. 93, 94, 96

Ricardo, ii. 47 n

Riccioli (1598–1671), viii. 153

Richer (?–1696), viii. 161; ix. 180, 187; x. 199, 221

Rigaud, x. 206 n

Roemer (1644–1710), viii. 162; x. 198, 210, 216, 220, 225; xiii. 283

Rosse (1800–1867), xiii. 310, 317

Rothmann (fl. 1580), v. 97, 98, 106

Rudolph II. (the Emperor), v. 106–108; vii. 138, 142, 143

Sabine (1788–1883), xiii. 298

Sacrobosco (?–1256?), iii. 67, 68

St. Pierre, x. 197

Savary (1797–1841), xiii. 309

Scheiner (1575–1650), vi. 124, 125; vii. 138; viii. 153; xii. 268

Schiaparelli, xiii. 297

Schomberg, iv. 73

Schoner, iv. 74

Schönfeld (1828–1891), xiii. 280

Schroeter (1745–1816), xii. 267, 271

Schwabe (1789–1875), xiii. 298

Secchi (1818–1878), xiii. 311, 312

See, xiii. 320

Seleucus (2nd cent. B.C.), ii. 24

Shakespeare, vi. 113

Sharp (1651–1742), x. 198

Slusius, ix. 169

Smith, xii. 251

Snell (1591–1626), viii. 159; ix. 173

Sosigenes (fl. 45 B.C.), ii. 21

South (1785–1867), xiii. 306

Struve, F. G. W. (1793–1864), xiii. 279, 309

Struve, O., xiii. 283 n

Svanberg (1771–1851), x. 221

Sylvester II. See Gerbert

Tabit ben Korra (836–901), iii. 56, 58, 68; iv. 84

Tamerlane, iii. 63

Tannery, ii. 36 n

Thales (640 B.C.?–546 B.C.?), ii. 23; iii. 55

Theon (fl. 365 A.D.), ii. 53

Theophrastus, ii. 24

Theophylactus, iv. 72

Thomson, T., x. 208 n

Thomson, William. See Kelvin