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Subject Index creation, 71–72, 80, 114 creator, 2, 23, 66, 118, 124, 128 curiosity, 20–22, 54–55, 113 definition, 1, 6, 31, 123 Deism, 4, 64, 65, 71, 74 demiurge, 58, 61, 64, 71, 80, 113, 117, 120 economy, 7–8, 19–20, 69, 83, 84–85, 104, 120 efficient cause, 10, 126 Enlightenment, the, 11, 25, 27, 44, 47–48, 64, 113 evidence, 8–9, 19, 83–84, 94 experiment, 18, 27, 124 explosive metaphorics, 122–26 final cause, 102, 126 force. See power formal cause, 10, 126 freedom, 58–59, 60–61 game, 89, 91–92, 96 geocentrism, 101–4, 106–7, 109–10, 112–16 aesthetics, 68, 97–98, 115 allegory, 16–17, 77–78, 126 anthropocentrism, 29, 32, 83, 100–104, 106–7, 113, 127 art, 14, 23, 39, 65, 97–98 astronomy, 20, 64–68, 79, 88, 99–101, 107, 109– 10, 118–20, 128–29 Averroism, 45 background metaphorics, 10, 62–63, 79, 119, 129 battle metaphor, 24–25 book metaphor, 16, 70–72, 75–76 cave, 21, 28, 78–80 circle, 110–11, 116–32 clockwork metaphor, 16, 64–65, 69, 71–74 collective, 59–61 concept, 1–2, 4–5, 31, 41, 81, 99, 115, 123 cosmogony, 3, 16, 52, 55, 80, 82, 85, 117 cosmos, 2–3, 15–16, 19, 28, 55–56, 63–65, 79– 80, 84, 100–107, 115–20, 123 court metaphor, 17–18, 21, 27–29 152 Subject Index geometry, 20, 90, 111, 121, 123, 129 gnosticism, 20, 80 God, 4, 8, 16, 18, 20, 24, 32–34, 36, 40–42, 49, 56, 59, 64–66, 71–73, 82, 93–94, 96–97, 123– 26, 128, 131–32 happiness, 7–8, 18–19, 33, 45, 49–50, 92 hermeticism, 124 history, 1–3, 5, 14, 48, 77–78 humanism, 45–46, 60, 131 hypothesis, 29, 67–70, 93–94, 101, 128–29 idea, 4, 12, 59, 113, 117–19 imagination, 2, 4, 14, 22, 44, 48, 55 infinity, 55, 59, 96, 117–18, 123–26 labor, 21–22, 24–26, 32–33, 49, 54, 58, 60–61, 72, 80, 103 language, 1–4, 14, 46, 62–63 law, 66 legal metaphorics, 32 light metaphor, 7, 9, 34–35, 47 logos, 2–4, 19, 77–79, 81 machine, 4, 63–70 materialism, 10, 64, 106 mathematics, 23, 79, 116, 123–24 mechanism, 58–59, 63–70, 73, 75, 129–30 method, 1, 13–14, 20–21, 24, 26, 35, 54, 59–60, 75, 123, 129 microcosm, 24, 72–73, 102 microscope, 22, 29 might. See power miracle, 53, 55, 95 model, 4, 7, 10, 23, 64–67, 79–80, 89, 99–101, 126 moralists, French, 73, 114 mountain metaphor, 30 mover, unmoved, 23, 72, 105–6, 110, 112, 120–23, 128 myth, 3, 77–81, 119 nature, 11, 21, 26–29, 32, 34, 43, 52–56, 58, 65, 68–73, 76, 104, 116, 130, 132 Neoplatonism, 28, 79–80, 87, 121, 123 neo-Stoicism, 32, 65, 103 nominalism, 32, 70–71 novelty, 54–55 organism, 58–59, 63–64, 65–69, 120 patristics, 3, 9, 19, 71, 80, 83, 102, 106 physics, 19, 128 play. See game poet, 2, 9, 45–46, 48 power, 8–13, 17–18, 20–21, 28–29, 32, 36–39, 71, 82, 85–86, 109 probability, 21, 81–98 property, 32, 66 revelation, 33, 35, 45, 113 rhetoric, 2–3, 13, 37–39, 40, 48, 82–84, 86 Scholasticism, 6, 10, 20, 23, 126, 128 ship metaphor, 17 Skepticism, 19, 27–28, 35–36, 44, 48, 82–83, 86–87 Sophistry, 3, 38, 78–79 soul, 10, 64–65, 121–23, 127 sovereignty, 21, 29, 32, 66, 71 sphere, 95, 103, 116–19, 123, 127–28, 131–32 stamp metaphorics, 9 state, 4, 16, 130 Stoicism, 1, 8–9, 16, 19, 32–34, 63–66, 71, 78, 80, 83, 86, 88, 102–6, 109, 112, 116, 118–20, 131–32 symbol, 4, 115–17, 122 technology, 21, 23–24, 29, 55, 65, 67 teleology, 8, 12, 24, 29, 32, 50, 56, 68–69, 71, 76, 83, 85, 91, 101–4, 113, 116, 127 telescope, 22, 29 terra incognita, 52–54, 56–57 theology, 7–8, 18–19, 23, 29, 32, 55, 59, 63–65, 73–74, 88, 91, 103, 122–23, 126, 130–31 theory, 18–19, 23, 56, 58, 104, 116, 118–19, 122, 128 travel metaphor. See voyage metaphor truth, 3, 6–51, 53, 70, 78–79, 81–100...