The Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution

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INDEX Note: Page numbers followed by f or t refer to figures or tables, respectively. 341 academic subjects. See curriculum Accedence Commenc’t Grammar (Milton), 47, 120, 154, 164, 166, 169 Addison, Joseph, 2 Adorno, Theodor, 17 Ad Patrem (Milton), 116–17, 215 Age of Enlightenment, 305n21 Age of Milton, and Scientific Revolution, 1–14 L’Allegro (Milton), 132–40 Allen, Benjamin, 216 Alpers, Paul, 61 Anabaptism, 278 Anatomia Hepatis (Glisson), 47 Animadversions (Milton), 169 antinomianism, 278 Areopagitica (Milton), 113–14, 127, 154 Aristotelianism, 14, 21, 31, 37, 75, 78–79, 143, 167, 191, 194, 237, 242, 291, 306n27 Aristotle, 143, 167, 170–71, 180–81, 197, 235, 294, 306n27 Art of Logic, The (Milton), 154; on educational role of logic, 170; on function of argument, 142; on knowledge, 143; logic defined in, 140; publisher of, 46–47 arts: L’Allegro and, 136–37; education as central to, 20–21; science in relation to, 7–10, 15–19, 24–25, 27, 109, 138–39 Ascham, Roger, 87 astronomy, 193–94 Aubrey, John, 126 Augustine, Saint, 128, 194, 195 authority: hypothesis and, 144; reason as, 76–80, 88–89, 106, 115–16 Bacon, Francis: on cosmography, 185; on curriculum, 162; on grammar, 164–65; as hands-on scientist, 38; on knowledge, 196; as model for scientists, 13–14; on poetry, 200; and Scientific Revolution, 3, 25, 46, 56–57, 63, 115; on scientists as prophets, 74, 75; on sound, 242; on teachers and students, 218, 219f, 220f; and value of science, 20, 25, 34–35, 37, 232 Baconians, 13–14 Bainbridge, John, 39 Barrias, Louis Ernest, 26 Barrow, Isaac, 107, 120, 144, 154–55, 160, 182, 189, 200, 202f, 224, 265–66, 281–82 Barrow, Samuel, 1, 13, 36, 115 Barry, Richard, 42, 333n4 Beale, John, 2, 8, 44 Billingsley, Henry, 185 Blake, William, 257 blindness: Milton’s, 282–84; Samson’s, 280–81 Bodine, Jean, 43 Bohr, Niels, 128 books, 161, 254–56, 287 Boreel, Adam, 43 Bowen, Peter, 138 342 Index Boyle, Robert, 134, 214; contribution of, 13, 35; on education, 218; as hands-on scientist, 38; and medicine, 168; Milton and, 41–42, 44, 46; and natural philosophy, 50, 278; physical constitution of, 67–68, 96; on Sidney, 9; as student, 216, 221; teachers criticized by, 32; and theology, 124, 278; on universal language, 166 Brackley, John, 55, 333n4 Brady, Robert, 168 Brahe, Tycho, 52, 53f Breasted, Barbara, 240 Brennan, William, 163 Brief History of Moscovia, A (Milton), 44, 46, 154 Brinsley, John, 121 Brown, Edward, 257 Browne, Thomas, 21 Bruner, Jerome, 127–29 Bucer, Martin, 272 Buommattei, Benedette, 127 Burke, Edmund, 171 Burnet, Gilbert, 67–68, 74 Burnett, Thomas, 191 Bush, Douglas, 2, 56 Calaber, Quintus, 161 calculus, 181, 182, 188, 196 Calvin, Jean, 272–73 Cambridge University, 38–39, 160, 312n24 Carey, John, 275 carpe diem poems, 151 Casaubon, Isaac, 51 Casti, John, 196 Cavendish, Margaret, 212, 227–28 Celestial Machine, The (Evelyn), 230, 231f Charles I, 228 Charles II, 25 Christopher, Georgia, 139 Christ’s College, Cambridge, 39 Clarke, Timothy, 82, 125, 218–19, 221 class, 125–26, 221–22, 245, 255 Clavis Apocalyptica (Mede), 40 Clerke, Gilbert, 182 Clodius, Frederick, 42 Coiro, Ann, 172–73 Colasterion (Milton), 154 collaboration: in Paradise Regained, 265–67; in Samson Agonistes, 271–72; of scientists, 54–55, 69, 80–84, 91, 101, 265–66, 271–72; of teachers, 80–84, 91, 108 Collins, John, 266 Comenius, Johann Amos, 44 commonplace books, 121–22 Conduit, Catherine, 67, 128 Conway, Lord, 214 Copernicus, 16 cosmography, 185, 187–88 cosmos, 197–98, 203–05 Cowley, Abraham, 25, 32, 57, 63 Cox, Daniel, 2, 297 Cremonini, Cesare, 37, 78–79, 260 curiosities, 256–57 curriculum, 23–24, 113–29; in L’Allegro, 136–40; authors in Miltonic, 161–62; comfort provided by, 119–20; controversies over, 122–23; criticisms of, 118–19; educational tools and, 120–22; effect of on science, 121–29; for England, 153–54; expansion of, 113, 120; Milton and, 116–19, 126–27, 136–40, 153–78, 326n7; in Of Education, 116–17, 126–27, 153–56, 157–60t, 160–78; in Il Penseroso, 136–40; poetry in, 170–73; practical application of, 168–69, 175; and quadrivium, 114, 116, 118, 123, 156, 167, 181; science in, 116–17, 163–64, 167–68; standard, 118; and three philosophies, 114, 118; and trivium, 114, 118, 123, 163, 165, 167, 169; variety in, 154–55 dance, 245–46 Daniel (biblical figure), 73–74, 88–89, 260–61 Darwin, Charles, 9...