Index

Index

Every effort has been made to include references to all identifiable persons living before or during the long eighteenth century, as well as to often cited twentieth-century critics and commentators, and to provide a selective listing of relevant concepts and keywords. Readers may also wish to consult the endnotes of each essay for more comprehensive information.

A

Académie française, 246

Academy of Architecture, Royal, 244

Acosta, José de, 200, 210

Addison, Joseph, 49

Adorno, Theodor, 3, 10
Dialektik der Aufklärung, 3, 10

Alembert, Jean le Rond d', 82, 88, 102

Almanac, 105, 107, 110, 113–114, 116, 118–119, 125

Altars, 240

America / American, 13–14, 17, 19, 21, 29

American Philosophical Society, 82, 89, 96–97, 100, 101

Anglican Church, 75
Année littéraire, 245

Architecture, 235–253

Architecture, classical, 237, 240–241

Architecture, origins, 235–242, 251

Architecture, Renaissance, 253

Architecture, Revolutionary, 251

Association, 85

Autonomy, 1, 7–8

B

Bacon, Francis, 189–191, 200, 205, 210, 212

Balzac, Honoré de, 261–280
Comédie humaine, 261, 269, 274–275, 279–280
Facino Cane, 266, 273, 275, 279–280
Ferragus, 272, 280
La Cousine Bette, 269, 280
La Peau de chagrin, 263, 265, 271, 274, 278–280
Le Cousin Pons, 274, 279–280
L'Envers de l'histoire contemporaine, 270, 280
Louis Lambert, 264, 266, 279
Théorie de la démarche, 273, 276, 278, 280
Ursule Mirouët, 267, 269, 273, 276, 279–280

Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques, 77, 99

Barthes, Roland, 261, 278

Bauer, Ralph, 205

Bayle, Pierre, 1, 2, 9, 10, 88, 102, 242
Commentaire philosophique, 2, 9
Pensées diverses sur la comète, 1, 9

Beal, Joan, 52
English in Modern Times, 1700–1945, 52

Beauty, "arbitrary" and "positive", 237

Benediction, 48

Benzie, W., 51, 53

Bergosa y Jordán, Antonio, Dr., 174–175, 180–181

Bible, 35, 49, 75–76, 88, 97–98, 102

Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, 253–254

Birmingham, England, 58, 82

Birth, 105–106, 108, 110, 112–122, 125

Blair, John, 75–77, 91, 98–99

Blake, William, 50, 87, 102

Blondel, Jacques-François, 245, 247

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 152, 167
Famous Women, 154, 167

Boerhaave, Hermann, 189, 191, 198, 209, 212

Boffrand, Germain, 245
Book of Common Prayer, 49

Botanical vernacular, 158

Botticelli, Sandro, 154, 167
Primavera, 154

Branch, Lori, 54

Breast, 166

Breasts, 149–151, 156, 160, 163–166

Britain, 13, 15, 18

C

Calendar / Calendars / Calendar Reform, 55, 99

Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge, 189, 205, 209, 211

Carey, Matthew, 79, 100

Castellaños, Francisco, Fr., 174

Cause and effect, 85, 87

Chambre de la Reine, 105, 114, 117–118

Chantreau, Pierre-Nicolas, 57, 91

Charts, 55–102

Chaux [utopian city project], 251

Chronography, 56, 74–75, 97–99

Chronology, 55, 57, 63, 72, 74–75, 85–87, 91–94, 97–99, 101

Church of England, 35, 47, 50

Clergymen, 36, 41, 53

Cochin, Charles-Nicolas, 247

Collecting, 15, 20

Commerce, 5, 7

Common theological understanding, 37

Compilation, 15, 19–20, 24–25

Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de, 59, 189

Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, marquis de, 3, 4, 10
Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain, 3, 10

Confession, 44
Confessions, 128, 144, 146

Conjectural history, 4

Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn, 165, 168

Copernicus, Nicolas, 191, 212

Copyright, 15, 22–26

Cordemoy, Jean-Louis de, 245

Court de Gébelin, Antoine, 239–240, 242
Monde primitif analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne, 239–240, 242

Courtesan, 151, 166–167

Courtesan portraits, 151

Crary, Jonathan, 262, 278

Creed, 54

Critique, 1–3, 6, 8, 11

Culture, 1–3, 5, 7, 10

D

Damiens, Robert-François, 246

Darwin, Erasmus, 93, 96, 158, 160, 163–165, 167
Botanic Garden, The, 158, 163, 167
Loves of the Plants, The, 158, 160, 163, 167
Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen, 8

Derrida, Jacques, 9, 11

Descartes, René, 10

Devotional silence, 47

Dickinson, John, 58, 92

Diderot, Denis, 7, 82, 88, 91, 99...