Reference Index

• Abbé Catalan [21]
• Archimedes [1]
• Aristotle [1], [7], [13], [16]
• Bellerophon [pref]
• Bernoulli, Johann I [5], [18], [21]
• Blondel, François [19]
• Bouguer, Pierre [15], [16]
• Boyle, Robert [8], [9]
• Cassini, Jean-Dominique [15]
• Cassini, Jacques [15]
• Cheselden [pref]
• Clarke, Samuel [pref], [1], [2], [5], [6]
• Coste, Pierre [5]
• Crousaz, Jean-Pierre [6], [12]
• d’Alembert, Jean-Baptiste le Rond [1], [4]
• de Bessy, Bernard Frenicle [14], [16]
• de Roberval, Gilles Personne [16]
• Democritus [5]
• Derham, William [14]
• des Hayes, Jacques [18]
• Desaguliers, John Theophilus [14], [21]
• Descartes, René [pref], [1], [2], [3], [4], [7], [8], [11], [21]
• Diderot, Denis [1], [4]
• du Hamel, Jean Baptiste [14], [16]
• Eames, John [21]
• Euclid [17]
• Fermat, Pierre [18]
• Flamsteed, John [16]
• Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de [11]
• Frederick II [pref]
• Galilei, Galileo [pref], [4], [11], [13], [14], [15], [17], [18]
• Gassendi, Pierre [5], [7]
• Grégoire de Saint Vincent [9]
• Grimaldo, Francesco Maria [13]
• Halley, Edmond [18]
• Hartsoeker, Nicolaas [9], [10]
• Hermann, Jacob [21]
• Hooke, Robert [pref]
• Huygens, Christiaan [pref], [4], [6], [14], [15], [17], [18]
• Jurin, James [21]
• Keill, James [16]
• Keill, John [5], [9], [16]
• Kepler, Johannes [pref], [4], [8], [15], [16]
• König, Johann Samuel [pref]
• Kopernikus, Nikolaus [4]
• Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm [pref], [1], [2], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [10], [11], [13], [18], [21]
• Leucippus [5]
• Locke, John [2], [3], [4], [5], [10]
• Lucretius [13]
• Mairan, Jean Jacques d’Ortous de [18], [21]
• Malebranche, Nicolas [2], [8], [10]
• Mandeville, Bernard [1]
• Mariotte, Edme [14]
• Maupertuis, Pierre Louis [15], [16]
• McLaurin, Colin [21]
• Mersenne, Marin [18]
• Molyneux, William [10]
• Muschenbrock, Peter [12]
• Newton, Isaac [pref], [4], [5], [6], [8], [10], [11], [12], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19]
• Papin, Denis [21]
• Pascal, Blaise [18]
• Pemperton, Henry [21]
• Picard, Jean [15]
• Pitot, Henri [14]
• Plato [1]
• Pope, Alexander [10]
• Riccioli, Giovanni Battista [13]
• Richer, Jean [18]
• Rohault, Jacques [pref]
• ‘s Gravesande, Willem Jacob [4], [21]
• Snell, Willebrord van Roijen [15]
• Spinoza, Baruch de [3]
• Thieriot, Nicolas Claude [pref]
• Torricelli, Evangelista [18]
• Truchet, Jean (Father Sébastien) [13]
• Varignon, Pierre [17]
• Voltaire [pref], [2], [10]
• Wallis, John [8], [18]
• Wolff, Christian [pref], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [7], [9]
• Wren, Christopher [18]
• Zeno [9]