Albert le Grand, 89 n

Aristote, 120 n, 123 n

Averroès, 48 n

Avicenne, 48 n

Auzout, Adrien, 18 n

Bacon, Francis, 8, 17, 36

Bartholin, Caspar, 7, 12, 78 n

Bartholin, Thomas, 7, 13, 18 n, 39 n, 40, 43, 45 n, 48 n, 49 n, 78 n, 79 n, 80 n, 82 n, 83 n, 85 n, 87 n, 89 n, 94 n, 101 n, 107 n, 110 n, 114 n, 119 n, 125 n, 126 n

Bauhin, Gaspard, 79 n, 105

Baudelot de Dairval, Charles-César, 9 n

Bayle, François, 68 n

Bernier, François, 17 n

Bernoulli, Johann, 10

Bils, Ludovic, 8, 26, 113, 114

Blasius [Blaes, Georges], 8

Borch, Ole, 7

Borel, Pierre, 8

Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, 9, 37 n

Bourdelot, Pierre, 17, 18 n

Boyle, Robert, 24 n, 25 n

Casserius[Casserio], Julius, 105

Chapelain, Jean, 15, 16, 17 n, 18 n, 19 n

Christian V du Danemark, 11

Clerselier, Claude, 12, 13, 18 n, 69, 127 n

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 75 n

Côme III de Médicis, 11

Cordemoy, Géraud de, 18 n

Croone, William, 9

Cureau de la Chambre, Marin, 76

D’Alembert, Jean le Rond, 58, 85 n

De Graaf, Régnier, 8, 15 n, 18 n, 78 n

Denis, Jean, 18 n

Descartes, René, 8, 12, 14, 17, 18-20, 25 n, 31 n, 34, 36, 37-49, 53, 55, 59, 64-71, 79 n, 81 n, 85 n, 92-97, 99-102, 111 n 123 n, 127-128

Diderot, Denis, 58, 85 n

Dodart, Denis, 18 n

Du Laurens, André, 48 n

Duns Scot, Jean, 89 n

Duverney, Joseph-Guichard, 10, 47 n

Eilersen [Hilarius], Jorgen, 7

Ernest-Auguste de Brunswick, 12

Fallope, Gabriel, 87 n

Ferdinand II de Médicis, 10

Fernel, Jean, 46 n, 61 n

Foucher, Simon, 11

Galien,46, 48 n, 56 n, 79 n, 87 n, 89, 94 n, 107 n, 108 n, 120 n, 123 n

Galilée, Galileo, 8

Gassendi, Pierre, 17, 18 n, 20 n

Graindorge, André, 16, 18 n

Haller, Albrecht von, 22 n, 105 n

Harvey, William, 26, 114 n, 123 n

Hogelande, Cornelius van, 40 n, 94 n

Hooke, Robert, 24 n, 25 n

Huet, Pierre-Daniel, 16 n, 19 n

Huygens, Christiaan, 15

Innocent XI, 11

Jean-Frédéric de Brunswick, 12

Kerckring, Theodor, 8

Kircher, Athanasius, 8

La Forge, Louis de, 9, 13, 19, 49 n, 68, 69 n, 78 n, 93 n, 98 n, 100 n, 101 n, 127 n

La Mothe Le Vayer, François de, 18 n

Le Gallois, Pierre, 18 n

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 11-12, 20-21, 40, 44, 54 n

Le Pailleur, Jacques, 18 n

Léopold de Médicis, 15 n

Lister, Martin, 9 n, 10

Louis XIV, 75 n

Lucrèce, 55 n

Magalotti, Lorenzo, 11, 75

Malebranche, Nicolas, 45 n

Malpighi, Marcello, 11, 33, 54 n, 55 n, 57, 59

Mariotte, Edme, 18 n

Martel, Thomas, 18 n

Mazarin, Jules, 75 n

Meyssonnier, Lazare, 40 n, 94 n

Montaigne, Michel de, 79 n

Montmor, Henri Louis Habert, 17, 18 n

Nicaise, Claude, 20 n

Ninville, Robert de, 75, 77

Oldenburg, Henry, 17 n

Paré, Ambroise, 48, 89 n

Pascal, Blaise, 9 n, 18 n, 25, 26

Paulli, Simon, 7, 114 n

Pecquet, Jean, 8, 85 n, 113

Perrault, Claude, 61 n

Petit, Pierre, 18 n

Ray, John, 9

Redi, Francesco, 11

Regius, Henricus, 8, 40 n, 94 n

Riolan, Jean (le fils), 48 n, 81 n, 83 n, 107 n, 112 n, 125 n

Roberval, Gilles Personne de, 9 n

Rohault, Jacques, 9 n, 18 n

Saporta, Pierre, 17 n

Schuyl, Florentius, 12, 13, 19 n, 40, 101 n

Sénèque, 72

Sennert, Daniel, 8

Severino, Marco Aurelio, 55-56, 59

Spinoza, Benedictus, 8, 44-45, 53

Sprat, Thomas, 24 n, 25 n, 120 n

Sylvius, Franciscus [de la Boe, Franz], 8, 78, 84 n, 94, 97, 99 n, 105, 108 n, 109, 119 n

Swammerdam, Jan, 8, 11, 75 n, 78 n

Thévenot, Melchisédec, 9, 11 n, 15-18, 22, 29 n, 75, 78 n

Thomas d’Aquin, 89 n

Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried Walther von, 11

Van Horne, Johan, 8

Varolius [Varole], Constantius, 79 n, 83, 87 n, 104, 122

Vésale, André, 87 n, 89 n , 94, 105

Viviani, Vincenzo, 11

Volder, Burchard de, 78 n

Willis, Thomas, 12, 20, 21 n, 27, 29 n, 33, 34, 37 n, 49, 51-52, 55, 63 n, 79 n, 80 n, 84 n, 85 n, 86 n, 87 n, 90, 91 n, 103-105, 107 n, 110 n, 117 n, 122, 123 n, 124 n, 126 n, 136, 138

Winslow, Jacob-Benignus, 21, 31 n, 80 n, 84 n, 88 n, 91 n, 97 n, 99 n, 104 n, 107 n, 108 n, 109 n, 119, 123 n