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A Acharius, Erik, 196 action principles, 101 Adams, George, 140, 153 aerodynamics, 358 Aeschnogomphus, 185 $$ther, 65 Agricola, Georgius, De Re Metallica, 303 airflow, analysis of, 357–58 alchemists, 39, 91, 124 Alecto Historical Editions, 191 algebra: abstract, 356 Boolean, 349, 350–51 and Internet communications, 356 linear, 356 Ammann, Othmar, 246 Ancient Monuments Protection Act (1882), 14 Andromeda, 326, 327 apocalypse: climate change and, 408, 417, 418–19 in fiction, 406–12, 415–17 human longing for, 412–15 Hyde Park speakers on, 413 impact events, 407 nuclear, 408, 408 personal survival in, 420–23 Apollo space programme, 271 Arbuthnot, John, 48 archaeology, 5, 197 Archaeopteryx, 186–88, 187, 191, 192, 201 Argentinean ant, 282, 283 Aristotelian worldview, 90, 111, 114, 119, 298 Aristotle, 85, 469 empiricism of, 114, 119, 121, 298 and laws of syllogism, 115 on motion, 110, 117, 127 Posterior Analytics, 115 on space and time, 64, 71 view of the cosmos, 109 “Ark, The,”
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