INDICE DEI NOMI

A.D.Aczel,

Adamo, 186n

Th.W.Adorno, 154

Agostino di Tagaste, 27, 45-46, 83, 130, 162, 242, 244

al Khuwarizmi, 68

Alberto Magno, 157

A.Albrecht, 187n

D.R. Altschuler,

Anassagora, 231

Anassimandro, 18, 230, 235

Anassimene, 18,

Anselmo d’Aosta, 51, 154

Apollonio di Perge, 67

Arabi, 65, 68

Archimede, 67

Archita di Taranto, 67

Aristotele, 29, 38, 69, 74, 80, 119, 121, 140, 174, 192, 194, 223, 231, 248, 284,

W.R. Ashby, 211

A.Aspect, 182

R.Avenarius, 141

Avicenna, 157

F.Bacone, 122, 151, 284

H.C. von Baeyer, 5n, 17n, 38, 261,

J.D.Barrow, 11, 22-23, 64, 74-76, 85, 102, 167, 168-170, 172, 222-223, 234, 279, 287-288

Baudhayana, 66

G.Bachelard, 177-178,

F.Bazzani, 31

J.Bell, 182

H.Bergson, 31, 114

G.Berkeley, 51, 88, 107, 123, 130, 141, 248

C.Bernard, 114

C.S. Bertuglia, 264-265,

Boezio Severino, 84

G. e I. Bogdanov, 40

D.Bohm, 53, 73, 140, 142-144, 180, 182,

J.Böhme, 121

N. Bohr, 38, 181, 286-287,

L.Boltzmann, 17, 117, 175, 257, 260, 261

B.Bolzano, 132, 133

E.Boncinelli, 22n, 224-225,

H.Bondi, 169, 274

G.Boniolo, 237n

J.L. Borges, 207

M. Born, 176, 177, 220-221, 252,

C.Boyer, 59, 61, 62, 65n, 68,

F.H. Bradley, 269

T.Brahe, 278

F.Brentano, 157

G.Bruno, 74

G.Buridano, 119

I.Calvino, 291

Cambise, 80

G.Cantor, 86, 92

F.Capra, 37, 38, 117, 281,

A.Campiglio, 62n, 65n,

G. Careri, 257-258

R.Carnap, 178-179, 248

B.Carter, 167, 169

H.Casimir, 229

E.Cassirer, 177

E.Castellani, 54, 206, 240,

C.Cellucci,

G.Chaitin, 263, 265

J.P. Changeux,

G.Cheverghese, 63n

R.J.E. Clausius, 259n, 261

G.Cheverghese Joseph,

P.S.Churchland, 22n

N.Copernico, 122, 125, 167

Costantino imperatore, 78

B.Croce, 110

P.Curie, 240

A.Damasio, 22n

Dante Alighieri, 83

Dario, 80

Ch.Darwin, 113, 126, 166,

D.Davidson, 22n

P.Davies, 73,

L. De Broglie, 73, 118n, 181,

J.W.R. Dedekind, 92

Democrito, 25-26,

D.Dennett, 18n

R.Descartes, 18, 26, 27, 32, 33, 46, 70, 92, 123, 130, 138, 151,153, 154, 171, 177, 278, 284, 292

D.Deutsch, 140, 144-149

K.Devlin, 61, 62n, 65n, 94-100, 102

R.Dicke, 167

Th.Digges, 274

P.A.M. Dirac, 167, 181, 241

M. Dorato, 278-279

H.Driesch, 114

P.Duhem, 19, 117, 118-120, 123, 131, 133, 135

F.Dyson, 12-13, 194,

A.S. Eddington, 167

A.Einstein, 16, 21, 33, 73, 101, 104, 107, 122, 125, 137, 142, 177, 180, 181, 182, 203, 229, 271, 286, 289

Epicuro, 26n, 231,

Eraclito, 10, 269

Esiodo, 230, 256

Euclide, 68, 70, 79, 174

Eudemo di Rodi, 66,

V.Eugeni, 62n, 65n,

Eulero, 104, 105

Eva, 186n

H.Everett, 147

G.Farmelo, 40-41, 104,

Th. Fechner, 141

E.Fermi, 110

P.Feyerabend, 19, 119, 123, 130, 133-137,

R.Feynman, 17, 22, 74, 105, 137, 176, 205, 252, 268, 274,

L.Fibonacci, 67, 93

J.G.Fichte, 51-52,

M.Ficino, 74

J.Flynn, 288

K.W.Ford, 191, 193, 197, 233, 270,

F.L.G. Frege, 59, 86, 92, 93

S.Freud, 23n

H.Fritzsch, 233

Galileo Galilei, 57, 58, 104, 119, 121, 130, 135-136, 138, 152

G.Gamow, 111

M.Gasperini, 48, 199,

C.F.Gauss, 252

M.Gazalé,

M.Gell-Mann, 9, 18, 44, 116, 206-207, 252, 262, 263, 279-280, 288

G.Gentile, 110

Gesù Cristo, 78, 155, 174

G.C.Ghirardi, 193,

Giustiniano imperatore, 68

P.Greco,

B.Greene, 186, 199-200,

J.Gribbin, 202,

H.Guerlac, 121

J.Guitton, 40

A.Guth, 187

M.Hack, 203n, 219n,

E.H. Haeckel, 113-114,

J.B.S. Haldane, 234

W.R. Hamilton, 240

S.Hawking, 109, 150, 171-172, 258, 261-262, 272-273,

G.F.Hegel, 26-27, 30, 37, 46-47, 52, 69, 70, 110, 130, 177, 218-219, 269

M.Heidegger, 16n, 18, 48, 153-154, 156, 291

J.Heidmann, 229,

W.Heisenberg, 16, 143, 176, 179-180, 181, 240-241, 244-245, 256, 268, 280,

H.L. Helmholtz, 240

C.A. Helvétius, 251

R.Hersh, 61, 83n, 85-88,

P.W.Higgs, 197

D.Hilbert, 92, 177

Th. Hobbes, 251

P.Th.d’Holbach, 251

J.Horgan, 142

M.Horkheimer, 154

A.Hoyle, 169

D.Hume, 18, 33, 107, 122, 123, 130, 135, 221

E.Husserl, 48, 58, 71, 88, 110,

L.Infeld, 203n

Isabella di Castiglia, 65

Isocrate, 79

C.G. Jacobi, 240

S.L. Jaki, 118n

W.James, 18

J.Jeans, 73,

M.Kaku, 185n, 214, 217, 281n

G. Kane, 198, 220,

I.Kant, 13, 18, 30, 31, 51, 52, 130, 150, 153, 164, 208, 218, 268, 271, 284

Keplero, 57, 120, 132, 133, 278

W.C. e M. Kneale, 60n, 69,

A.Kojève, 48

A.Kolmogorov, 263, 265

A.Koyré, 19, 58, 120-122,

L.M.Krauss, 202n, 235

Th.Kuhn, 19, 123-130, 130, 179,

M.Lachièze-Rey, 172, 199n, 208n, 230n, 283,

J.Ladyman, 51n,

Lagada, 66

I.Lakatos, 19, 119, 123, 130-133, 135, 137

G.Lakoff , 61, 88-93

M.Lachièze-Rey,

L.Lagrange, 240

J.-B. de Lamarck, 126

J. Offroy de La Mettrie, 216

Lao-tse, 77

P.S.Laplace, 180, 251, 264, 266

R.Laughlin, 6,

A.-L. Lavoisier, 124

L.Lederman, 184, 197-198,

G.W.Leibniz, 26, 30, 31, 70, 92, 95, 114, 151, 161, 177, 194, 218, 278, 284

G.Lemaître, 187

N.Lenin, 134

Leonardo da Vinci, 119

E.Lessing, 180

Leucippo, 25-26, 74, 173, 185, 229-230, 235, 269

A.Linde, 187n

S.Lloyd,.287, 288,

J.Locke, 19, 61, 72,

Lolli G., 88n

E.Lorenz, 263,

Lucrezio, 231

R.Lullo (R.Llull), 84

J.-P.Luminet, 187n

E.Mach, 141

A.Machado, 4, 10, 203, 209, 271

J.E. Mac Taggart, 33, 34, 269

Th.Malthus, 152

B.Mandelbrot, 8, 263

C.Mangione, 109,

Maometto, 174

K.Marx, 166, 251

H.Maturana, 20n, 88

T.Matsuzawa, 100

J.C. Maxwell, 179, 180

Mendeleev, 210

Menecmo, 67

M.Mersenne, 138

H.Meschkowski, 110n

H.Minkowski, 267n

P. della Mirandola, 74

J.Monod, 12-13, 134, 244, 282-283,

E.Morin, 4n, 209-213

G.Nemorario, 119

I.Newton, 33, 95, 119, 121, 130, 138, 151

Nicola da Cusa, 74, 84,

Nicola di Oresme, 119

F.Nietzsche, 18, 223

Noè, 186n

R.E. Núñez, 61, 88-93

Ockham (Guglielmo di ), 157

H.W. Olbers, 274

Omero, 256

P.Omodeo,

R.Oerter, 182-183, 243,

A.I.Oparin, 114

Parmenide, 59, 153, 192, 231, 269

W.Pauli, 56, 183n

L.C. Pauling, 281n

M.Pauri, 236

D.Peet,

R.Penrose, 8-9, 74, 109, 176-177, 180, 191, 224, 260,

Pericle, 230

M.Piazza,

Pietro Aureolo, 157

Pitagora, 59, 79-80,

M.Planck, 101, 129, 177, 181, 183, 286

Platone, 14, 24, 25, 27, 37, 50, 59, 69, 71-73, 76, 81-83, 86, 121, 130, 151, 157, 174, 177, 192, 194, 251, 278

Plotino, 74

Plutarco di Cheronea, 81, 83,

B.Podolski, 181

M.Pohlenz, 10,

J.-H. Poincaré, 61, 240, 256, 262, 265

K.R.Popper, 19, 121-123, 130, 131, 147, 152, 177,

J.Priestley, 124

I.Prigogine, 7, 112, 171-172, 257, 262, 263, 264, 272,

Proclo, 66, 83,

W.Quine, 119, 120, 129, 131

L.Randall, 241-242, 288

G.Reale, 59

H.Reeves, 8, 224, 289, 289

T.Regge, 18, 117, 224

H.Reichenbach, 177

A.Robinson, 62n

M.Roncadelli,

W.C. Röntgen 125

R.Rorty, 19-20,

Roscellino, 51

N.Rosen, 181

D.Ruelle,

B.Russell, 59n, 60, 72, 92, 278

L.Russo, 174n

E.Rutherford, 181

J.-P. Sartre, 48-49, 153, 154-156,

K.W.Scheele, 124

E.Schrödinger, 38, 73, 140, 141-142, 174, 175, 180, 191,

W.Schuppe, 141

A.Seidenberg, 66, 67, 79

Ch. Seife,

H.Seifert,

F.Selleri,

Senofane, 223,

Sesto Empirico, 218

E.Severino, 28, 69

A.Schopenhauer, 31

C.E.Shannon, 261

S.Smale, 265

L.Smolin, 51, 57, 74, 166, 198, 223, 242-243, 250, 259, 277, 289

Socrate, 25, 59

H.Spencer, 52, 126

B.Spinoza, 27, 30, 31, 33, 50, 141, 177, 278

P.Steinhardt, 187n

I.Stenghers, 7, 237n

I.Stewart, 265-266,

L.Susskind, 200-201, 202, 204

Talete, 18, 66, 230, 265

P.Teilhard de Chardin, 40, 114

Teofrasto, 174

Thabit-ibn-Qurra, 68

r.Thom, 263

G.‘t Hooft, 183,

F.J.Tipler, 38, 57, 74, 102, 140, 150-151, 166, 167, 168-171, 172, 222-223,

Claudio Tolomeo, 122

Tommaso d’Aquino, 29, 83, 119, 150

A.Turing, 263

J.Ussher, 186

F.Vaio, 264-265,

B.L. van der Waerden, 66

B. van Fraassen, 205, 279

F.Varela, 20n, 88,

G.Veneziano, 104

C.A.Viano,

A.Vulpiani, 264, 266,

A.R. Wallace, 166

J.D. Watson 152

W.Weaver, 261, 262

K.Th.W, Weierstrass, 92

S.Weinberg, 49, 144, 173, 186, 187n, 270n

H.C. Weyl, 240

J.A. Wheeler, 39, 167

W.Whewell, 240, 279

A.N.Whitehead, 25, 31-38, 59, 60, 70, 72, 278

N.Wiener, 213

E.Wigner, 54, 95, 100, 105, 240, 241

E.Witten, 185, 186,

L.Wittgenstein, 60, 70,

Cr. Wolff, 218

N.Zanghì, 17n,

A.Zeilinger, 44, 215,

P. Zellini, 61n, 79, 83n,

Zenone d’Elea,

Zenone di Cizio, 10,