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341<br />

Galileo, 40, 41, 50, 51, 305; on<br />

cause and effect, 60; and<br />

global truths, 44; and<br />

mechanistic world view, 57;<br />

thought experiments of, 43<br />

Galvani, Luigi, 107<br />

Gardner, Martin, 234, 259<br />

Gassendi, Pierre, 62<br />

Generalized forces, 135-37<br />

Geographical time, xviii<br />

Geography, 197; internal time<br />

in, 272<br />

Geology, 121; time in, 116, 208<br />

Gibbs, J. W., 15, 238, 247-5 1,<br />

261<br />

Gillispie, C. C., 31, 321n<br />

Glycolysis, 155-56<br />

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,<br />

128<br />

Gould, Stephen J. , 204<br />

Grasse, 181, 186<br />

Gravitation: Comte on, 105;<br />

and determination of motion,<br />

59; in early universe, 298;<br />

Einstein's interpretation of,<br />

34; explanatory power of, 28,<br />

29; in far-from-equilibrium<br />

conditions, 163-64; universal<br />

law of, I, 12, 66<br />

Guldberg and Waage's law (also<br />

Mass action, law oO, 133<br />

Hamilton, William Rowan, 68,<br />

%; see Hamiltonian<br />

Hamiltonian: equation, 249;<br />

function, 68, 70-7 1, 74, 107,<br />

220-2 1; operator, 221,<br />

226-27; and T-violation, 259<br />

Hankins, Thomas, 318n<br />

Hao Bai-lin, 151, 152<br />

Hausheer, Roger, 2<br />

Hawking, 117<br />

Heat, 12, 79, 103; conduction<br />

of, 104, 135; electricity<br />

produced by, 108; and heat<br />

engines, 12, 103, 106-7; heat<br />

engines, arrow of time and,<br />

111-15; propagation of,<br />

INDEX<br />

104-5; repelling force of, 66;<br />

specific, 106; transformation<br />

of matter by, 105<br />

Hegel, G. W. R, 79, 89-90, 92,<br />

93, 173<br />

Heidegger, Martin, 32-33, 42,<br />

79, 310<br />

Heisenberg, Werner, xxii, 220,<br />

292, 2%<br />

Heisenberg uncertainty<br />

relations, 178, 222-26<br />

Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig<br />

Ferdinand von, %, 109-11<br />

Herivel, J. , 322n<br />

Hess, Benno, 155<br />

Hirsch, J. , 151<br />

History: of ideas, 79; open<br />

character of, 207; reinsertion<br />

of, into natural and social<br />

sciences, 208; of science, 307<br />

(cosmology) 208, 215,<br />

(geography) 197, 272,<br />

(geology) 116, 121, 208<br />

Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry,<br />

baron d ' , 82<br />

Hooykaas, R., 317n<br />

Hopf, 266<br />

Hubble, Edwin Powell , 215<br />

Humanities, schism between<br />

science and, 11, 13<br />

Hume, A. Ord, 317n<br />

Huss, John, xxii<br />

Huyghens, Christiaan, 60<br />

Hydrodynamics, 127; far-fromequilibrium<br />

phenomena in,<br />

141<br />

Hypnons, 180, 287, 288<br />

Hysteresis, 166<br />

Idealization, 41-43, 69,<br />

112-1 14, 115, 120, 216, 248,<br />

252, 305-06<br />

Impossibility, demonstrations<br />

of, 17, 216- 17, 296, 299-300<br />

Individual time, xviii<br />

Industrial Age , 111; combustion<br />

and, 103

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