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Index
Adams, Robyn 8
Africa 33, 34
Akkerman, Nadine 2, 8–9
ambassadors
English 3, 6, 11, 13, 55
of Holland 58
‘The Ambassadors’ (painting) 94
Amsterdam 13, 66, 73
Anglo-Dutch relations (during and
after 1688) 18–32
collaboration 42, 43
intellectual tradition, culture and
research 32, 64
régime 22
wars 25, 35–6
Antwerp 53, 56–8, 60
architecture 25, 53–5
architectural ‘influence’ 56
historians of 56
neo-classical 53
Bacon, Sir Francis 49, 75
Bakhtin 88, 91–2
balance-spring watch 41
‘perfection’ of 42
Ballard, John 62
de la Barre, Anne 63
de la Barre, Pierre 63
Bohemia 2–4, 6–8, 14–15, 26, 51, 54,
63
Boswell, Sir William 55
Boyle, Robert 20, 24, 30–1
bracelet (gift to Dorothea van Dorp)
49–50, 79
Bruce, Alexander, Lord Brouncker 35,
41, 43–4
Bruce–Huygens clocks 43–44
calendars 10, 15
Gregorian 18, 33
Julian 18, 33
Cambridge University 20, 24, 29,
31, 39
Carleton, Sir Dudley 3, 6, 13
Carlyle, Jane Welsh 16–17
Carlyle, Thomas 16
carnival 90–1, 93
Kermesse 11
Catholics 7, 20, 32
de Caus, Isaac 25, 26
Chapelain, Jean 34
charivaris 84, 87, 90–1, 94
Charles I 2–3, 26, 57, 59, 63
imprisonment and execution of 62–3
Charles II 15, 33
circular pendulum 41–3
civil wars, English 59, 62
Clarke, Professor Norma 15
clocks 34, 36–8, 41–3
Bruce-Huygens 44
longitude, see longitude clocks
pendulum 33–5, 39, 41–4
Index 141