Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud

Veblen, Thorsten: Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) ref 1

Vega Carpio, Lope de: El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón ref 1

Venerable Bede ref 1

De ratione temporum (On the Calculation of Time) ref 1

Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation ref 1

Verdi, Giuseppe ref 1, ref 2

Veronese: Feast in the House of Levi, The ref 1

Vesalius, Andreas ref 1, ref 2

Vico, Giambattista ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

Scienza Nuova (1725) ref 1, ref 2

Virey, Jules ref 1

Virgil ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

Eclogues ref 1

Georgics ref 1

Visigoths ref 1, ref 2

Vitruvius ref 1

Vogt, Joseph ref 1

Vogt, Karl ref 1

Volta, Alessandro ref 1

Voltaire ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

Century of Louis XIV, The (1751) ref 1

Essay on Customs (Essai sur le moeurs et l’esprit des nations) (1756) ref 1

impact ref 1

Philosophical Letters Concerning the English ref 1

Wagner, Richard ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

Ring, The ref 1

Waldo, Peter ref 1

Wang Huan-ce ref 1

Wang Mang, Emperor ref 1

Watt, James ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Webb, Walter Prescott: Great Frontier, The (1953) ref 1, ref 2

Weber, Carl Maria von ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Weber, Max ref 1

Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904) ref 1

Webster, Noah ref 1

Weiss, Johannes: Jesus’ proclamation of the Kingdom of God (1971) ref 1

West, M. L.: East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth, The (1997) ref 1

Whiston, William ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Wilkins, Charles ref 1, ref 2

Wilkinson, Endymion ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Williams, Raymond ref 1

Willis, Thomas ref 1

Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves, The (1664) ref 1

Wilson, A. N. ref 1, ref 2

Wittkower, Rudolf ref 1, ref 2

Woolley, Leonard ref 1, ref 2

Wordsworth, William ref 1

Wren, Christopher ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Wycliffe, John ref 1

Xuan Zang ref 1

In the Footsteps of the Buddha ref 1

Yang Xiong: Supreme Mystery, The ref 1

Yungang (China) ref 1

Zeno ref 1, ref 2

Zheng Yi ref 1, ref 2

Zhi Yi: Lotus of the True Law ref 1

Zhou Dunyi ref 1, ref 2

Zhou Youguang ref 1, ref 2

Zhoukoudien (China) ref 1

Zhu Xi ref 1, ref 2

Dao Tong ref 1

Four Books, The ref 1

Zhu Zaiyu: Lu xue jing yi (Essence of Music) ref 1

Zoroaster/Zarathustra ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

IDEAS

abstraction ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

academic freedom ref 1

administration ref 1, ref 2

aesthetics ref 1

agriculture ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

aids to learning:

accuracy ref 1

alphabetisation ref 1

argument/dispute ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

bibliographies ref 1

dictionaries ref 1, ref 2

Socratic method ref 1

tables of contents ref 1

alienation ref 1

alphabets ref 1, ref 2, ref 3 illus., ref 1 see also scripts

America:

founding ref 1, ref 2

impact of discovery ref 1

realisation of Enlightenment aims ref 1

at time of discovery ref 1

anatomy ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

Ancient Greece ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

Ancient Rome ref 1, ref 2

anthropology ref 1

anti-modernism ref 1

antiquarianism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

anti-Semitism ref 1

archaeology ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

architecture:

Buddhist ref 1, ref 2

Christian ref 1, ref 2

Classical ref 1

Hindu ref 1

Indian ref 1, ref 2

monumental ref 1

Arianism ref 1

art:

allegorical ref 1

Buddhist ref 1

Byzantine ref 1

cave ref 1, ref 2, ref 3illus.

changing idea ref 1

Chinese ref 1

Christian ref 1, ref 2

Classical ref 1, ref 2

earliest ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

garden design ref 1

Islamic calligraphy ref 1

modernist ref 1

Native American ref 1

naturalistic ref 1, ref 2

portraits ref 1

Renaissance ref 1

Romantic ref 1

sculpture ref 1, ref 2

status ref 1

Artificial Memory Systems ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4illus., ref 1, ref 2, ref 3 see also writing

artist:

as genius ref 1, ref 2

status ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

asceticism ref 1

Asiatic Society (Bengal) ref 1, ref 2

astrology ref 1, ref 2

astronomy ref 1

Babylonian ref 1

heliocentrism ref 1

Hellenistic ref 1

observatories ref 1

atheism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

atlases ref 1

atomic theory ref 1

atomism ref 1, ref 2

authority ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4 see also Catholic Church, challenges to authority

autobiography ref 1

Axial Age ref 1, ref 2

Aztecs ref 1

barbarians ref 1

beauty ref 1, ref 2

Benedictines ref 1, ref 2

Bhagavad Gita ref 1

Bible ref 1, ref 2

and archaeology ref 1

New Testament ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Old Testament (Hebrew scriptures) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

Pentateuch ref 1, ref 2

scholarship ref 1

Septuagint ref 1

textual criticism ref 1

widened access ref 1

biological evolution ref 1, ref 2 see also evolution