Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud

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laws of motion ref 1

laws of nature ref 1, ref 2

learned journals ref 1

learned societies ref 1

libraries ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

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catalogues ref 1, ref 2

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public ref 1

linguistics ref 1

lists ref 1, ref 2

literacy:

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and Judaism ref 1

London ref 1

literary life ref 1

literature:

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Christian ref 1

drama ref 1

early Middle Ages ref 1

epics ref 1, ref 2

and imperialism ref 1

Indian ref 1

love poetry of the Middle Ages ref 1

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novels ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

poetry ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

prose ref 1

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lixue ref 1

logarithms ref 1

logic ref 1

longitude ref 1

Lunar Society of Birmingham ref 1

lunar–solar cycle ref 1

Lutheranism ref 1

luxury goods ref 1, ref 2

magnetic compass ref 1, ref 2

man:

antiquity of ref 1, ref 2

capacity for knowledge ref 1, ref 2

chronologies ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

definition after discovery of America ref 1

elevation in Renaissance ref 1

emergence of modern ref 1

Enlightenment view ref 1

purpose ref 1, ref 2

rationality ref 1

relation to the divine ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Manchester Philosophical Society ref 1

Manicheism ref 1, ref 2

maps ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

maritime innovations:

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magnetic compass ref 1, ref 2

marine charts ref 1

rafting vessels ref 1

rudder ref 1

market economies ref 1

Marxism ref 1, ref 2

mathematics ref 1, ref 2

algebra ref 1

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innovations ref 1

language of nature ref 1

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medicine ref 1

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medicaments ref 1, ref 2

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Roman ref 1

megaliths ref 1

mental evolution:

social intelligence ref 1, ref 2

stages ref 1, ref 2illus.

types of intelligence ref 1

mercantilism ref 1

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mercenaries ref 1

meritocracy ref 1

metallurgy ref 1, ref 2

metaphysics ref 1, ref 2

metempsychosis ref 1

meteorology ref 1

military innovations ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

millenarianism ref 1

mimetic thinking ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

mind ref 1, ref 2

miracles ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

mirrors ref 1

modernism ref 1

monasticism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

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money ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

monotheism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

moral philosophy ref 1

moralism ref 1

morality, invention of ref 1

Muhammad (the Prophet) ref 1

music ref 1

forms ref 1, ref 2

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instruments ref 1, ref 2

notation ref 1

opera ref 1

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theory ref 1

virtuosity ref 1

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mysticism ref 1

mythic thinking ref 1, ref 2

myths and mythology ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Nataraja (form of Shiva) ref 1

nationalism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7

natural law ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

natural man ref 1

natural selection ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

natural theology ref 1

naval innovations ref 1

navigation ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

needles (sewing) ref 1, ref 2

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Neptunism ref 1, ref 2

New World ref 1, ref 2

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noble savage ref 1

novelty ref 1

numbers/numerals:

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counting systems ref 1

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Hindu ref 1

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numerology ref 1

obscurantism:

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optics ref 1, ref 2

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dictionaries ref 1

encyclopaedias and summae ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

Éncyclopédie ref 1

Orientalism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Orphism ref 1, ref 2

ovens ref 1

paganism ref 1

painting ref 1, ref 2

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palynology (pollen analysis) ref 1

paper-making ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

papyrus ref 1

parchment ref 1, ref 2

patriarchs ref 1

periodic table of the elements ref 1

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personal growth ref 1

personal identification ref 1, ref 2

personal privacy ref 1

perspective ref 1

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philology ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

philosophy:

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physiology ref 1, ref 2

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places of worship:

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churches ref 1, ref 2

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mosques ref 1

synagogue/Temple ref 1

Platonism ref 1

polis see city state (polis)

political economy ref 1

political expediency ref 1

political history ref 1

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politics ref 1, ref 2