Middle Ages, 18, 25, 44, 56, 61, 71, 74–75, 77–78, 272

modes of knowledge production, 15, 24, 133, 140–141, 146, 263

Napoleonic model, 77, 101

nation states, 67, 136, 216

state, 67, 70, 77, 80–82, 87–90, 95, 98–104, 109–111, 135–140, 147, 149, 174, 180–185, 188, 206, 208, 210, 213, 215, 219, 221, 239–280

state capacity 10, 13, 26–27, 29, 31, 147, 182, 214, 222, 274, 278

state-university relations, 6, 12

strong states, 184, 186, 238

weak states, 10, 12, 184, 186–187, 207, 216, 238

nationalism, 51, 54, 76, 91, 101, 147, 254

Nazism, 86, 89, 91, 102

‘new public management’, 24, 94, 96, 104, 190

Newman, John Henry, 4, 79, 89–90, 89–90, 93

Newton, Isaac, 73, 75

misinterpretations, 96

Newtonian mechanics, 92

Nietzsche, Frederick, 23, 96

Oakeshott, Michael, 4, 137, 262

Plato, 22, 37, 43–46, 49, 61, 72–73, 128, 272

Poincaré, Henri, 93

Pope Gregory IX, 38

Priestley, John Boynton, 118

Protestants, 52–53

Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus), 72

Pythagorean mathematics, 43, 45

quantum theory, 44, 92–93

Regiomontanua, Johannes, 72–73

Romans, 8, 37, 44–46, 52, 55, 57–58, 64, 72, 80, 270

Russell, Bertrand, 91–92, 277

Scholastics, 46, 51

secularism, 37, 59–65, 67, 70, 76, 78, 85, 100, 181, 271–272

social morphology, 29–30, 99–100

morphogenesis, 68

morphological, 11, 61, 64, 101, 182, 213, 273, 277

Socratic tradition 43, 248, 260–261

Soviet regime, 26, 88, 103, 120, 135

science and technology of, 121–123, 218, 219

technology

and communication, 126, 130, 157–158, 163, 168, 200, 242, 245

social and political aspects, 22, 29–30, 40, 53, 68–69, 86, 90–91, 96–97, 102, 126–127, 129–132, 140, 246, 255, 267

Thirty Years War, 56

Tudors, 26, 52, 60

Universities Australia (UA), 217, 228

universities

Al-Azhar University, 18