A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Vol I

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Author

Thorndike, Lynn, 1882-1965

Title

A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2) During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era

Original Publication

United States: Columbia University Press,1923.

Credits

Tim Lindell, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

Q: Science

Subject

Magic -- History

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 67792

Release Date

April 7, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber’s Notes
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.A HISTORY OF MAGIC AND EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.PREFACE
7. 7.ABBREVIATIONS
8. 8.LIST OF WORKS FREQUENTLY CITED BY AUTHOR AND DATE OF PUBLICATION OR BRIEF TITLE
9. 9.VOLUME I
10. 10.Untitled
11. 11.CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
12. 12.APPENDIX I SOME WORKS ON MAGIC, RELIGION, AND ASTRONOMY IN BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA — BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE — FOREWORD
13. 13.CHAPTER II PLINY’S NATURAL HISTORY — I. Its Place in the History of Science — II. Its Experimental Tendency — III. Pliny’s Account of Magic. — IV. The Science of the Magi — V. Pliny’s Magical Science
14. 14.CHAPTER III SENECA AND PTOLEMY: NATURAL DIVINATION AND ASTROLOGY
15. 15.CHAPTER IV GALEN — I. The Man and His Times — II. His Medicine and Experimental Science — III. His Attitude Towards Magic
16. 16.CHAPTER V ANCIENT APPLIED SCIENCE AND MAGIC: VITRUVIUS, HERO, AND THE GREEK ALCHEMISTS
17. 17.CHAPTER VI PLUTARCH’S ESSAYS
18. 18.CHAPTER VII APULEIUS OF MADAURA — I. His Life and Works — II. Magic in the Metamorphoses — III. Magic in the Apology
19. 19.CHAPTER VIII PHILOSTRATUS’S LIFE OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
20. 20.CHAPTER IX LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ATTACKS UPON SUPERSTITION: CICERO, FAVORINUS, SEXTUS EMPIRICUS, AND LUCIAN
21. 21.CHAPTER X THE SPURIOUS MYSTIC WRITINGS OF HERMES, ORPHEUS, AND ZOROASTER
22. 22.CHAPTER XI NEO-PLATONISM AND ITS RELATIONS TO ASTROLOGY AND THEURGY
23. 23.CHAPTER XII AELIAN, SOLINUS AND HORAPOLLO
24. 24.BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
25. 25.Untitled
26. 26.FOREWORD
27. 27.CHAPTER XIII THE BOOK OF ENOCH
28. 28.CHAPTER XIV PHILO JUDAEUS
29. 29.CHAPTER XV THE GNOSTICS
30. 30.CHAPTER XVI THE CHRISTIAN APOCRYPHA
31. 31.CHAPTER XVII THE RECOGNITIONS OF CLEMENT AND SIMON MAGUS
32. 32.CHAPTER XVIII THE CONFESSION OF CYPRIAN AND SOME SIMILAR STORIES
33. 33.CHAPTER XIX ORIGEN AND CELSUS
34. 34.CHAPTER XX OTHER CHRISTIAN DISCUSSION OF MAGIC BEFORE AUGUSTINE
35. 35.CHAPTER XXI CHRISTIANITY AND NATURAL SCIENCE: BASIL, EPIPHANIUS, AND THE PHYSIOLOGUS
36. 36.CHAPTER XXII AUGUSTINE ON MAGIC AND ASTROLOGY
37. 37.CHAPTER XXIII THE FUSION OF PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN THOUGHT IN THE FOURTH AND FIFTH CENTURIES
38. 38.BOOK III. THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
39. 39.CHAPTER XXIV THE STORY OF NECTANEBUS OR THE ALEXANDER LEGEND IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES [2293]
40. 40.CHAPTER XXV POST-CLASSICAL MEDICINE
41. 41.CHAPTER XXVI PSEUDO-LITERATURE IN NATURAL SCIENCE OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
42. 42.CHAPTER XXVII OTHER EARLY MEDIEVAL LEARNING: BOETHIUS, ISIDORE, BEDE, GREGORY THE GREAT
43. 43.CHAPTER XXVIII ARABIC OCCULT SCIENCE OF THE NINTH CENTURY
44. 44.CHAPTER XXIX LATIN ASTROLOGY AND DIVINATION: ESPECIALLY IN THE NINTH, TENTH, AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES
45. 45.APPENDIX I SOME MANUSCRIPTS OF THE SPHERE OF PYTHAGORAS OR APULEIUS
46. 46.APPENDIX II EGYPTIAN DAYS IN EARLY MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
47. 47.CHAPTER XXX GERBERT AND THE INTRODUCTION OF ARABIC ASTROLOGY
48. 48.CHAPTER XXXI ANGLO-SAXON, SALERNITAN, AND OTHER LATIN MEDICINE IN MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE NINTH TO THE TWELFTH CENTURY
49. 49.CHAPTER XXXII CONSTANTINUS AFRICANUS: C. 1015-1087.
50. 50.CHAPTER XXXIII TREATISES ON THE ARTS BEFORE THE INTRODUCTION OF ARABIC ALCHEMY
51. 51.CHAPTER XXXIV MARBOD, BISHOP OF RENNES, 1035—1123
52. 52.GENERAL INDEX
53. 53.BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
54. 54.INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS — FOOTNOTES:

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