The place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe
by Lynn Thorndike
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About this eBook
- Author
- Thorndike, Lynn, 1882-1965
- Original Publication
- United States: Columbia university press,1905.
- Credits
- Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
- Subject
- Magic -- Europe -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 69622
- Release Date
- December 23, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE PLACE OF MAGIC IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF EUROPE
- 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 3.ERRATA
- 4.CHAPTER I Illustrations of Belief in Magic in Mediæval and in Early Modern Times
- 5.CHAPTER II Magic: Its Origins and Relations to Science
- 6.CHAPTER III Pliny’s Natural History
- 7.CHAPTER IV Some Antecedents of the Belief in Magic in the Roman Empire
- 8.CHAPTER V Belief in Magic in the Empire
- 9.CHAPTER VI Critics of Magic
- 10.CHAPTER VII The Last Century of the Empire
- 11.CHAPTER VIII Conclusion
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