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History of Magic and Experimental Science (Vol. 1&2)

Study on Alchemy & Pseudoscience During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our EraBy Lynn Thorndike

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History of Magic and Experimental Science is a two-volume study by Lynn Thorndike, American historian of medieval science and alchemy. The book covers a period from antique until the thirteen century. Thorndike writes about magic and science in medieval times with the goal of finding a historical truth. Table of Contents: Volume 1: Book I. The Roman Empire Book II. Early Christian Thought Book III. The Early Middle Ages Volume 2: Book IV. The Twelfth Century Book V. The Thirteenth Century

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GenreHistory

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Publish dateOct 7, 2022

LanguageEnglish

1Volume 1

46Book IV. The Twelfth Century

2Preface

47Chapter XXXV The Early Scholastics: Peter Abelard and Hugh of St. Victor

3Chapter I Introduction

48Chapter XXXVI Adelard of Bath

4Book I. The Roman Empire

49Chapter XXXVII William of Conches

5Foreword

50Chapter XXXVIII Some Twelfth Century Translators, Chiefly of Astrology from the Arabic in Spain

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6Chapter II Pliny’s Natural History

51Chapter XXXIX Bernard Silvester: Astrology and Geomancy

7Chapter III Seneca and Ptolemy: Natural Divination And Astrology

52Chapter XL Saint Hildegard of Bingen: 1098-1179

8Chapter IV Galen

53Chapter XLI John of Salisbury

9Chapter V Ancient Applied Science and Magic: Vitruvius, Hero, and the Greek Alchemists

54Chapter XLII Daniel of Morley and Roger of Hereford: Or Astrology in England in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century

10Chapter VI Plutarch’s Essays

55Chapter XLIII Alexander Neckam on the Natures of Things

11Chapter VII Apuleius of Madaura

56Chapter XLIV Moses Maimonides (Musa Ibn Maimun) 1135-1204

12Chapter VIII Philostratus’s Life of Apollonius of Tyana

57Chapter XLV Hermetic Books in the Middle Ages

13Chapter IX Literary and Philosophical Attacks Upon Superstition: Cicero, Favorinus, Sextus Empiricus, and Lucian

58Chapter XLVI Kiranides

14Chapter X The Spurious Mystic Writings of Hermes, Orpheus, and Zoroaster

59Chapter XLVII Prester John and the Marvels of India

15Chapter XI Neo-Platonism and Its Relations to Astrology and Theurgy

60Chapter XLVIII The Pseudo-Aristotle

16Chapter XII Aelian, Solinus and Horapollo

61Chapter XLIX Solomon and the Ars Notoria

17Book II. Early Christian Thought

62Chapter L Ancient and Medieval Dream-books

18Foreword

63Book V. The Thirteenth Century

19Chapter XIII The Book of Enoch

64Foreword

20Chapter XIV Philo Judaeus

65Chapter LI Michael Scot

21Chapter XV The Gnostics

66Chapter LII William of Auvergne

22Chapter XVI THE CHRISTIAN APOCRYPHA

67Chapter LIII Thomas of Cantimpré

23Chapter XVII THE RECOGNITIONS OF CLEMENT AND SIMON MAGUS

68Chapter LIV Bartholomew of England

24Chapter XVIII The Confession of Cyprian and Some Similar Stories

69Chapter LV Robert Grosseteste

25Chapter XIX Origen and Celsus

70Chapter LVI Vincent of Beauvais

26Chapter XX Other Christian Discussion of Magic Before Augustine

71Chapter LVII Early Thirteenth Century Medicine: Gilbert of England and William of England

27Chapter XXI Christianity and Natural Science: Basil, Epiphanius, and the Physiologus

72Chapter LVIII Petrus Hispanus

28Chapter XXII Augustine on Magic and Astrology

73Chapter LIX Albertus Magnus (pt. 1)

29Chapter XXIII The Fusion of Pagan and Christian Thought in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries

74Chapter LIX Albertus Magnus (pt. 2)

30Book III. The Early Middle Ages

75Chapter LX Thomas Aquinas

31Chapter XXIV The Story of Nectanebus or the Alexander Legend in the Early Middle Ages2293

76Chapter LXI Roger Bacon (pt. 1)

32Chapter XXV Post-classical Medicine

77Chapter LXI Roger Bacon (pt. 2)

33Chapter XXVI Pseudo-literature in Natural Science of the Early Middle Ages

78Chapter LXII The Speculum Astronomiae

34Chapter XXVII Other Early Medieval Learning: Boethius, Isidore, Bede, Gregory the Great

79Chapter LXIII Three Treatises Ascribed to Albertus Magnus but Usually Considered Spurious: Experimenta Alberti, De Mirabilibus Mundi, De Secretis Mulierum

35Chapter XXVIII Arabic Occult Science of the Ninth Century

80Chapter LXIV Experiments and Secrets of Galen, Rasis, and Others:

36Chapter XXIX Latin Astrology and Divination: Especially in the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Centuries

81Chapter LXV Experiments and Secrets of Galen, Rasis, and Others

37Chapter XXX Gerbert and the Introduction of Arabic Astrology

82Chapter LXVI Picatrix

38Chapter XXXI Anglo-Saxon, Salernitan, and Other Latin Medicine in Manuscripts from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century

83Chapter LXVII Guido Bonatti and Bartholomew of Parma: An Astrologer and a Geomancer

39Chapter XXXII Constantinus Africanus: C. 1015-1087.

84Chapter LXVIII Arnald of Villanova

40Chapter XXXIII Treatises on the Arts Before the Introduction of Arabic Alchemy

85Chapter LXIX Raymond Lull