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

by Lynn Thorndike

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Abbreviations
  3. List of Works Frequently Cited by Author and Date of Publication or Brief Title
  4. Chapter I. Introduction
  5. Appendix I Some Works on Magic, Religion, and Astronomy in Babylonia and Assyria
  6. Book I. The Roman Empire
  7. Foreword
  8. Chapter II. Pliny’s Natural History
  9. Chapter III. Seneca and Ptolemy: Natural Divination and Astrology
  10. Chapter IV. Galen
  11. Chapter V. Ancient Applied Science and Magic: Vitruvius, Hero, and the Greek Alchemists
  12. Chapter VI. Plutarch’s Essays
  13. Chapter VII. Apuleius of Madaura
  14. Chapter VIII. Philostratus’s Life of Apollonius of Tyana
  15. Chapter IX. Literary and Philosophical Attacks Upon Superstition: Cicero, Favorinus, Sextus Empiricus, and Lucian
  16. Chapter X. The Spurious Mystic Writings of Hermes, Orpheus, and Zoroaster
  17. Chapter XI. Neo-Platonism and Its Relations to Astrology and Theurgy
  18. Chapter XII. Aelian, Solinus and Horapollo
  19. Book II. Early Christian Thought
  20. Foreword
  21. Chapter XIII. The Book of Enoch
  22. Chapter XIV. Philo Judaeus
  23. Chapter XV. The Gnostics
  24. Chapter XVI. The Christian Apocrypha
  25. Chapter XVII. The Recognitions of Clement and Simon Magus
  26. Chapter XVIII. The Confession of Cyprian and Some Similar Stories
  27. Chapter XIX. Origen and Celsus
  28. Chapter XX. Other Christian Discussion of Magic Before Augustine
  29. Chapter XXI. Christianity and Natural Science: Basil, Epiphanius, and the Physiologus
  30. Chapter XXII. Augustine on Magic and Astrology
  31. Chapter XXIII. The Fusion of Pagan and Christian Thought in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries
  32. Book III. The Early Middle Ages
  33. Chapter XXIV. The Story of Nectanebus or the Alexander Legend in the Early Middle Ages
  34. Chapter XXV. Post-Classical Medicine
  35. Chapter XXVI. Pseudo-Literature in Natural Science of the Early Middle Ages
  36. Chapter XXVII. Other Early Medieval Learning: Boethius, Isidore, Bede, Gregory the Great
  37. Chapter XXVIII. Arabic Occult Science of the Ninth Century
  38. Chapter XXIX. Latin Astrology and Divination: Especially in the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Centuries
  39. Appendix I Some Manuscripts of the Sphere of Pythagoras or Apuleius
  40. Appendix II Egyptian Days in Early Medieval Manuscripts
  41. Chapter XXX. Gerbert and the Introduction of Arabic Astrology
  42. Chapter XXXI. Anglo-Saxon, Salernitan, and Other Latin Medicine in Manuscripts from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century
  43. Chapter XXXII. Constantinus Africanus: C. 1015-1087
  44. Chapter XXXIII. Treatises on the Arts Before the Introduction of Arabic Alchemy
  45. Chapter XXXIV. Marbod, Bishop of Rennes, 1035—1123
  46. Bibliographical Index
  47. Index of Manuscripts

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