A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Lynn Thorndike

Chapter 2. Pliny’s Natural History.

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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. ” 3. Seneca and Ptolemy: Natural Divination and Astrology. ” 4. Galen. I. The man and his times. II. His medicine and experimental science. III. His attitude toward magic. ” 5. Ancient Applied Science and Magic. ” 6. Plutarch’s Essays. ” 7. Apuleius of Madaura. ” 8. Philostratus’s _Life of Apollonius of Tyana_. ” 9. Literary and Philosophical Attacks upon Superstition. ” 10. The Spurious Mystic Writings of Hermes, Orpheus, and Zoroaster. ” 11. Neo-Platonism and its Relations to Astrology and Theurgy. ” 12. Aelian, Solinus, and Horapollo.