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A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Lynn Thorndike
9. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ATTACKS UPON SUPERSTITION:
A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Lynn Thorndike
9. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ATTACKS UPON SUPERSTITION:
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Chapters
Chapter 1: Chapter 1
Chapter 2: BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Chapter 3: 2. PLINY’S NATURAL HISTORY 41
Chapter 4: 4. GALEN 117
Chapter 5: 5. ANCIENT APPLIED SCIENCE AND MAGIC: VITRUVIUS,
Chapter 6: 9. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ATTACKS UPON SUPERSTITION:
Chapter 7: 10. SPURIOUS MYSTIC WRITINGS OF HERMES, ORPHEUS, AND
Chapter 8: 11. NEO-PLATONISM AND ITS RELATIONS TO ASTROLOGY AND
Chapter 9: BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
Chapter 10: 21. CHRISTIANITY AND NATURAL SCIENCE: BASIL, EPIPHANIUS,
Chapter 11: 23. THE FUSION OF PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN THOUGHT IN
Chapter 12: 24. THE STORY OF NECTANEBUS, OR THE ALEXANDER LEGEND
Chapter 13: 27. OTHER EARLY MEDIEVAL LEARNING: BOETHIUS, ISIDORE,
Chapter 14: 29. LATIN ASTROLOGY AND DIVINATION, ESPECIALLY IN THE
Chapter 15: 31. ANGLO-SAXON, SALERNITAN AND OTHER LATIN MEDICINE
Chapter 16: 33. TREATISES ON THE ARTS BEFORE THE INTRODUCTION OF
Chapter 17: 34. MARBOD 775
Chapter 18: 35. THE EARLY SCHOLASTICS: PETER ABELARD AND HUGH
Chapter 19: 38. SOME TWELFTH CENTURY TRANSLATORS, CHIEFLY OF
Chapter 20: BOOK V. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
Chapter 21: 57. EARLY THIRTEENTH CENTURY MEDICINE: GILBERT OF
Chapter 22: 59. ALBERTUS MAGNUS 517
Chapter 23: 61. ROGER BACON 616
Chapter 24: 72. CONCLUSION 969
Chapter 25: Introduction à l’étude de la chimie des anciens et du moyen âge, 1889.
Chapter 26: 1911. Popular.
Chapter 27: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 28: BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Chapter 29: Chapter 2. Pliny’s Natural History.
Chapter 30: BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Chapter 31: CHAPTER II
Chapter 32: CHAPTER III
Chapter 33: CHAPTER IV
Chapter 34: CHAPTER V
Chapter 35: CHAPTER VI
Chapter 36: CHAPTER VII
Chapter 37: CHAPTER VIII
Chapter 38: CHAPTER IX
Chapter 39: CHAPTER X
Chapter 40: introduction, which may be regarded as a piquant appetizer to whet the
Chapter 41: CHAPTER XI
Chapter 42: CHAPTER XII
Chapter 43: BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
Chapter 44: Chapter 13. The Book of Enoch.
Chapter 45: BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
Chapter 46: CHAPTER XIII
Chapter 47: CHAPTER XIV
Chapter 48: CHAPTER XV
Chapter 49: CHAPTER XVI
Chapter 50: CHAPTER XVII
Chapter 51: CHAPTER XVIII
Chapter 52: CHAPTER XIX
Chapter 53: CHAPTER XX
Chapter 54: CHAPTER XXI
Chapter 55: 329. When or where the nine homilies which compose his _Hexaemeron_
Chapter 56: CHAPTER XXII
Chapter 57: CHAPTER XXIII
Chapter 58: Chapter 24. The Story of Nectanebus.
Chapter 59: CHAPTER XXIV
Chapter 60: prologue which is found only in the oldest extant manuscript, a Bamberg
Chapter 61: CHAPTER XXV
Chapter 62: CHAPTER XXVI
Chapter 63: CHAPTER XXVII
Chapter 64: CHAPTER XXVIII
Chapter 65: CHAPTER XXIX
Chapter 66: CHAPTER XXX
Chapter 67: introduction?
Chapter 68: introduction, it would be a more valuable bit of evidence as to his
Chapter 69: CHAPTER XXXI
Chapter 70: introduction of Arabic medicine to the western world.
Chapter 71: CHAPTER XXXII
Chapter 72: introduction of translations from the Arabic is comparatively free from
Chapter 73: CHAPTER XXXIII
Chapter 74: CHAPTER XXXIV
Chapter 75: introduction of Arabic alchemy, 773;
Chapter 76: 106. M. A. Ruffer, _Palaeopathology of Egypt_, 1921.
Chapter 77: 8. Daimon and Hero, with Excursus on Ritual Forms preserved in Greek
Chapter 78: 1921. See also Thompson (1913), p. 14.
Chapter 79: 99. “Phyteuma quale sit describere supervacuum habeo cum sit usus eius
Chapter 80: 4838. Arsenal 981, in an Italian hand, is presumably incorrectly dated
Chapter 81: 1507. See Justin Winsor, _A Bibliography of Ptolemy’s Geography_, 1884,
Chapter 82: 1895. Since then I believe that the only work of Galen to be translated
Chapter 83: 66. Also II, 216; XIX, 19 and 41.
Chapter 84: 330. Pliny, too (XXI, 88), states that trefoil is poisonous itself and
Chapter 85: 1867. In English we have _The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria_,
Chapter 86: 1890. I have found that Riess, while including some of the passages
Chapter 87: 53. See below, II, 220-21.
Chapter 88: 1860. Greek text in PG, vol. XVI, part 3; English translation in AN,
Chapter 89: 3836. Other MSS are: BN 11624, 11th century; BN 12135, 9th century; BN
Chapter 90: 1888. Schanz (1905) 138, mentions only continental MSS, although there
Chapter 91: introduction by A. von Premerstein, C. Wessely, and J. Mantuani
Chapter 92: 177. This is not, however, to be regarded as the invention of lead
CICERO, FAVORINUS, SEXTUS EMPIRICUS, LUCIAN 268
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