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A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Lynn Thorndike
3 by Lynn Thorndike, Thorndike, Lynn, 1882-1965
Chapter 2: BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE
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BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE
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2. PLINY’S NATURAL HISTORY 41
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4. GALEN 117
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5. ANCIENT APPLIED SCIENCE AND MAGIC: VITRUVIUS,
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9. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ATTACKS UPON SUPERSTITION:
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10. SPURIOUS MYSTIC WRITINGS OF HERMES, ORPHEUS, AND
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11. NEO-PLATONISM AND ITS RELATIONS TO ASTROLOGY AND
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BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
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21. CHRISTIANITY AND NATURAL SCIENCE: BASIL, EPIPHANIUS,
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23. THE FUSION OF PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN THOUGHT IN
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24. THE STORY OF NECTANEBUS, OR THE ALEXANDER LEGEND
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27. OTHER EARLY MEDIEVAL LEARNING: BOETHIUS, ISIDORE,
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29. LATIN ASTROLOGY AND DIVINATION, ESPECIALLY IN THE
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31. ANGLO-SAXON, SALERNITAN AND OTHER LATIN MEDICINE
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33. TREATISES ON THE ARTS BEFORE THE INTRODUCTION OF
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34. MARBOD 775
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35. THE EARLY SCHOLASTICS: PETER ABELARD AND HUGH
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38. SOME TWELFTH CENTURY TRANSLATORS, CHIEFLY OF
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BOOK V. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
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57. EARLY THIRTEENTH CENTURY MEDICINE: GILBERT OF
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59. ALBERTUS MAGNUS 517
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61. ROGER BACON 616
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72. CONCLUSION 969
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Introduction à l’étude de la chimie des anciens et du moyen âge, 1889.
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1911. Popular.
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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
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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.
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CHAPTER XXIV
Chapter 60
prologue which is found only in the oldest extant manuscript, a Bamberg
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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;
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106. M. A. Ruffer, _Palaeopathology of Egypt_, 1921.
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8. Daimon and Hero, with Excursus on Ritual Forms preserved in Greek
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1921. See also Thompson (1913), p. 14.
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99. “Phyteuma quale sit describere supervacuum habeo cum sit usus eius
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4838. Arsenal 981, in an Italian hand, is presumably incorrectly dated
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1507. See Justin Winsor, _A Bibliography of Ptolemy’s Geography_, 1884,
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1895. Since then I believe that the only work of Galen to be translated
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66. Also II, 216; XIX, 19 and 41.
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330. Pliny, too (XXI, 88), states that trefoil is poisonous itself and
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1867. In English we have _The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria_,
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1890. I have found that Riess, while including some of the passages
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53. See below, II, 220-21.
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1860. Greek text in PG, vol. XVI, part 3; English translation in AN,
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3836. Other MSS are: BN 11624, 11th century; BN 12135, 9th century; BN
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1888. Schanz (1905) 138, mentions only continental MSS, although there
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introduction by A. von Premerstein, C. Wessely, and J. Mantuani
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177. This is not, however, to be regarded as the invention of lead
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