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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 28: 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
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Chapter 29
Chapter 2. Pliny’s Natural History.
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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.
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BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
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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
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CHAPTER XXI
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329. When or where the nine homilies which compose his _Hexaemeron_
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CHAPTER XXII
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CHAPTER XXIII
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Chapter 24. The Story of Nectanebus.
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CHAPTER XXIV
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prologue which is found only in the oldest extant manuscript, a Bamberg
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CHAPTER XXV
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CHAPTER XXVI
Chapter 63
CHAPTER XXVII
Chapter 64
CHAPTER XXVIII
Chapter 65
CHAPTER XXIX
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CHAPTER XXX
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introduction?
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introduction, it would be a more valuable bit of evidence as to his
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CHAPTER XXXI
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introduction of Arabic medicine to the western world.
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CHAPTER XXXII
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introduction of translations from the Arabic is comparatively free from
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CHAPTER XXXIII
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CHAPTER XXXIV
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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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