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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 3: 2. PLINY’S NATURAL HISTORY 41

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

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I. Its Place in the History of Science 42 II. Its Experimental Tendency 53 III. Pliny’s Account of Magic 58 IV. The Science of the Magi 64 V. Pliny’s Magical Science 72

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