A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2): During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era — John Shaqi
A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2): During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our EraThorndike, Lynn
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A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2): During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era
Thorndike, Lynn
Magic -- History; Science -- History
5. ANCIENT APPLIED SCIENCE AND MAGIC: VITRUVIUS,
HERO, AND THE GREEK ALCHEMISTS 182
6. PLUTARCH’S ESSAYS 200
7. APULEIUS OF MADAURA 221
8. PHILOSTRATUS’S LIFE OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA 242
9. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ATTACKS UPON SUPERSTITION:
CICERO, FAVORINUS, SEXTUS EMPIRICUS, LUCIAN 268
10. SPURIOUS MYSTIC WRITINGS OF HERMES, ORPHEUS, AND
ZOROASTER 287
11. NEO-PLATONISM AND ITS RELATIONS TO ASTROLOGY AND
THEURGY 298
12. AELIAN, SOLINUS, AND HORAPOLLO 322
BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
FOREWORD 337
13. THE BOOK OF ENOCH 340
14. PHILO JUDAEUS 348
15. THE GNOSTICS 360
16. THE CHRISTIAN APOCRYPHA 385
17. THE RECOGNITIONS OF CLEMENT AND SIMON MAGUS 400
18. THE CONFESSION OF CYPRIAN AND SOME SIMILAR STORIES 428
19. ORIGEN AND CELSUS 436
20. OTHER CHRISTIAN DISCUSSION OF MAGIC BEFORE AUGUSTINE 462
21. CHRISTIANITY AND NATURAL SCIENCE: BASIL, EPIPHANIUS,
AND THE PHYSIOLOGUS 480
22. AUGUSTINE ON MAGIC AND ASTROLOGY 504
23. THE FUSION OF PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN THOUGHT IN
THE FOURTH AND FIFTH CENTURIES 523
BOOK III. THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
24. THE STORY OF NECTANEBUS, OR THE ALEXANDER LEGEND
IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES 551
25. POST-CLASSICAL MEDICINE 566
26. PSEUDO-LITERATURE IN NATURAL SCIENCE 594
27. OTHER EARLY MEDIEVAL LEARNING: BOETHIUS, ISIDORE,
BEDE, GREGORY 616
28. ARABIC OCCULT SCIENCE OF THE NINTH CENTURY 641
29. LATIN ASTROLOGY AND DIVINATION, ESPECIALLY IN THE
NINTH, TENTH, AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES 672
30. GERBERT AND THE INTRODUCTION OF ARABIC ASTROLOGY 697
31. ANGLO-SAXON, SALERNITAN AND OTHER LATIN MEDICINE
IN MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE NINTH TO THE TWELFTH CENTURY 719
32. CONSTANTINUS AFRICANUS (c. 1015-1087) 742
33. TREATISES ON THE ARTS BEFORE THE INTRODUCTION OF
ARABIC ALCHEMY 760
34. MARBOD 775
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