A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 2 (of 2): During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our EraThorndike, Lynn
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A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 2 (of 2): During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era
Thorndike, Lynn
Magic -- History; Science -- History
Valentin Rose reprinted the preface and also published
the conclusion in his article, “Ptolemaeus und die Schule
von Toledo,” _Hermes_ VIII (1874) 327-49. Rose also gave
a list of the authorities cited by Daniel which makes a
very large number of omissions: for example, fol. 89r,
“sicut in trismegisto repperitur” and “isidori”; fol. 90v,
Aristotle, “philosophus,” “Adultimus” (?), “Platonitus”;
fol. 91r, “Esiodus autem naturalis scientie professor omnia
dixit esse ex terra,” and so on for “tales milesius,”
Democritus, and other Greek philosophers; fol. 91v, “sicut
ab inexpugnabili sententia magni hermetis”; fol. 92r,
“audiat ysidori in libro differentiarum”; fol. 92v, “unde
astrologus ille poeta de creatione mundi ait,” and “magnus
mercurius” and “trismegistus mercurius” and “trismegistus
mercurius praedicti mercurii nepos”; fol. 97r, “Aristotelis
in libro de sensu et sensato,” “Albumaxar,” “Aristotelis
in libro de auditu naturali”; fol. 98v, “in libro de celi
et mundo”; fol. 99v, Almagest, and “Ypocrati et galieno”;
fol. 100v, “liber veneris ... quem edidit thoz grecus,” and
“aristoteles ... in libro de speculo adurenti.”
Karl Sudhoff, _Daniels von Morley Liber de naturis
inferiorum et superiorum nach der Handschrift Cod. Arundel
377 des Britischen Museums zum Abdruck gebracht_, in
_Archiv für die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der
Technik_, Band 8, 1917 (but not received at the New York
Public Library until July 8, 1921). Here is printed for the
first time the full text of Daniel’s treatise as contained
in Arundel 377, but from photographs taken years before
and apparently without further reference to the MS itself.
Also according to the following article by Birkenmajer,
Sudhoff sometimes renders the contractions and abbreviations
incorrectly. As Sudhoff’s text comes late to my hand, I
leave my references to the folios of Arundel 377 as they
are. These folios (with the exception of 88v) are marked in
Sudhoff’s text.
Alexander Birkenmajer, _Eine neue Handschrift des Liber de
naturis inferiorum et superiorum des Daniel von Merlai_, in
the same _Archiv_, December, 1920, pp. 45-51, gives some
variant readings from Berlin 387.
Dr. Charles Singer has published a brief account of Daniel
of Morley in a recent issue of _Isis_.
The article on Daniel in DNB XXXIX (1894) by A. F. Pollard
is criticized by Sudhoff for failing to mention “Roses
wichtigste Vorarbeit;” but I observe that Sudhoff himself
similarly fails to mention the publications by Halliwell and
Thomas Wright which preceded both Rose’s and his own.
[Sidenote: Defense of Arabian learning.]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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