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A history of magic and experimental science

A history of magic and experimental science

by Lynn Thorndike

Occult PhilosophyHermeticismModern

Chapters

100

Total Words

332,904

Reading Time

1332 min

Published

1923

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Table of Contents

1.Preface
1 min
2.BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE
1 min
3.V. Pliny's Magical Science 72
1 min
4.II. His Medicine and Experimental Science . . . 139
1 min
5.BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
1 min
6.BOOK III. THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
1 min
7.BOOK IV. THE TWELFTH CENTURY
1 min
8.BOOK V. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
1 min
9.V. Attitude Toward Astrology 577
1 min
10.IV. Attitude Toward Magic and Astrology . . . 659
3 min
11.M. Niedermann; the printing of the Twelve Experiments
4 min
12.D. B. Macdonald, L. J. Paetow, S. B. Platner, E. C. Rich-
7 min
13.CXXIV. Delia vita e delle opere di Leonardo Pisano,
19 min
14.Section XXIII, History of Medicine, London, 1913,
1 min
15.CHAPTER I
9 min
16.M. Paul Huvelin, after asserting with similar confidence
45 min
17.CI. Ptolemee, in Zeitsch. f. Assyriol. VI (1891), pp. 103-23.
1 min
18.V. Pliny's magical science.
1 min
19.III. His attitude toward magic.
1 min
20.BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE
2 min
21.CHAPTER II
1 min
22.II. Its Experimental Tendency
1 min
23.III. Pliny's Account of Magic
1 min
24.IV. The Sf-ience of the Magi
1 min
25.V. Pliny's Magical Science
1 min
26.I. Its Place in the History of Science
17 min
27.book is incomplete, and with a full
2 min
28.II. Its Experimental Tendency
7 min
29.III. Pliny's Account of Magic.
11 min
30.IV. The Science of the Magi
13 min
31.V. Pliny's Magical Science
17 min
32.chapter devoted particularly to the properties of human
26 min
33.CHAPTER III
26 min
34.I. The Man and His Times
2 min
35.III. His Attitude Toward Magic
3 min
36.I. The Man and His Times
1 min
37.I. Mueller, G. Helmreich, 1884-
33 min
38.II. His Medicine and Experimental Science
4 min
39.L. Israelson, Die materia medica 'X. 817-IQ.
36 min
40.III. His Attitude Towards Magic
26 min
41.CHAPTER V
20 min
42.V. Lippmann, Entstehung und Aus-
7 min
43.CHAPTER VI
32 min
44.I. Life and Works
1 min
45.II. Magic in the Metamorphoses
1 min
46.III. Magic in the Apology
1 min
47.I. His Life and Works
32 min
48.CHAPTER VIII
21 min
49.D. W. Thompson, Glossary of * II, 14.
20 min
50.CHAPTER IX
26 min
51.D. Rolleston, "Lucian and Medi- of Medicine, VIII, 49-58, 72-84.
2 min
52.CHAPTER X
3 min
53.chapter II (pp. I36ff.), "Jiidisch- Kuhn, XI, 798.
14 min
54.CHAPTER XI
10 min
55.I. Webb, 1909, I, 112). Mr. Webb namely, sight and hearing," is
12 min
56.MV. 2. "I, 9; VI, 6; II, II.
16 min
57.CHAPTER XII
3 min
58.chapter concerning elephants in each of his seventeen books.
17 min
59.BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
1 min
60.BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
4 min
61.CHAPTER XIII
7 min
62.IV. both Charles and Lods.
7 min
63.CHAPTER XIV
3 min
64.M. Caraccio, Filone dAlessa'ndria
1 min
65.L. H. Mills, Zarathustra, Philo,
1 min
66.L. Treitel, Philonische Studicn,
3 min
67.Chapter 9. " Reville, J., Le logos, d'apres
7 min
68.III. 7, 7-8.
8 min
69.CHAPTER XV
10 min
70.II. London, 1888, p. 115; F. G. Ken-
30 min
71.CHAPTER XVI
25 min
72.CHAPTER XVII
45 min
73.CHAPTER XVIII
13 min
74.CHAPTER XIX
40 min
75.CHAPTER XX
12 min
76.book is sufficient to solve the question. His arguments
18 min
77.CHAPTER XXI
17 min
78.V. 2.
23 min
79.CHAPTER XXII
7 min
80.part controls itself and exercises as it were a private juris-
19 min
81.XVIII. Augustini ad Orosium
5 min
82.CHAPTER XXIII
40 min
83.Chapter 24. The Story of Nectanebus.
1 min
84.CHAPTER XXIV
25 min
85.CHAPTER XXV
2 min
86.V. S. Zervos, pp. k', 172, Leipzig,
45 min
87.CHAPTER XXVI
12 min
88.chapter 64, II, 761.
25 min
89.CHAPTER XXVII
40 min
90.CHAPTER XXVIII
53 min
91.CHAPTER XXIX
2 min
92.C. Jourdain (1838), pp. 28-9.
38 min
93.CHAPTER XXX
31 min
94.Chapter 48, vol. II, p. 259.
6 min
95.CHAPTER XXXI
35 min
96.CHAPTER XXXII
29 min
97.CHAPTER XXXIII
23 min
98.CHAPTER XXXIV
70 min
99.Book II passim
27 min
100.Book II passim
12 min

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