A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2)
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- During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era
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1. Front matter2. A HISTORY OF MAGIC AND EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE3. Introductory material4. VOLUME I5. CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION6. BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE7. CHAPTER II PLINY’S NATURAL HISTORY8. CHAPTER II PLINY’S NATURAL HISTORY (continued 2)9. CHAPTER III SENECA AND PTOLEMY: NATURAL DIVINATION AND ASTROLOGY10. CHAPTER IV GALEN11. CHAPTER IV GALEN (continued 2)12. CHAPTER V ANCIENT APPLIED SCIENCE AND MAGIC: VITRUVIUS, HERO, AND THE GREEK ALCHEMISTS13. CHAPTER VI PLUTARCH’S ESSAYS14. CHAPTER VII APULEIUS OF MADAURA15. CHAPTER VIII PHILOSTRATUS’S LIFE OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA16. CHAPTER IX LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ATTACKS UPON SUPERSTITION: CICERO, FAVORINUS, SEXTUS EMPIRICUS, AND LUCIAN17. CHAPTER X THE SPURIOUS MYSTIC WRITINGS OF HERMES, ORPHEUS, AND ZOROASTER18. CHAPTER XI NEO-PLATONISM AND ITS RELATIONS TO ASTROLOGY AND THEURGY19. CHAPTER XII AELIAN, SOLINUS AND HORAPOLLO20. BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT21. CHAPTER XIII THE BOOK OF ENOCH22. CHAPTER XIV PHILO JUDAEUS23. CHAPTER XV THE GNOSTICS24. CHAPTER XVI THE CHRISTIAN APOCRYPHA25. CHAPTER XVII THE RECOGNITIONS OF CLEMENT AND SIMON MAGUS26. CHAPTER XVIII THE CONFESSION OF CYPRIAN AND SOME SIMILAR STORIES27. CHAPTER XIX ORIGEN AND CELSUS28. CHAPTER XX OTHER CHRISTIAN DISCUSSION OF MAGIC BEFORE AUGUSTINE29. CHAPTER XXI CHRISTIANITY AND NATURAL SCIENCE: BASIL, EPIPHANIUS, AND THE PHYSIOLOGUS30. CHAPTER XXII AUGUSTINE ON MAGIC AND ASTROLOGY31. CHAPTER XXIII THE FUSION OF PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN THOUGHT IN THE FOURTH AND FIFTH CENTURIES32. BOOK III. THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES33. CHAPTER XXIV THE STORY OF NECTANEBUS OR THE ALEXANDER LEGEND IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES[2293]34. CHAPTER XXV POST-CLASSICAL MEDICINE35. CHAPTER XXVI PSEUDO-LITERATURE IN NATURAL SCIENCE OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES36. CHAPTER XXVII OTHER EARLY MEDIEVAL LEARNING: BOETHIUS, ISIDORE, BEDE, GREGORY THE GREAT37. CHAPTER XXVIII ARABIC OCCULT SCIENCE OF THE NINTH CENTURY38. CHAPTER XXIX LATIN ASTROLOGY AND DIVINATION: ESPECIALLY IN THE NINTH, TENTH, AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES39. CHAPTER XXX GERBERT AND THE INTRODUCTION OF ARABIC ASTROLOGY40. CHAPTER XXXI ANGLO-SAXON, SALERNITAN, AND OTHER LATIN MEDICINE IN MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE NINTH TO THE TWELFTH CENTURY41. CHAPTER XXXII CONSTANTINUS AFRICANUS: C. 1015-1087.42. CHAPTER XXXIII TREATISES ON THE ARTS BEFORE THE INTRODUCTION OF ARABIC ALCHEMY43. CHAPTER XXXIV MARBOD, BISHOP OF RENNES, 1035—112344. GENERAL INDEX45. GENERAL INDEX (continued 2)