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A History of Magic, Vol. 1

by Lynn Thorndike

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Abbreviations
  3. 3List of Works Frequently Cited by Author and Date of Publication or…
  4. 4Chapter I — Introduction
  5. 5Appendix I — Some Works on Magic, Religion, and Astronomy in Babylo…
  6. 6Book I — The Roman Empire
  7. 7Foreword
  8. 8Chapter II — Pliny’s Natural History
  9. 9Chapter III — Seneca and Ptolemy: Natural Divination and Astrology
  10. 10Chapter IV — Galen
  11. 11Chapter V — Ancient Applied Science and Magic: Vitruvius, Hero, and…
  12. 12Chapter VI — Plutarch’s Essays
  13. 13Chapter VII — Apuleius of Madaura
  14. 14Chapter VIII — Philostratus’s Life of Apollonius of Tyana
  15. 15Chapter IX — Literary and Philosophical Attacks Upon Superstition:…
  16. 16Chapter X — The Spurious Mystic Writings of Hermes, Orpheus, and Zo…
  17. 17Chapter XI — Neo-Platonism and Its Relations to Astrology and Theurgy
  18. 18Chapter XII — Aelian, Solinus and Horapollo
  19. 19Book II — Early Christian Thought
  20. 20Book II | Early Christian Thought
  21. 21Chapter XIII — The Book of Enoch
  22. 22Chapter XIV — Philo Judaeus
  23. 23Chapter XV — The Gnostics
  24. 24Chapter XVI — The Christian Apocrypha
  25. 25Chapter XVII — The Recognitions of Clement and Simon Magus
  26. 26Chapter XVIII — The Confession of Cyprian and Some Similar Stories
  27. 27Chapter XIX — Origen and Celsus
  28. 28Chapter XX — Other Christian Discussion of Magic Before Augustine
  29. 29Chapter XXI — Christianity and Natural Science: Basil, Epiphanius,…
  30. 30Chapter XXII — Augustine on Magic and Astrology
  31. 31Chapter XXIII — The Fusion of Pagan and Christian Thought in the Fo…
  32. 32Book III — The Early Middle Ages
  33. 33Chapter XXIV — The Story of Nectanebus or the Alexander Legend in t…
  34. 34Chapter XXV — Post-Classical Medicine
  35. 35Chapter XXVI — Pseudo-Literature in Natural Science of the Early Mi…
  36. 36Chapter XXVII — Other Early Medieval Learning: Boethius, Isidore, B…
  37. 37Chapter XXVIII — Arabic Occult Science of the Ninth Century
  38. 38Chapter XXIX — Latin Astrology and Divination: Especially in the Ni…
  39. 39Appendix I — Some Manuscripts of the Sphere of Pythagoras or Apuleius
  40. 40Appendix II — Egyptian Days in Early Medieval Manuscripts
  41. 41Chapter XXX — Gerbert and the Introduction of Arabic Astrology
  42. 42Chapter XXXI — Anglo-Saxon, Salernitan, and Other Latin Medicine in…
  43. 43Chapter XXXII — Constantinus Africanus: C. 1015-1087
  44. 44Chapter XXXIII — Treatises on the Arts Before the Introduction of A…
  45. 45Chapter XXXIV — Marbod, Bishop of Rennes, 1035 — 1123
  46. 46Bibliographical Index

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