History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 2

Lynn Thorndike's monumental, magisterial work on western esotericism is the indispensable accoutrement of every serious library that engages the history of science, magic, or indeed thought. A monument of learning scientifically marshalled.

Volume 2's contents:

BOOK IV THE TWELFTH CENTURY
35 The Early Scholastics: Peter Abelard and Hugh of St Victor
36 Adelard of Bath
37 William of Conches
38 Some Twelfth Century Translators, Chiefly of Astrology from the Arabic
39 Bernard Silvester
40 Saint Hildegard of Bingen
41 John of Salisbury
42 Daniel of Morley and Roger of Hereford
43 Alexander Neckam on the Natures of Things
44 Moses Maimonides
45 Hermetic Books in the Middle Ages
46 Kiranides
47 Prester John and the Marvels of India
48 The Pseudo-Aristotle
49 Solomon and the Ars Notoria
50 Ancient and Medieval Dream-Books
BOOK V THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
Foreword
51 Michael Scot
52 William of Auvergne
53 Thomas of Cantimpre
54 Bartholomew of England
55 Robert Grosseteste
56 Vincent of Beauvais
57 Early Thirteenth Century Medicine: Gilbert of England and William of England
58 Petrus Hispanus
59 Albertus Magnus
I Life
II As a Scientist
III His Allusions to Magic
IV Marvelous Virtues in Nature
V Attitude Toward Astrology
60 Thomas Aquinas
61 Roger Bacon
I Life
II Criticism of and Part in Medieval Learning
III Experimental Science
IV Attitude Toward Magic and Astrology
62 The Speculum Astronomiae
63 Three Treatises Ascribed to Albert
64 Experiments and Secrets: Medical and Biological
65 Experiments and Secrets: Chemical and Magical
66 Picatrix
67 Guido Bonatti and Bartholomew of Parma
68 Arnald of Villa nova
69 Raymond Llull
70 Peter of Abano
71 Cecco d'Ascoli
72 Conclusion
Indices
General
Bibliographical
Manuscripts