A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1

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 thought. A monument of learning scientifically marshalled.

Volume 1's contents:

Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Designation of Manuscripts
List of Works Frequently Cited by Author and Date of Publication or Brief Title
Chapter 1 Introduction
BOOK I THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Foreword
2 Pliny's Natural History
I Its Place in the History of Science
II Its Experimental Tendency
III Pliny's Account of Magic
IV The Science of the Magi
V Pliny's Magical Science
3 Seneca and Ptolemy : Natural Divination and Astrology
4 Galen
I The Man and His Times
II His Medicine and Experimental Science
III His Attitude Toward Magic
5 Ancient Applied Science and Magic: Vitruvius; Hero; and the Greek Alchemists
6 Plutarch's Essays
7 Apuleius of Madaura
8 Philostratus's Life of Appollonius of Tyana
9 Literary and Philosophical Attacks upon Superstition: Cicero; Favorinus; Sextus Empiricus; Lucian
10 Spurious Mystic Writings of Hermes; Orpheus; and Zoroaster
11 Neo-Platonism and Its Relations to Astrology and Theurgy
12 Aelian; Solinus; and Horapollo
BOOK II EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
Foreword
13 The Book of Enoch
14 Philo Judaeus
15 The Gnostics
16 The Christian Apocrypha
17 The Recognitions of Clement and Simon Magus
18 The Confession of Cyprian and Some Similar Stories
19 Origen and Celsus
20 Other Christian Discussion of Magic Before Augustine
21 Christianity and Natural Science: Basil; Epiphanius; and the Physiologus
22 Augustine on Magic and Astrology
23 The Fusion of Pagan and Christian Thought in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries
BOOK III THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
24 The Story of Nectanebus; or the Alexander Legend in the Early Middle Ages
25 Post-Classical Medicine
26 Pseudo-Literature in Natural Science
27 Other Early Medieval Learning : Boethius; Isidore; Bede; Gregory
28 Arabic Occult Science of the Ninth Century
29 Latin Astrology and Divination; Especially in the Ninth; Tenth; and Eleventh Centuries
30 Gerbert and the Introduction of Arabic Astrology
31 Anglo-Saxon; Salernitan and Other Latin Medicine in Manuscripts from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century
32 Constantinus Africanus (1015-1087)
33 Treatises on the Arts Before the Introduction of Arabic Alchemy
34 Marbod
Indices
General
Bibliographical
Manuscripts