A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2) / During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era

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A systematic survey charts how magical practices and empirical inquiry overlapped from late antiquity through the medieval era, using careful manuscript and textual evidence to trace the transmission of ancient sources and the debates they provoked. Organized by author and topic, the study examines divination, astrology, alchemy, natural magic, and early experimental techniques alongside medicine, philosophy, and theology, showing institutional contexts such as universities and libraries and the shifting boundaries between superstition and scholarly investigation. It combines close readings of primary texts with historiographical commentary to map intellectual continuities, controversies, and methodological change across the period.

BOOK III. THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

Chapter 24.	The Story of Nectanebus.
Chapter 25.	Post-Classical Medicine.
Chapter 26.	Pseudo-Literature in Natural Science of the Early Middle Ages.
Chapter 27.	Other Early Medieval Learning.
Chapter 28.	Arabic Occult Science of the Ninth Century.
Chapter 29.	Latin Astrology and Divination, Especially in the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Centuries.
Chapter 30.	Gerbert and the Introduction of Arabic Astrology.
Chapter 31.	Anglo-Saxon, Salernitan, and other Latin Medicine in Manuscripts from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century.
Chapter 32.	Constantinus Africanus.
Chapter 33.	Treatises on the Arts before the Introduction of Arabic Alchemy.
Chapter 34.	Marbod.