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

Chapter 3: A HISTORY OF MAGIC AND EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE VOLUME II
By Lynn Thorndike
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The volume traces the entwined histories of magic, natural philosophy, and emergent experimental practices across the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, moving chapter by chapter through key medieval thinkers, translators, and texts. It examines scholastic responses to astrology and demons, the transmission of Arabic and Hermetic material into Latin, and medieval treatments of alchemy, medicine, and marvel literature. Biographical and textual studies of figures such as Abelard, Hugh of St. Victor, Adelard of Bath, Maimonides, Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, and Thomas Aquinas illuminate attitudes toward experiment, occult arts, and scripture. The narrative combines manuscript evidence, translations, and analytical chapters on technical treatises, grimoires, and dream-books.

CONTENTS

BOOK IV. THE TWELFTH CENTURY
CHAPTER PAGE
35. The Early Scholastics:
Peter Abelard and Hugh of St. Victor		 3
36. Adelard of Bath 14
37. William of Conches 50
38. Some Twelfth Century Translators,
Chiefly of Astrology from the Arabic		 66
39. Bernard Silvester; Astrology and Geomancy 99
40. Saint Hildegard of Bingen 124
41. John of Salisbury 155
42. Daniel of Morley and Roger of Hereford 171
43. Alexander Neckam on the Natures of Things 188
44. Moses Maimonides 205
45. Hermetic Books in the Middle Ages 214
46. Kiranides 229
47. Prester John and the Marvels of India 236
48. The Pseudo-Aristotle 246
49. Solomon and the Ars Notoria 279
50. Ancient and Medieval Dream-Books 290
BOOK V. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
Foreword 305
51. Michael Scot 307
52. William of Auvergne 338
53. Thomas of Cantimpré 372
54. Bartholomew of England 401
55. Robert Grosseteste 436
56. Vincent of Beauvais 457
57. Early Thirteenth Century Medicine:
Gilbert of England and William of England		 477
58. Petrus Hispanus 488
59. Albertus Magnus 517
I. Life
II. As a Scientist
III. His Allusions to Magic
IV. Marvelous Virtues in Nature
V. Attitude Toward Astrology
521
528
548
560
577
60. Thomas Aquinas 593
61. Roger Bacon 616
I. Life
II. Criticism of and Part in Medieval Learning
III. Experimental Science
IV. Attitude Toward Magic and Astrology
619
630
649
659
62. The Speculum Astronomiae 692
63. Three Treatises Ascribed to Albert 720
64. Experiments and Secrets: Medical and Biological 751
65. Experiments and Secrets: Chemical and Magical 777
66. Picatrix 813
67. Guido Bonatti and Bartholomew of Parma 825
68. Arnald of Villanova 841
69. Raymond Lull 862
70. Peter of Abano 874
71. Cecco d’Ascoli 948
72. Conclusion 969
Indices:
 General 985
 Bibliographical 1007
 Manuscripts 1027

A
HISTORY OF MAGIC AND
EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE
VOLUME II