Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variationsin hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling andpunctuation remains unchanged.
On page 313 “sees no reason why divination in darkness, in a wall, orin sunlight, or by potions and incantations,” while well seems morelikely than wall the original text is unchanged.
Footnote 1477: century, fols. 156-74 has been replaced by 56-74.
The table of contents lists the contents of volume 2 as well as volume 1.
The cover was prepared by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
A
HISTORY OF MAGIC AND
EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE
VOLUME I
DURING THE FIRST THIRTEEN
CENTURIES OF OUR ERA
BY LYNN THORNDIKE
VOLUME I
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
Copyright 1923 Columbia University Press
First published by The Macmillan Company 1923
ISBN 0-231-08794-2
Manufactured in the United States of America
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| PAGE | |||
| Preface | ix | ||
| Abbreviations | xiii | ||
| Designation of Manuscripts | xv | ||
| List of Works Frequently Cited by Author and Date ofPublication or Brief Title | xvii | ||
| CHAPTER | |||
| 1. | Introduction | 1 | |
| BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE | |||
| Foreword | 39 | ||
| 2. | Pliny’s Natural History | 41 | |
| I. | Its Place in the History of Science | 42 | |
| II. | Its Experimental Tendency | 53 | |
| III. | Pliny’s Account of Magic | 58 | |
| IV. | The Science of the Magi | 64 | |
| V. | Pliny’s Magical Science | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |