Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.

On page 313 “sees no reason why divination in darkness, in a wall, or in sunlight, or by potions and incantations,” while well seems more likely 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Footnote 1477: century, fols. 156-74 has been replaced by 56-74.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

A
HISTORY OF MAGIC AND
EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE

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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