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

by Lynn Thorndike

[1804] Recogs., IV, 27, and I, 30.

[1805] Recogs., IV, 29.

[1806] Dindorf, I, 282, 286-7.

[1807] Recogs., X, 55; III, 64.

[1808] Recogs., I, 70.

[1809] Recogs., I, 42 and 58; III, 12, 47, and 73; X, 54.

[1810] Recogs., I, 72.

[1811] Recogs., X, 22 and 25.

[1812] But by no means always in early Christian writings: thus Clement of Alexandria (c150-c220) in the Stromata, II, 1, asserts that the Greeks eulogize “astrology and mathematics and magic and sorcery” as the highest sciences.

[1813] In contrast to Lucian’s Menippus or Necromancy, in which the Cynic philosopher Menippus resorts to a Magus at Babylon in order to gain entrance to the lower world and question Teiresias.