A
HISTORY OF MAGIC AND
EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE
VOLUME II

A
HISTORY OF MAGIC AND
EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE

DURING THE FIRST THIRTEEN CENTURIES OF OUR ERA

BY LYNN THORNDIKE

VOLUME II

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK

Copyright 1923 Columbia University Press
First published by The Macmillan Company 1923

ISBN 0-231-08795-0
Manufactured in the United States of America
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CONTENTS

BOOK IV. THE TWELFTH CENTURY
CHAPTERPAGE
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