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 10 9 8 7
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