A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Lynn Thorndike

330. Pliny, too (XXI, 88), states that trefoil is poisonous itself and

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to be used only as a counter-poison. [819] XIV, 491; a good example of the power of suggestion. [820] XIV, 498. [821] XIV, 502. [822] XIV, 505. [823] XIV, 517. [824] XIV, 567ff. [825] I, 305-412. [826] _Galen_ in PW. [827] I, 325-6. [828] XVII B, 212 and 834. [829] Partic. 6, Kühn, XIV, 253. [830] Kühn, XIV, 255. [831] These passages all come from the 24th _Particula_ of Maimonides’ _Aphorisms_, which is devoted especially to marvels:—“Incipit particula xxiiii continens aphorismos dependentes a miraculis repertis in libris medicorum,” from an edition of the _Aphorisms_ dated 1489 and numbered IA.28878 in the British Museum. The same section contains still other marvels from the works of Galen. [832] Kühn, VI, 832-5. [833] VI, 833. [834] XVI, 222-23. [835] I, 53. [836] _Coeli status_, or ἡ κατάστασις. X, 593-96, 625, 634, 645, 647-48, 658, 662, 685, 737, 759-60, 778, 829, etc. [837] X, 688; XIII, 544; XIV, 285. [838] XII, 356. [839] XIV, 298. [840] XI, 798. [841] II, 26-28. [842] XIX, 529-30. [843] XIX, 534-73. [844] IX, 794. [845] IX, 901-2. [846] IX, 904. [847] IX, 908-10. [848] IX, 913. [849] IX, 922. [850] IX, 935. [851] Kühn, XIX, 22-345. Plutarch, _Opera_, ed. Didot, _De placitis philosophorum_, pp. 1065-1114; in _Plutarch’s Miscellanies and Essays_, English translation, 1889, III, 104-92. The wording of the two versions differs somewhat and in Galen’s works it is divided simply into 37 chapters, whereas in Plutarch’s works it is divided into five books and many more chapters. [852] XIX, 320-21; _De plac. philos._, V, 1-2. [853] XIX, 253; _De plac. philos._, I, 8. [854] Kühn, XIX, 261-62; _De placitis philosophorum_, I, 28; “ἡ δὲ εἱμαρμένη ἐστὶν αἰθέριον σῶμα. σπέρμα τῆστῶν πάντων γενέσεως.“ [855] XIX, 333. [856] XIX, 274; _De plac. philos._, II, 19. [857] XIX, 265; _De plac. philos._, II, 5. [858] As much can hardly be said of our present day architects, whose fantastic tin cornices projecting far out from the roofs of high buildings and rows of stones poised horizontally in mid-air, with no other visible support than a plate glass window beneath, remind one forcibly and painfully of the deceits and levitations of magicians. [859] _De architectura_, ed. F. Krohn, Leipzig, Teubner, 1912, VIII, iii, 24. A recent English translation of Vitruvius is by M. H. Morgan, Harvard University Press, 1914. [860] VIII, iii, 16, 20-21, 24-5. [861] III, i. [862] V, Introduction, 3-4. [863] V, vi, 1. The wording is that of Morgan’s translation. [864] VI, i, 3-4, 9-10. [865] IX, vi, 2-3, Morgan’s translation. [866] III, Introduction, 3, ” ... There should be the greatest indignation when, as often, good judges are flattered by the charm of social entertainments into an approbation which is a mere pretence.” [867] _Idem._ [868] VI, Introduction, 5. [869] II, Introduction. Vitruvius continues, “But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. Therefore, since these advantages fail me, I shall win your approval, as I hope, by the help of my knowledge and my writings.” [870] III, Introduction, 2. [871] VII, Introduction, 1-10. [872] VI, Introduction, 2. Also IX, Introduction, where authors are declared superior to the victorious athletes in the Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian, and Nemean games. [873] VII, Introd., 11-14; IX, Introd. [874] IX, Introd., 17. [875] VII, Introd., 10. [876] VIII, iii, 27. [877] IX, vii, 7. [878] IX, Introd. [879] VII, v. [880] VII, Introd., 18. [881] V, i, 6-10. [882] X, i, 4. [883] X, vii. [884] IX, viii. [885] IX, viii, 2 and 4; X, vii, 4. [886] NH, VII, 38. [887] The work of Martin, _Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages d’Héron d’Alexandrie_, Paris, 1854, and the accounts of Hero in histories of physics and mathematics such as those of Heller and Cajori, must now be supplemented by the long article in Pauly and Wissowa, _Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft_, (1912), cols. 992-1080. A recent briefer summary in English is the article by T. L. Heath, EB, 11th edition, XIII, 378. See also Hammer-Jensen, _Ptolemaios und Heron_, in _Hermes_, XLVIII (1913), p. 224, _et seq._ The writings ascribed to Hero, hitherto scattered about in various for the most part inaccessible editions and MSS, are now appearing in a single Teubner edition, of which five vols. have appeared, 1899, 1900, 1903, 1912, 1914, including respectively, the _Pneumatics_ and _Automatic Theater_, the _Mechanics_ and _Mirrors_, the _Metrics_ and _Dioptra_, the _Definitions_ and geometrical remains, _Stereometrica_ and _De mensuris_ and _De geodaesia_. For the _Belopoiika_ or work on military engines see C. Wescher, _Poliorcétique des Grecs_, Paris,

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1. Chapter 1 2. BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE 3. 2. PLINY’S NATURAL HISTORY 41 4. 4. GALEN 117 5. 5. ANCIENT APPLIED SCIENCE AND MAGIC: VITRUVIUS, 6. 9. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ATTACKS UPON SUPERSTITION: 7. 10. SPURIOUS MYSTIC WRITINGS OF HERMES, ORPHEUS, AND 8. 11. NEO-PLATONISM AND ITS RELATIONS TO ASTROLOGY AND 9. BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT 10. 21. CHRISTIANITY AND NATURAL SCIENCE: BASIL, EPIPHANIUS, 11. 23. THE FUSION OF PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN THOUGHT IN 12. 24. THE STORY OF NECTANEBUS, OR THE ALEXANDER LEGEND 13. 27. OTHER EARLY MEDIEVAL LEARNING: BOETHIUS, ISIDORE, 14. 29. LATIN ASTROLOGY AND DIVINATION, ESPECIALLY IN THE 15. 31. ANGLO-SAXON, SALERNITAN AND OTHER LATIN MEDICINE 16. 33. TREATISES ON THE ARTS BEFORE THE INTRODUCTION OF 17. 34. MARBOD 775 18. 35. THE EARLY SCHOLASTICS: PETER ABELARD AND HUGH 19. 38. SOME TWELFTH CENTURY TRANSLATORS, CHIEFLY OF 20. BOOK V. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY 21. 57. EARLY THIRTEENTH CENTURY MEDICINE: GILBERT OF 22. 59. ALBERTUS MAGNUS 517 23. 61. ROGER BACON 616 24. 72. CONCLUSION 969 25. Introduction à l’étude de la chimie des anciens et du moyen âge, 1889. 26. 1911. Popular. 27. INTRODUCTION 28. BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE 29. Chapter 2. Pliny’s Natural History. 30. BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE 31. CHAPTER II 32. CHAPTER III 33. CHAPTER IV 34. CHAPTER V 35. CHAPTER VI 36. CHAPTER VII 37. CHAPTER VIII 38. CHAPTER IX 39. CHAPTER X 40. introduction, which may be regarded as a piquant appetizer to whet the 41. CHAPTER XI 42. CHAPTER XII 43. BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT 44. Chapter 13. The Book of Enoch. 45. BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT 46. CHAPTER XIII 47. CHAPTER XIV 48. CHAPTER XV 49. CHAPTER XVI 50. CHAPTER XVII 51. CHAPTER XVIII 52. CHAPTER XIX 53. CHAPTER XX 54. CHAPTER XXI 55. 329. When or where the nine homilies which compose his _Hexaemeron_ 56. CHAPTER XXII 57. CHAPTER XXIII 58. Chapter 24. The Story of Nectanebus. 59. CHAPTER XXIV 60. prologue which is found only in the oldest extant manuscript, a Bamberg 61. CHAPTER XXV 62. CHAPTER XXVI 63. CHAPTER XXVII 64. CHAPTER XXVIII 65. CHAPTER XXIX 66. CHAPTER XXX 67. introduction? 68. introduction, it would be a more valuable bit of evidence as to his 69. CHAPTER XXXI 70. introduction of Arabic medicine to the western world. 71. CHAPTER XXXII 72. introduction of translations from the Arabic is comparatively free from 73. CHAPTER XXXIII 74. CHAPTER XXXIV 75. introduction of Arabic alchemy, 773; 76. 106. M. A. Ruffer, _Palaeopathology of Egypt_, 1921. 77. 8. Daimon and Hero, with Excursus on Ritual Forms preserved in Greek 78. 1921. See also Thompson (1913), p. 14. 79. 99. “Phyteuma quale sit describere supervacuum habeo cum sit usus eius 80. 4838. Arsenal 981, in an Italian hand, is presumably incorrectly dated 81. 1507. See Justin Winsor, _A Bibliography of Ptolemy’s Geography_, 1884, 82. 1895. Since then I believe that the only work of Galen to be translated 83. 66. Also II, 216; XIX, 19 and 41. 84. 330. Pliny, too (XXI, 88), states that trefoil is poisonous itself and 85. 1867. In English we have _The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria_, 86. 1890. I have found that Riess, while including some of the passages 87. 53. See below, II, 220-21. 88. 1860. Greek text in PG, vol. XVI, part 3; English translation in AN, 89. 3836. Other MSS are: BN 11624, 11th century; BN 12135, 9th century; BN 90. 1888. Schanz (1905) 138, mentions only continental MSS, although there 91. introduction by A. von Premerstein, C. Wessely, and J. Mantuani 92. 177. This is not, however, to be regarded as the invention of lead

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