A History of Magic and Experimental Science Vol. 1: During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A History of Magic and Experimental Science Vol. 1: During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era<br><br>Galen: the Man and His Times in The Scientific Monthly January 1922; Early Christianity and Natural Science in The Biblical Review July 1922; The Latin Pseudo Aristotle and Medieval Occult Science in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology April 1922 and notes on Daniel of Morley and Gundissalinus in The English His torical Review. For permission to make use of these pre vions publications in the present work I am indebted to the editors of the periodicals just mentioned and also to the editors of The Columbia University Studies in History Economics and Public Law The American Historical Re view Classical Philology The M onist Nature The Philo sophical Review and Science. The form however of these previous publications has often been altered in embodying them in this book and taken together they constitute but a fraction of it. Book I greatly amplifies the account of magic in the Roman Empire contained in my doctoral dis sertation. Over ten years ago I prepared an account of magic and science in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries based on material available in print in libraries of this country and arranged topically but I did not publish it as it seemed advisable to supplement it by study abroad and of the manuscript material and to adopt an arrangement by authors. The result is Books IV and V of the present work.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.