A History of Magic and Experimental Science, VolumeII

This is a new release of the original 1923 edition. Contents 5 BOOK IV THE TWELFTH CENTURY 9 35 The Early Scholastics: Peter Abelard and Hugh of St Victor 11 36 Adelard of Bath 22 37 William of Conches 58 38 Some Twelfth Century Translators, Chiefly of Astrology from the Arabic 74 39 Bernard Silvester 107 40 Saint Hildegard of Bingen 132 41 John of Salisbury 163 42 Daniel of Morley and Roger of Hereford 179 43 Alexander Neckam on the Natures of Things 196 44 Moses Maimonides 213 45 Hermetic Books in the Middle Ages 222 46 Kiranides 237 47 Prester John and the Marvels of India 244 48 The Pseudo-Aristotle 254 49 Solomon and the Ars Notoria 287 50 Ancient and Medieval Dream-Books 298 BOOK V THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY -1 Foreword 313 51 Michael Scot 315 52 William of Auvergne 346 53 Thomas of Cantimpre 380 54 Bartholomew of England 409 55 Robert Grosseteste 444 56 Vincent of Beauvais 465 57 Early Thirteenth Century Medicine: Gilbert of England and William of England 485 58 Petrus Hispanus 496 59 Albertus Magnus 525 I Life 529 II As a Scientist 536 III His Allusions to Magic 556 IV Marvelous Virtues in Nature 568 V Attitude Toward Astrology 585 60 Thomas Aquinas 601 61 Roger Bacon 624 I Life 627 II Criticism of and Part in Medieval Learning 638 III Experimental Science 657 IV Attitude Toward Magic and Astrology 667 62 The Speculum Astronomiae 700 63 Three Treatises Ascribed to Albert 728 64 Experiments and Secrets: Medical and Biological 759 65 Experiments and Secrets: Chemical and Magical 785 66 Picatrix 821 67 Guido Bonatti and Bartholomew of Parma 833 68 Arnald of Villa nova 849 69 Raymond Llull 870 70 Peter of Abano 882 71 Cecco d'Ascoli 956 72 Conclusion 977 Indices 993 General 993 Bibliographical 1015 Manuscripts 1035