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The place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe
Chapters
10 totalTranscriber’s Note:
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CHAPTER I Illustrations of Belief in Magic in Mediæval and in Early Modern Times
CHAPTER II Magic: Its Origins and Relations to Science
CHAPTER III Pliny’s Natural History
CHAPTER IV Some Antecedents of the Belief in Magic in the Roman Empire
CHAPTER V Belief in Magic in the Empire
CHAPTER VI Critics of Magic
CHAPTER VII The Last Century of the Empire
CHAPTER VIII Conclusion
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Language
en
Duration
~3 hours (222K characters)
Series
Studies in history, economics and public law edited by the faculty of political science of Columbia University; v. 24, no. 1
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: Columbia university press, 1905.
Credits
Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2022-12-23
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
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About the author
Lynn Thorndike
1882–1965
A pioneering historian of science, magic, and medieval learning, he spent decades tracing how people once understood nature, superstition, and experiment. His work helped open up whole fields of study for later scholars.
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