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

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,