CONTENTS PAGE
PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
1. SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDIAEVAL THOUGHT . . . . . . . . . 1
2. PYTHAGORAS AND HIS PHILOSOPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3. MEDICINE AND MAGIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4. SUPERSTITIONS CONCERNING BIRDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5. THE POWDER OF SYMPATHY: A CURIOUS MEDICAL SUPERSTITION . . 47
6. THE BELIEF IN TALISMANS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
7. CEREMONIAL MAGIC IN THEORY AND PRACTICE . . . . . . . . . . 87
8. ARCHITECTURAL SYMBOLISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
9. THE QUEST OF THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE. . . . . . . . . . . .121
10. THE PHALLIC ELEMENT IN ALCHEMICAL DOCTRINE. . . . . . . . .149
11. ROGER BACON: AN APPRECIATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
12. THE CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193


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PAGE 46. Symbolic Alchemical Design from Mutus Liber (1677) .
PLATE: 25, to face p.176
47. Symbolic Alchemical Design illustrating the Work of Woman,
from MAIER's Atalanta Fugiens . . . ,, 26, ,, 178
48. Symbolic Alchemica Design, Hermaphrodite,
from MAIER's Atalanta Fugiens. . ,, 27, ,, 180
49. ROGER BACON presenting a Book to a King, from a Fifteenth Century
Miniature in the Bodleian Library, Oxford . . .,, 28, ,, 184
50. ROGER BACON, from a Portrait in Knole Castle . . ,, 29, ,, 188