Place of Magic in the Intellectual History of Europe (1905)

This book is Volume XXIV, Number 1 of the Studies in History, Economics and Public Law series edited by the faculty of political science of Columbia University. Contents: illustrations of belief in magic in medieval and in early modern times; magic, its origins and relations to science; Pliny’s natural history; some antecedents of the belief in magic in the Roman Empire; belief in magic in the Empire; critics of magic; last century of the Empire.