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Michael Scot
THIS 38 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE The History of Magic and Experimental Science V4, by Lynn Thorndike. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766144399.
38 pages, Paperback
Published September 10, 2010
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Lynn Thorndike
159 books16 followersLynn Thorndike was an American historian of medieval science and alchemy.
He was the brother of the psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike and of scholar Ashley Horace Thorndike.
He was the brother of the psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike and of scholar Ashley Horace Thorndike.
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April 9, 2021
As I often ask: how do you assign a one dimensional star rating to an academic reference book? This is a standard work on influential 12th Century scholar and possible wizard Michael Scot. Warning: there are many minute analyses of surviving manuscripts, mentions of Scot by other scholars, and lengthy excepts in Latin (in which language he of course wrote.)
That said, it is interesting to read anyway. Lynn Thorndike is best know for his monumental work "History of Magic and Experimental Science." Scot is dealt with in that work, but this was published later with the benefit of further discoveries.
For those interested in Scot let me also refer you to J. Wood Brown's 1897 "An Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael Scot" which predates Thorndike's by 60 years. Again, it is assumed you are fluent in the Latin of Medieval scholarship for certain excerpts, but the book is also a good read in my opinion.
There is a copy --with dust jacket! -- available on abebooks at this minute (4/2021) but it's $388. I got my copy from the local university which was in decent condition but as usual battered by generations of students who care nothing for keeping books in good condition and compound their evil by underlining passages in ballpoint pen.
That said, it is interesting to read anyway. Lynn Thorndike is best know for his monumental work "History of Magic and Experimental Science." Scot is dealt with in that work, but this was published later with the benefit of further discoveries.
For those interested in Scot let me also refer you to J. Wood Brown's 1897 "An Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael Scot" which predates Thorndike's by 60 years. Again, it is assumed you are fluent in the Latin of Medieval scholarship for certain excerpts, but the book is also a good read in my opinion.
There is a copy --with dust jacket! -- available on abebooks at this minute (4/2021) but it's $388. I got my copy from the local university which was in decent condition but as usual battered by generations of students who care nothing for keeping books in good condition and compound their evil by underlining passages in ballpoint pen.
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