Chapter 2: Pliny’s Natural History

I. Its place in the history of science.
II. Its experimental tendency.
III. Pliny’s account of magic.
IV. The science of the _Magi_.
V. Pliny’s magical science.

” 3. Seneca and Ptolemy: Natural Divination and Astrology.

” 4. Galen.
I. The man and his times.
II. His medicine and experimental science.
III. His attitude toward magic.

” 5. Ancient Applied Science and Magic.

” 6. Plutarch’s Essays.

” 7. Apuleius of Madaura.

” 8. Philostratus’s _Life of Apollonius of Tyana_.

” 9. Literary and Philosophical Attacks upon Superstition.

” 10. The Spurious Mystic Writings of Hermes, Orpheus, and
Zoroaster.

” 11. Neo-Platonism and its Relations to Astrology and Theurgy.

” 12. Aelian, Solinus, and Horapollo.