MICHAEL SCOT by L. Thorndike - 1st, 1965 - ALCHEMY ASTROLOGY OCCULT MAGICK

Book Details + Condition: Nelson (London). First Edition, 1965. Hardcover. 143 pages, with illustrated plates. Lynn Thorndike’s famous study of this alchemist, physician, and astrologer in a first edition from 1965. From the jacket: Alchemist, physician, astrologer and divine, his insistence on experience & his allusions to experiments influenced the methods later used by Grosseteste and Roger Bacon. But he also delighted in 'adulterine arts such as the interpretation of dreams, auguries and lots'. Born in Scotland in about 1175, he is thought to have studied at Oxford, and very likely both taught and studied at the University of Paris. The earliest certain date in his cosmopolitan academic career is, however, 1217, when he translated the work of the twelfth-century astronomer Al-Bitrugi at Toledo. In his later years he became astrologer to the Emperor Frederick II, at whose request many of his works were written. As a translator Michael is now seen to have been of the greatest im