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

Title: MICHAEL SCOT Author: Lynn Thorndike Publisher: NelsonCity: LondonYear: 1965 (First Edition)Binding Style: HardcoverPagination: 143Illustrated: No Book Details + Condition: Study of this alchemist, physician, and astrologer in a first edition from 1965. In overall excellent condition, with no interior markings and only slight shelfwear. Embossed stamp of former owner on front endpaper. Dust jacket is in excellent condition and remains uncut, with the original price still present. Protected with mylar plastic jacket. 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 cosmop