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 very good condition, with no interior markings and slight shelfwear. Slight wear to boards, and imprint of old pencil pricing on first 2 blank pages. Dust jacket is in very good condition with slight shelfwear and remains uncut, with the original price still present. 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