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LYN THORNDIKE

Summer 1952

Lynn THORNDIKE

LYNN THOPNDIKE was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on 24 July, i882, the youngest of three brothers whose careers have been closely linked with Columbia University, although in divergent areas of intellectual endeavor. While his two elder brothers distinguished themselves in the fields of English literature and Educational Psychology respectively, LYNN THORNDIKE has won distinction and fame in the annals of historical sciences both in Europe and in America.

From his earliest student days, LYNN THORNDIKE dedicated himself with rare zeal and devotion to historical studies. Educated as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1902, and an honorary L.H.D. in 1930, LYNN THORNDIKE went on to do graduate study in medieval history at Columbia University. There he came under the stimulating direction of JAMES HARVEY

ROBINSON, the pioneering spirit in the developing interest in intellectual history in the United States (i). At Columbia, LYNN THORNDIKE received the degree of Master of Arts in 1903, and the doctorate in history in 1905. The subject of his doctoral dissertation, The Place of Magic in the Intellectual History of Europe, which he was later to link closely with the development of experimental science, continued from that time forward to absorb his interest and to provide the chief focus for his major researches.

Between 1907 and i909, Dr THORNDIKE was instructor in history at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. His next position was at Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

(I) In this regard see the review by LYNN THORNDIVE of J. H. Robinson, The human comedy. An appreciation. (New York: Harper and Bros., 1937), in The Journal of Modern History, 9: 367-369, 1937.

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There he rose in succeeding years from the rank of instructor to professor of history, and remained until I924. In that year he was invited to join the Faculty of Political Science at Columbia University, as Professor of History, a post in which he has had a magnificent opportunity to fulfill his earlier promise as teacher and productive research scholar. Although officially retired in I950, he is still continuing with unabated activity and vigor, both at Columbia University and in European libraries, his productive researches and his association with his current and former graduate students, a number of whom are represented by papers in the present volume.

As a teacher, Dr THORNDIKE'S influence has extended far beyond the confines of his own classroom or lecture halls through his very substantial textbooks, The History of Medieval Europe; and A Short History of Civilization; as well as through his more detailed and scholarly works, particularly the monumental History of Magic and Experimental Science. His History of Medieval Europe provided the first standard American textbook in the field of medieval studies and gave impetus to their development in the United States. In his latest revision of that history in 1949, Dr THORNDIKE greatly expanded the sections dealing with the development of scientific thought in western Europe. He thus emphasized the importance that he has always attached to a broadening of the scope of historical study. A similar emphasis in his Short History of Civilization perhaps accounts for its continued popularity and use throughout the country. But even more important for the development of scholarly endeavor are his original studies in the area of The History of Magic and Experi- mental Science, already in six volumes, covering the first sixteen centuries of our era, and now in process of being carried forward into the seventeenth; as well as his publication of numerous texts, translations, reviews, and studies in the field of intellectual history.

Dr THORNDIKE's name and works are particularly well known to European scholars, and his contributions to scientific and historical studies occupy an important place in their libraries as well as in the curricula of their most eminent universities. As early as 1928, Dr THORNDIKE was honored by election to the Comite Academie International d'Histoire des Sciences; and in

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1946, he was made a corresponding Fellow of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Dr THORNDIKE'S influence upon his own graduate students is impressive and inspiring. Several of them are now contributing works of distinction in the history of science as well as in the more traditional areas of historical study.

Throughout his career as teacher, research scholar, and active participant in the American Historical Association, the Mediaeval Academy of America, of which he was one of the Charter Fellows, the Philosophical Society, and in the History of Science Society, Dr THORNDIKE has continuously worked to promote the close relationship and cooperation between the history of science and the more traditional historical fields. To this end he participated actively in the first conference devoted to the History of Science held in conjunction with the meetings of the American Historical Association in Cleveland in December of i919 (2). And he has continued actively since then to support and to convey to his students this community of interests. Between 1928 and 1929

he served as President of the History of Science Society and has never faltered in his unstinting endeavors to further the society's activities. To readers of Isis and Osiris, to both of which he has been a faithful and prolific contributor, the recounting of Dr THORNDIKE's achievements scarcely needs expression. The accompanying list of his writings also speaks for itself.

May their author long continue thus to enlighten, to enrich, and to guide us, his debtors.

PEARL KIBRE.

(2) See the report by LYNN THORNDIKE on " The Conference at Cleveland on the History of Science," Science, new series, 51: 193-194, 20 February, 1920.

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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF LYNN THORNDIKE

1905-1952

The following list of writings has been copied with some slight re- arrangement from the carefully prepared and systematically maintained bibliography of his publications kept for his own use by Dr THORNDIKE (3). An earlier published list which was included in a Bibliography of the Faculty of Political Science, Columbia University, i830-I930, New York: Columbia University Press, 1931, pp. 285-289, is here incorporated for greater completeness. For economy of space abbreviations for some frequently cited references have been utilized. They are as follows:

AHR American Historical Review AMH Annals of Medical History BIHM Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns

Hopkins University Col. UP Columbia University Press CUQ Columbia University Quarterly JHI Journal of the History of Ideas PSQ Political Science Quarterly

1905

The place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe (Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, vol. xxiv, no. i). Iio pp. New York: Col. UP: Ph. D. thesis, Columbia.

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The attitude of Origen and Augustine toward magic. Monist., i8: 46-66.

1910

The scientific presentation of history. Popular Science Monthly, 76: 170-i8i.

1913

A Roman astrologer as a historical source: Julius Firmicus Maternus. Classical Philology, 8: 415-435.

(3) All items have been carefully verified by Miss CONSTANCE WINCHELL, Reference Librarian at Columbia University, and her assistants.

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1914 Roger Bacon and experimental method in the middle ages. Philosophical

Review, 23: 271-298.

1915

Some medieval conceptions of magic. Monist, 25: 107-139. Natural science in the middle ages. Popular Science Monthly, 87:

271 -29I. Roger Bacon and gunpowder. Science, 42: 799-800. Adelard of Bath and the continuity of universal nature. Nature, 94:

6i6-617. Review of Roger Bacon Essays, collected and edited by A. G. LITTLE

(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914). AHR, 20: 386-388.

I9i6

Measuring Euripides. (Cleveland) Chapter Alpha of Ohio, Phi Beta Kappa, College for Women Section. 2i pp.

The true Roger Bacon. AHR, 2I: 237-257, 468-480.

1917 The history of medieval Europe. xx, 682 pp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin

Co. (Published in England as Medieval Europe, its development and civilization. xix, 665 pp. London: G. G. Harrap and Co. I920; Revised editions, I928; i949).

Will it be medieval history's turn next? Ohio State University Bulletin, History Teachers' Journal, 22: 226-235.

Review of: Walter Libby, An introduction to the history of science, (Boston, 1917). AHR, 23: I25-l26.

19i8 Review of: W. T. Sedgwick and H. W. Tyler, A short history of science,

(New York: Macmillan Co., 1917). AHR, 23: 609-6io.

1919

Peter of Abano : Medieval scientist. American Historical Association, Annual Report for I919 (printed 1923), I: 315-326.

1920

The Conference at Cleveland on the History of Science. Science, 5I: 193-194.

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1921

The Washington Conference on the History of Science. Science, 53: 122

Europe revisited. Historical Outlook, I2: 69-73. The (Roger) Bacon manuscript. Scientific American, I24: 509.

1922

Galen: The man and his times. Scientific Monthly, I4: 83-93. Another shot at Mr. Wells. Historical Outlook, I3: 233-235.

The Latin Pseudo-Aristotle and medieval occult science. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 2I: 229-258.

Early Christianity and natural science. The Biblical Review, 7: 332-356.

Daniel of Morley. English Historical Review, 37: 540-544.

Reviews of: Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi, Fasc. V, Secretum secretorum, edited by Robert Steele (Oxford University Press, 1920). Philosophical Review, 3I: 99-100. Aldo Mieli, Gli scienziati Italiani... (Rome, 1921). AHR, 27: 337-338. Medieval contributions to modern civilization, edited by F. J. C. Hearnshaw (London, 1921). Isis, 4: 352-354.

1923

A history of magic and experimental science during the first thirteen centuries of our era. Vol. I-II, xl, 835 pp.; vi, 1036 pp. New York: Macmillan Co. (New edition, 1929); Col. UP (1943).

The historical background of modern science. Scientific Monthly, i6: 488-497.

Unnoticed manuscripts of Gundissalinus, De divisione philosophiae. English Historical Review, 38: 243-244.

Review of: W. C. Curtis, Science and human affairs, (New York, 1922). Educational Review, 65: 134-13 5.

1924

Disputed dates, civilization and climate and traces of magic in the scientific treatises ascribed to Theophrastus. In Essays on the History of Medicine Presented to Karl Sudhoff, (edited by C. Singer and H. E. Sigerist). London, 1924, 73-86.

L'Encyclopedie and the History of Science. Isis, 6: 36i-386. Review of: Peter de Roo, Material for a history of Pope Alexander VI,

his relatives and his time. Vols. I-V (New York, 1924). Common- weal, I: 156-159; i84-186.

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I925

The study of western science of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Medical Life, 32: II 7-I27.

Reviews of: C. H. Haskins, Studies in the History of Mediaeval science, (Cambridge, I924). AHR, 30: 344-346. Marc Bloch, Les rois thaumaturges, (Paris and Strasbourg, 1924). AHR, 30: 584-585- Sylvia Benians, From Renaissance to Revolution, (New York, 1923). PSQ, 40: I46-I50.

1926

A short history of civilization. xiv, 6i9 pp. New York: F. S. Crofts and Co. (New edition, 1948).

The Arithmetic of Jehan Adam, 1475 A. D., American Mathematical Monthly, 33: 24-28.

Public readings of new works in mediaeval universities. Speculum, I: 101-103.

A note on a note to a note, Speculum, I: 103-104. Medicine versus law in late medieval and Medicean Florence. Romanic

Review, I7: 8-31. Another treatise by Barnabas de Riatinis of Reggio. Isis, 8: 285-286. Leonardus Qualea. Isis, 8: 336-338. The manuscript text of the Cyrurgia of Leonard of Bertipaglia. Isis,

8: 264-284- Relations of the inquisition of Peter of Abano and Cecco d'Ascoli. Spe-

culum, I: 338-343^ The De constitutions mundi of John Michael Albert of Carrara. Romanic

Review, I7: 193-2I6. Lippus Brandolinus De Comparatione Reipublicae et Regni: An un-

published treatise of the late fifteenth century in comparative political science. PSQ, 4I: 413-435-

Yet another note in reply to a further note on a note. Speculum, I: 445-447-

Review of: E. Emerton, Humanism and tyranny, (Cambridge, 1925). PSQ, 4I: 629-632.

1927

Marsilio Ficino und Pico della Mirandola und die Astrologie. Zeitschrift fir Kirchengeschichte, 46 (n.f. 9): 584-585.

Some minor medical works of the Florentine Renaissance. Isis, 9: 29-43. The blight of pestilence on early modern civilization. AHR, 32: 455-474. The survival of mediaeval intellectual interests into early modern times.

Speculum, 2 147-I59-

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Some unpublished renaissance moralists and philosophers of the second half of the fifteenth century. Romanic Review. I8: 114-133.

Alfodhol and Almadel: Hitherto unnoted mediaeval books of magic in Florentine manuscripts. Speculum, 2: 326-331.

Some thirteenth century classics. Speculum, 2: 374-384.

Measurement of mountain altitudes. Isis, 9: 425-426.

Review of: The Cambridge medieval history. Vol. V: The Contest of Empire and Papacy, (New York, 1926). Speculum, 2: 86-90.

Rev. R. H. Murray, The political consequences of the reformation, (Boston, 1926). PSQ, 42: 121-124.

Paul Van Dyke, Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, (New York, I926). PSQ, 42: 284-286. Montague Summers, The history of witchcraft and demonology. The Nation, I24: 43-44-

1928

Public recitals in universities of the fifteenth century. Speculum, 3: 104-105.

An inverted palimpsest. Speculum, 3: I05.

Andalo di Negro, Profacius Judaeus and the Alphonsine tables. Isis, IO: 52-56.

A historical sketch of the relationship between history and science. Scientific Monthly, 26: 342-345.

Sanitation, baths and street-cleaning in the middle ages and renaissance. Speculum, 3: I92-203.

Blasius of Parma (Biagio Pelacani). Archeion, 9: 177-190.

The clocks of Jacopo and Giovanni de'Dondi. Isis, IO: 360-362. Tacuinum (Taqwin). Question no. io. Isis, IO: 489-490. Bisticius (or Bistichius) of Florence. Romanic Review, I9: 244-249.

A fifteenth-century autopsy by Bernard Tornius. AMH, IO: 270-277.

Reviews of: George Sarton, Introduction to the history of science, Vol. I (Carnegie Institution of Washington, I927). AHR, 33: 363-366. C. R. S. Harris, Duns Scotus, Vol. I-II (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, I927). The Journal of Philosophy, 25: 80-83. C. H. Haskins, The renaissance of the twelfth century, (Cambridge, I927)- PSQ, 43: I2I-I22.

Civilization and its destiny (H. F. Osborn, Man rises to Parnassus, I928; E. Huntington, The human habitat, I927; R. B. Dixon, The building of cultures, I928; E. M. East, Heredity and human affairs, I927). Yale Review, I7: 8I3-8i6.

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The Opus maius of Roger Bacon, a translation by R. B. Burke, Vols. I-II (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1928). Speculum, 3: 600-602.

1929

Science and thought in thefifteenth century, xii, 387 pp. New York: Col. UP. Alfodhol de Merengi again. Speculum, 4: 90. A personal memorandum by Conrad Buitzruss. Speculum, 4: 88-89. Magic and medicine. Medical Life, 36: 148-155. Some Vatican Manuscripts of Pest tractates. Sudhoffs Archiv fur Ge-

schichte der Medizin, 22: 199-200. Of the cylinder called the Horologe of Travellers. Isis, I3: 5I-52. Vatican Latin manuscripts in the History of Science and Medicine. Isis,

13: 53-102. Giovanni da Fontana. Isis, I3: 103; I4: 221-222.

John Louis Vives: His attitude to learning and to life. In Essays in Intellectual History Dedicated to James Harvey Robinson, (New York, 1929), 329-342 -

Reviews of: W. R. Newbold, The cipher of Roger Bacon, (edited by R. C. Kent, Philadelphia, 1928); together with R. B. Burke's translation of the Opus maius, 1928, Vol. I-II. AHR, 34: 317-319. R. Ehrenberg, Das Zeitalter der Fugger, partial translation by H. M. Lucas under the title, Capital and finance in the age of the renaissance, (New York, 1928). PSQ, 44: 137-138. J. B. Bury, The invasion of Europe by the barbarians, (edited by F. J. C. Hearnshaw, London, 1928). AHR, 34: 564-566. Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi, Fasc. IX; De retardations accidentium senectutis cum aliis opusculis de rebus medicinalibus, edited by A. G. Little and E. Withington (Oxford University Press, 1928). Speculum, 4: 354-355. Idem. Isis, 13: I I 0- I II. Recueil des plus c'lebres astrologues ... par Symon de Phares, edited by E. Wickersheimer, (Paris, 1929). Speculum, 4: 358-36i. The civilization of the renaissance (Lectures by J. W. Thompson, G. Rowley, F. Schevill, G. Sarton, Chicago University Press, 1929). AHR, 35: 656-657- G. L. Kittredge, Witchcraft in old and New England, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, I929). Isis, I3: 138-141.

1930

Alchemy. Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, (New York, vol. I), 6i6-6i8.

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Roger Bacon. Loc. cit., (New York, vol. II), 383. The historical background. In Intelligent Philanthropy, (edited by E.

Faris, F. Laune, A. J. Todd, Chicago University Press, 1930), 25-5 I.

Seven salts of Hermes. Isis, I4: i87-i88.

Prospectus for a Corpus of Medieval Scientific Literature in Latin. Isis, I4: 368-384-

Franciscus Florentinus or Paduanus. Mdlanges Mandonnet, 2: 353-369. A Pest tractate before the Black Death. Sudhoffs Archiv fur Geschichte

der Medizin, 23: 346-356. On the use of the word, Kardaja. Isis, I4: 420-421.

Reviews of: G. Muller, Aus mittelenglischen Medizintexten: Die Prosa- rezepte des Stockholmer Miszellankodex X, go (Kblner Anglistische Arbeiten... Band X, Leipzig, I929). Isis, I4: 436-437. W. C. Dampier Dampier-Whetham, A history of science, (Cam- bridge University Press, 1929). AHR, 35: 583-584.

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Advice from a physician to his sons (Latin text). Speculum, 6: I 10-114. Translation of a letter from a physician of Valencia to his two sons

studying at Toulouse 13i5 A. D. AMH, new series, 3: 17-20. An unidentified work by Giovanni da' Fontana: Liber de omnibus rebus

naturalibus. Isis, I5: 31-46. Giovanni Garzoni on ruling a city. PSQ, 46: 277-280.

An anonymous treatise in six books on Metaphysics and Natural Philo- sophy. The Philosophical Review, 40: 317-340.

All the world's a chess-board (Latin text). Speculum, 6: 46i-465. Note on a commentary on the Almagest ascribed to John Rasel but really

by George of Trebizond. Isis, i6: 447. Giovanni Garzoni on the office of Prince. PSQ, 46: 589-592. Reviews of: C. C. Cutler, Greyhounds of the sea: the story of the American

Clipper Ship, (New York, 1930). Isis, I5: 38i. J. W. Thompson, The Middle ages, 300-I500, Vol. I-II (New York, I93i). AHR, 36: 793-795. Preserved Smith, A history of modern culture, Vol. I (New York, I930). International Journal of Ethics, 4I: 357-362.

I932

Calculator. Speculum, 7: 22I-230. Rufinus: A forgotten botanist of the thirteenth century. Isis, i8: 63-76.

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Reviews of: J. Milla's Vallicrosa, Assaig d'historia de les idees fisiques i matematiques a la Catalunya medieval, Vol. I, (Barcelona, 1931).

Isis, i8: 203-204.

Maximilian Rudwin, The devil in legend and literature, (Chicago, I931). Isis, i8: 208.

G. A. Dorsey, Man's own show: Civilization, (New York and London, 1931). International Yournal of Ethics, 42: 332-333.

I933

Notes on some Latin manuscripts at WolfenbUttel in natural science, medicine, alchemy, and astrology. Speculum, 8: I75-I79.

Reviews of: A. Delatte, La Catoptromancie grecque et ses dirives, (Liege, I932). Speculum, 8: 397. A. C. Brodeur, The pageant of civilization, (New York, I93I),

American Jfournal of sociology, 39: I2I.

I934

A history of magic and experimental science (History of Science Publica- tions, new series, iv), Vols. III-IV, Fourteenth to Fifteenth centuries, xxvi, 827 pp.; xviii, 767 pp. New York: Col.UP.

Giovanni da Fontana again. Isis, 20: 335-336. Pietro Ranzano (d. I492). Query No. 36. Isis, 20: 444-445. Note on Rufinus. Isis, 20: 445. A glimpse of seventeenth century medicine. AMH, new series, 6:

I24-I27.

Check-list of rotographs in the history of natural and occult science. Isis, 2I: I45-I68.

A mediaeval sauce-book. Speculum, 9: i83-I90.

Another glimpse of medicine in the seventeenth century: Beughem's bibliography. AMH, New series, 6: 2I9-223.

Note on John Tolhopf alive in I485. Isis, 22: 229.

I935

Note-That Agostino Nifo's " De falsa Diluvii Prognosticatione " was not published until December 24, I5I9. Romanic Review, 26: II8-I21.

Magic and science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. CUQ, I7: I32-I40.

Review of A. J. Toynbee, A study of history, Vol. I-III, (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1934). 7ournal of Modern History, 7: 3I5-3I7.

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1936

Magic, witchcraft, astrology, and alchemy. Cambridge Medieval History, (Cambridge, England: Macmillan Co.), Vol. VIII: The Close of the Middle Ages, Chapter 22, pp. 660-687; Bibliography, pp. 970-98i.

Coelestinus's summary of Nicolas Oresme on marvels : A fifteenth century work printed in the sixteenth century. Osiris, I: 629-635.

Peter of Abano and the inquisition. Speculum, II: I32-I33.

Conrad Heingarter in Zurich manuscripts, especially his medical advice to the Duchess of Bourbon. BIHM, 4: 8i-87.

John Tolhopf again. Isis, 24: 4I9-42I.

Little known names of medical men in Vatican Palatine manuscripts. AMH, New series, 8: I45-I59.

Another manuscript of Leonard of Bertipaglia and John de Tracia. BIHM, 4: 257-260.

The first edition of Nifo's " De falsa diluvii prognosticatione." Romanic Review, 27: 27-28.

Sanitation in French towns. Speculum, II: 272. Astronomy at Paris around 1485 and 1360. Humanisme et Renaissance,

3: i65-i68. Law advertising in medieval manuscripts. PSQ, 5I: 270-272. Unfamiliar medical works by known and anonymous authors in Vatican

Palatine Latin manuscripts. AMH, new series, 8: 297-305.

Alchemical writings in Vatican Palatine and certain other continental Latin manuscripts. Speculum, II: 370-383.

Some later medieval Latin medical manuscripts at Bern and Prag. AMH, new series, 8: 427-432.

Joannes Gazulus. Query 62. Isis, 25: 454-455. Johann Virdung of Hassfurt again. Isis, 25: 363-37I. Paravicus: a misprint, not a translator. Isis, 26: 33-36. Epitomes of Pliny's Natural History in the fifteenth century. Isis, 26: 39. Milan manuscripts of Giovanni de'Dondi's astronomical clock and of

Jacopo de'Dondi's discussion of tides. Archeion, i8: 308-3I7. The debate for precedence between medicine and law: Further examples

from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. Romanic Review, 27: I85-190-

Reviews of: H. E. Barnes, The history of western civilization, Vols. I-II, (New York, I935). AHR, 4I: 5I5-5I9.

G. Zilboorg, The medical man and the witch during the renaissance, (Baltimore, I935). AHR, 4I: 620. Jean Destrez, La pecia dans les manuscrits universitaires du XIIIe et du XIVe siecle, (Paris, I935). Isis, 25: I55-I57.

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J. J. Walsh, Education of the founding Fathers of the Republic, (New York, I935)- Isis, 25: I73-I74.

Reviews of: Martin Muller, Die Quaestiones naturales des Adelardus von Bath, (Miinster i. W., 1934). Isis, 25: 464-465.

I937

A catalogue of incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin, (with Pearl Kibre), xvi, 926 cols., Cambridge, Mass.: The Mediaeval Academy of America.

Date of the translation by Ermengaud Blasius of the Work on the quadrant by Profatius Judaeus. Isis, 26: 306-309.

Introduction and Canon by Dalmatius to tables of Barcelona for the years I36i-I433 A. D. Isis, 26: 3I0-320.

Faust and Johann 'Virdung of Hassfurt. Isis, 26: 32I.

Copyists' final jingles in mediaeval manuscripts. Speculum, I2: 268. The Secrets of Hermes. Isis, 27: 53-62.

Two more alchemical manuscripts. Speculum, 12: 370-374.

Reviews of: Michel de Bouard, Une nouvelle encyclopidie midiivale: Le Compendium philosophiae, (Paris, I936). Speculum, I2: II4-II5.

E. Wickersheimer, Dictionnaire biographique des me'decins en France au moyen dge, (Paris; I936). Speculum, I2: 399-400.

Richard Salomon, Opicinus de Canistris: Weltbild und Bekenntnisse eines Avignonesischen Klerikers des I4. Jahrhunderts, (London, I936). Speculum, I2: 4I4-4I5-

James Harvey Robinson, The human comedy. An Appreciation, (New York, I937). Journal of Modern History, 9: 367-369.

I938

Charles Homer Haskins (I870-I937). Isis, 28: 53-56. Alchemy during the first half of the sixteenth century. Ambix, 2: 26-37. Astronomy according to the Jews. Isis, 29: 69-7I. A bibliography composed around I300 A. D. of works in Latin on alchemy,

geometry, perspective, astronomy, astrology, and nigromancy. Zentralblatt fur Bibliothekswesen, Jahrgang 55, Heft 8: 357-360.

Guillaume de Gandavo (Notes et documents). Humanisme et Renaissance. 5: 443-

A study in the analysis of complex scientific manuscripts, Sloane 3457: an important alchemical manuscript. Isis, 29: 377-392.

Johannes Scultetus in the sixteenth century. Isis, 29: 408-409.

Reviews of: L. C. MacKinney, Early medieval medicine, (Baltimore, I937). AHR, 43: 589-59I.

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Medieval and historiographical essays in honor of James Westfall Thompson, (University of Chicago Press, I938). Isis, 29: I42-I43. F. R. Johnson, Astronomical thought in Renaissance England, (Balti- more, i937). Journal of Modern History, IO: 4i8-42I.

I939

Additional incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin. Speculum, I4: 93-105.

A hitherto unnoticed criticism of astrology: Liber de reprobatione iudi- ciorum astrologiae. Isis, 3I: 68-78.

1940

Three tracts on food in Basel manuscripts. BIHM, 8: 355-369. Little known medical works and authors in Basel manuscripts. AMH,

third series, 2: 280-290.

An anonymous work on poisons addressed to Charles of Orleans. The Romanic Review, 3I: 239-24I.

Elementary and secondary education in the middle ages. Speculum, I5: 400-408.

Arabic numerals as represented in a Basel manuscript. Isis, 32: 30I-303. A weather record for I399-1406 A. D. Isis, 32: 304-323. Both this

and the preceding were published only in I949. Reviews of James Corbett, Catalogue des manuscrits alchimiques latins,

(Brussels, I939). Speculum, i5: I00-I03.

C. W. Jones, Bedae pseudepigrapha, scientific writings falsely attributed to Bede, (Cornell University Press, I939). Speculum, i5: II4-II5. J. W. Thompson, The literacy of the laity in the Middle Ages, (Ber- keley, University of California Press, I939). Speculum, i5: I25-I26. S. de Ricci and W. J. Wilson, Census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Vols. I-III, (New York, I935-1940). AHR, 45: 857-859.

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A history of magic and experimental science, Vol. V-VI, The sixteenth century (History of Science Publications, new series, iv). xxii, 695 pp.; Xviii, 766 pp. New York. Col.UP.

Invention of the mechanical clock about 127i A. D. Speculum, i6: 242-243.

Review of: Margaret B. Stillwell, Incunabula in American libraries, (New York, 1940). AHR, 47: 104-105.

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Peace aims: a specific proposal. PSQ, 57: 128-129. A possible reference to Syphilis before the discovery of America. BIHM,

II: 474- Translations of works of Galen from the Greek by Peter of Abano.

Isis, 33: 649-653- Other astronomical tables beginning in the year 136i. Isis, 34: 6a-7b. More incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin (with Pearl Kibre).

Speculum, I7: 342-366. Pliny and Liber de presagiis tempestatum. Isis, 34: 28a. Duhem's " Disciple of Bacon" identified with John Peckham. Isis,

34: 28b.

I943

Renaissance or Prenaissance. JHI, 4: 65-74. Buridan's Questions on the Physiognonmy ascribed to Aristotle. Spe-

culum, 18: 99-I03.

Answer to Query No. 82. John de Casali, fl. I346-1375. Isis, 34: 214- Another Virdung manuscript. Isis, 34: 29I-293. Frederick Barry (i876-1943). Isis, 34: 339-340. With Millas Vallicrosa, Astronomical tables beginning in I36i. Isis,

34: 4Io. Observaciones de Lynn Thorndike acerca de las tablas cronologicas de

Italia. Archejon, 25: 54-55. Review of: Four treatises of Theophrastus von Hohenheim called Paracelsus.

Translated from German with introductory essays by C. L. Temkin, G. Rosen, G. Zilboorg, H. E. Sigerist (John Hopkins, I941). Ger- manic Review, I8: 15 1-I52.

'944

University records and life in the middle ages (Records of Civilization Sources and Studies, A. P. Evans, Editor, no xxxviii). xvii, 476 pp. and map. New York. Col. UP.

Robertus Anglicus. Isis, 34: 467-469. Manuscripts of the writings of Peter of Abano. BIHM, I5: 201-219.

A lesson from Leclerc. Isis, 35: 29.

Review of: P. 0. Kristeller, The philosophy of Marsilio Ficino, (New York, I943). Isis, 35: 33-34-

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The herbal of Rufinus: edited from the unique manuscript, assisted by Francis S. Benjamin, Jr. (Corpus of mediaeval scientific texts) xliii, 476 pp. Chicago University Press.

More manuscripts of the Dragmaticon and Philosophia of William of Conches. Speculum, 20: 84-87.

Alfodhol and Almadel once more. Speculum, 20: 88-9i. Dates in intellectual history: the fourteenth century. YHI, Supplement,

no. I: I-53- David Eugene Smith. Speculum, 20: 38i-382. The Latin translations of the astrological tracts of Abraham Avenezra.

Isis, 35: 293-302. Peter of Limoges on the Comet of I299. Isis, 36: 3a-6b. Franco de Polonia and the Turquet. Isis, 36: 6a-7b.

1946

Aegidius of Lessines on comets. Studies and Essays in the History of Science and Learning Offered in Homage to George Sarton, New York, pp. 403-414-

Robertus Anglicus and the introduction of demons and magic into com- mentaries upon the Sphere of Sacrobosco. Speculum, 21: 241-243.

Communication (anent " The Problem of the common man in early medieval Europe "). AHR, 5i: 802-803.

Translations of works of Galen from the Greek by Niccolo da Reggio (c. 1308-1345). Byzantina Metabyzantina, I: 213-235.

John of St Amand on the magnet. Isis, 36: 156-157. Dalmatius again. Isis, 36: 158.

'947

The problem of the composite manuscript. (Miscellanea Giovanni Mercati, vol. VI, " 1946 "), Studi e Testi, no. 126: 93-104. Citt'a del Vaticano.

More light on Cecco d'Ascoli. The Romanic Review, 37: 293-306. Blasius the Franciscan and his works on computus. Isis, 37: 46a-47b. Johann Virdung of Hassfurt: dates of birth and death. Isis, 37: 74a-b. Who wrote Quadrans Vetus? Isis, 37: I5oa-i53b. Traditional medieval tracts concerning engraved astrological images.

Melanges Auguste Pelzer, Louvain, pp. 217-274. Review of: The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More, edited by Elizabeth

F. Rogers, (Princeton University Press, I947). PSQ, 62: 623-624.

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A short history of civilization, 2nd edition. xiii, 75I pp. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.

Some little known astronomical and mathematical manuscripts. Osiris, 8: 4I -72.

Astronomical observations at Paris from I312 to i315. Isis, 38: 200-205. Nicholas de Heybech of Erfurt. Isis, 39: 5ga-60b. Thomas Werkworth on the motion of the eighth sphere. Isis, 39: 2I2-215. Peter of Modena. Isis, 39: 239. A manuscript collection on Baths. " Festschrift zum 8o Geburtstag

Max Neuberger," Wiener Beitrage z. Geschichte der Medizin, 2: 46 I -463 .

Reviews of: Leopold of Austria, 'Li compilacions de le science des estoiles,' edited by Francis J. Carmody, (University of California, 1947). Speculum, 23: 129-130.

George Sarton, Introduction to the history of science, Vol.111 (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1947). AHR, 54: io6-iio.

'949

The Sphere of Sacrobosco and its commentators. x, 496 pp. University of Chicago Press.

The history of medieval Europe. 3rd revised edition. viii, 750 pp., maps and illustrations. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Foreword. Science and Civilization, edited by R. C. Stauffer, pp. ix-xiii. (University of Wisconsin Press).

Some unfamiliar aspects of medieval science, b0c. cit., pp. 3i-64. More Abrahamismus. Isis, 40: 34-35. Visierkunst, Ars visorandi, or Stereometry. Isis, 40: io6-107. Check-list of reproductions, chiefly in the history of natural and occult

science. Progress of Medieval and Renaissance Studies in the United States and Canada, Bulletin 20: 6-42.

Concerning John Canonicus. Isis, 40: 347-349. Peter of Monte Alcino's treatise on comets. Isis, 40: 350. Peter of Limoges. Isis, 40: 360.

1950

Latin treatises on comets between I238 and I368 A. D., iX, 275 pp. The University of Chicago Press.

Medieval interest in intellectual history. Speculum, 25: 94-99.

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Stereometry before I250. Isis, 4I: 48. Martin of Bitonto. Isis, 4I: 52. Richard Kunetius. Isis, 4I: 52-53. Concerning astronomical books published soon after Copernicus' De

revolutionibus. Isis, 4I: 53. Pre-Copernican astronomical activity. Proceedings of the American

Philosophical Society, 94: 321-326. Peter of Modena again. Isis, 4I: I96. A type of Arabic or Chaldean numerals, with Martin Levey. Isis, 41:

I96-197. Giovanni Bianchini in Paris manuscripts. Scripta mathematica, i6:

5-12, I69-I80. Latin and Italian grammar in the year 1486. The Romanic Review,

4I: 274-275. The date of Aegidius de Tebaldis' translation of Haly Abenragel, ' De

iudiciis astrologiae,' The Modern Language Review, 45: 517. The tables of Barcelona of the fourteenth century. Isis, 4I: 283-285.

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The Cursus Philosophicus before Descartes. Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Science, I4: I6-24.

Manuscript versus Incunabulum. Mdlanges d'Histoire du Moyen Age dediis I la Mimoire de Louis Halphen, pp. 693-699.

Sexagenarium. Isis, 42: 130-133. Newness and craving for novelty in seventeenth century science and

medicine. JHI, I2: 584-598. Astronomical and chronological calculations at Newminster in 1428.

Annals of Science, 7: 275-283. Further incipits of medieval scientific writings in Latin. Speculum, 26:

673-695. Prediction of eclipses in the fourteenth century. Isis, 42: 301-302.

1952

A record of eclipses for the years 1478 to I5o6. Isis, 43: 252-256. A John Peckham manuscript. Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 45:

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