Bygone beliefs
Subtitle: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought.
Publisher: Rider
Published: 1920
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Pythagoras.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.; Alchemy.; Magic.; Superstition.; Cambridge Platonists.
Table of contents: title: Some characteristics of mediaeval thought; Pythagoras and his philosophy; Medicine and magic; Superstitions concerning birds; The powder of sympathy; a curious medical superstition; The belief in talismans ceremonial magic in theory and practice; Architectural symbolism; The quest of the philosopher's stone; The Phallic element in alchemical doctrine; Roger Bacon: an appreciation; The Cambridge Platonists.