Lynn Thorndike
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American historian of medieval science and alchemy
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- PhD History Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lynn Thorndike was an American historian of medieval science and alchemy. He was the son of a clergyman, Edward R. Thorndike, and the younger brother of Ashley Horace Thorndike, an American educator and expert on William Shakespeare, and Edward Lee Thorndike, known for being the father of modern educational psychology.
Lynn Thorndike's Published Works
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Published Works
- A History of Magic and Experimental Science (369)
- Calculator (1932) (126)
- The Sphere of Sacrobosco and its commentators (1949) (108)
- Whatever Was, Was Right (1956) (103)
- The Experimental Determination of the Intensities of Infra‐Red Absorption Bands II. Measurements on Ethylene and Nitrous Oxide (1947) (84)
- The Experimental Determination of the Intensities of Infra-Red Absorption Bands. III. Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Ethane (1947) (84)
- Life in the Middle Ages. (Book Reviews: University Records and Life in the Middle Ages) (1944) (52)
- The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More (1947) (49)
- A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin, 1963 (1968) (47)
- Science and thought in the fifteenth century : studies in the history of medicine and surgery, natural and mathematical science, philosophy and politics (1929) (45)
- Elementary and Secondary Education in the Middle Ages (1940) (44)
- The True Place of Astrology in the History of Science (1955) (37)
- A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin, 1963 (1963) (29)
- Sanitation, Baths, and Street-Cleaning in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1928) (27)
- Some Remarks on the Question of the Originality of the Renaissance (1943) (24)
- The Latin Translations of the Astrological Tracts of Abraham Avenezra (1944) (23)
- Science and Thought in the Fifteenth Century (1931) (23)
- Galen: The Man and His Times (23)
- The Latin Translations of Astrological Works by Messahala (1956) (22)
- The Place of Magic in the Intellectual History of Europe (1970) (21)
- A history of magic and experimental science. Volume III (21)
- A Weather Record for 1399-1406 A.D. (1940) (18)
- I. A Daily Weather Record Continued from 1 September 1400 to 25 June 1401 (1966) (17)
- More Manuscripts of the Dragmaticon and Philosophia of William of Conches (1945) (16)
- A History of Magic and Experimental Science during the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era. (1923) (16)
- Daniel of Morley (1922) (14)
- Robertus Anglicus (1943) (14)
- The Herbal of Rufinus. (1946) (13)
- Further Consideration of the Experimenta, Speculum Astronomiae, and De Secretis Mulierum Ascribed to Albertus Magnus (1955) (13)
- Invention of the Mechanical Clock about 1271 A.D. (1941) (12)
- Humanism and Tyranny, Studies in the Italian Trecento (1926) (11)
- Indirect Measurement of Spectral Line Breadth in the Infra‐Red (1948) (10)
- Vatican Latin Manuscripts in the History of Science and Medicine (1929) (9)
- The Blight of Pestilence on Early Modern Civilization (1927) (9)
- Peter of Limoges on the Comet of 1299 (1945) (9)
- Mediaeval Magic and Science in the Seventeenth Century (1953) (8)
- A Roman Astrologer as a Historical Source: Julius Firmicus Maternus (1913) (8)
- History Of Magic And Experimental Science Vol.5 (1941) (8)
- Notes on Some Less Familiar British Astronomical and Astrological Manuscripts (1959) (7)
- Alchemy During the First Half of the Sixteenth Century (1938) (7)
- Date of the Translation by Ermengaud Blasius of the Work on the Quadrant by Profatius Judaeus (1937) (6)
- Roger Bacon and Experimental Method in the Middle Ages (1914) (6)
- The Horoscope of Barbarossa's First-Born (1959) (6)
- L'Encyclopedie and the History of Science (1924) (6)
- Albumasar in Sadan (1954) (6)
- Notes on Some Astronomical, Astrological and Mathematical Manuscripts of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (1957) (5)
- Thomas Werkwoth on the Motion of the Eighth Sphere (1948) (5)
- Buridan's Questions on the Physiognomy Ascribed to Aristotle (1943) (5)
- Franco de Polonia and the Turquet (1945) (5)
- Eclipses in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (1957) (5)
- Newness and Craving for Novelty in Seventeenth-Century Science and Medicine (1951) (5)
- CORRELATION BETWEEN PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS GRADES (1946) (5)
- CONSILIA AND MORE WORKS IN MANUSCRIPT BY GENTILE DA FOLIGNO (1959) (5)
- Unde versus (1955) (5)
- Latin treatises on comets between 1238 and 1368 A.D. (1950) (5)
- 'All the World's a Chess-Board' (1931) (4)
- Three Astrological Predictions (1963) (4)
- Computus (1954) (4)
- A Mediaeval Sauce-Book (1934) (4)
- Arabic Numerals as Represented in a Basel Manuscript (1940) (4)
- Translations of Works of Galen from the Greek by Peter of Abano (1942) (4)
- Notes upon Some Medieval Latin Astronomical, Astrological and Mathematical Manuscripts at the Vatican: Part I (1956) (4)
- A Hitherto Unnoticed Criticism of Astrology: Liber de reprobatione iudiciorum astrologiae (1939) (4)
- Notes upon Some Medieval Astronomical, Astrological and Mathematical Manuscripts at Florence, Milan, Bologna and Venice (1959) (4)
- More Copyists' Final Jingles (1956) (4)
- Public Readings of New Works in Mediaeval Universities (1926) (3)
- Some Letters of George Sarton (1922-1955) (1957) (3)
- Little Known Medical Works and Authors in Basel Manuscripts (1940) (3)
- More Manuscripts of Thomas of Cantimpre, De Naturis Rerum (1963) (3)
- A medical manuscript of the fourteenth century. (1955) (3)
- Oresme and Fourteenth Century Commentaries on the Meteorologica (1954) (3)
- De Complexionibus (1958) (3)
- Prospectus for a Corpus of Medieval Scientific Literature in Latin (1930) (3)
- Advice from a Physician to His Sons (1931) (3)
- Copyists' Final Jingles in Mediaeval Manuscripts (1937) (3)
- THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. (1921) (3)
- The Clocks of Jacopo and Giovanni de' Dondi (1928) (3)
- The True Roger Bacon, II (3)
- Chiromancy in Mediaeval Latin Manuscripts (1965) (3)
- Astronomical Observations at Paris from 1312 to 1315 (1948) (3)
- The Pseudo-Galen, De Plantis (with Latin text of chapters on stones and those of chemical interest) (1963) (3)
- Robertus Anglicus and the Introduction of Demons and Magic into Commentaries upon the Sphere of Sacrobosco (1946) (3)
- A short history of civilization (1927) (3)
- More Questions on the Meteorologica (1955) (3)
- Of the Cylinder Called the Horologe of Travelers (1929) (3)
- A Study in the Analysis of Complex Scientific Manuscripts Sloane 3457: An Important Alchemical Manuscript (1938) (3)
- Relations of the Inquisition to Peter of Abano and Cecco d'Ascoli (1926) (3)
- History of Magic and Experimental Science, The Sixteenth Century (1941) (2)
- Augustine to Galileo: The History of Science A.D. 400-1650. A. C. Crombie (1954) (2)
- John of St. Amand on the Magnet (1946) (2)
- Further Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (1942) (2)
- Additional Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (1939) (2)
- Johann Virdung of Hassfurt Again (1936) (2)
- More Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (1942) (2)
- The Attitude of Origen and Augustine Toward Magic. (2)
- Epitomes of Pliny's Natural History in the Fifteenth Century (1936) (2)
- Check-List of Rotographs in the History of Natural and Occult Science (1934) (2)
- The Survival of Mediaeval Intellectual Interests into Early Modern Times (1927) (2)
- Book Review:The Human Comedy. As Devised and Directed by Mankind Itself James Harvey Robinson (1937) (2)
- Chaucer and the Mediaeval Sciences. Walter Clyde Curry (1960) (2)
- Milan Manuscripts of Giovanni de’ Dondi’s astronomical clock and of Jacopo de’ Dondi’s discussion of tides (1936) (2)
- Alchemical Writings in Vatican Palatine and Certain other Continental Latin Manuscripts (1936) (2)
- THE CONFERENCE AT CLEVELAND ON THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. (1920) (2)
- Paravicus: A Misprint, Not a Translator (1936) (2)
- Iohannes de Luna Theutonicus, about A.D. 1305 (1965) (2)
- Another Glimpse of Medicine in the Seventeenth Century: Beughem’s Bibliography (1934) (2)
- Some Medieval Conceptions of Magic. (2)
- Peter of Abano and another commentary on the Problems of Aristotle. (1955) (2)
- Words in Theophilus (1965) (2)
- History of Magic and Experimental Science, The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (1936) (2)
- Latin manuscripts of works by Rasis at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. (1958) (2)
- Fifteenth century patients. (1954) (2)
- Introduction and Canon by Dalmatius to Tables of Barcelona for the Years 1361-1433 A.D. (1937) (2)
- An Anonymous Treatise in Six Books on Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy (1931) (2)
- Some Minor Medical Works of the Florentine Renaissance (1927) (2)
- A Fifteenth Century Autopsy by Bernard Tornius (1928) (2)
- ROGER BACON AND GUNPOWDER. (1915) (2)
- The Arithmetic of Jehan Adam, 1475 a.d. (1)
- Another Treatise by Barnabas de Riatinis of Reggio (1926) (1)
- Giovanni Garzoni on Ruling a City (1931) (1)
- Notes on Some Latin Manuscripts at Wolfenbuttel in Natural Science, Medicine, Alchemy, and Astrology (1933) (1)
- Book Review:The Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino Paul Oskar Kristeller, Virginia Conant (1944) (1)
- The Manuscript Text of the Cyrurgia of Leonard of Bertipaglia (1926) (1)
- A History of Modern Culture: Vol. I: The Great Renewal, 1543-1687. Preserved Smith (1931) (1)
- Some Medieval Texts on Colours (1959) (1)
- Unnoticed Manuscripts of Gundissalinus De Divisione Philosophiae (1923) (1)
- Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America (1959) (1)
- Seven Salts of Hermes (1930) (1)
- Charles Homer Haskins (1938) (1)
- A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy and Religion (1930) (1)
- Little Known Names of Medical Men in Vatican Palatine Manuscripts (1936) (1)
- THREE TEXTS ON DEGREE OF MEDICINES. (DE GRADIBUS). (1964) (1)
- A Record of Eclipses for the Years 1478 to 1506 (1952) (1)
- Peter of Abano and the Inquisition (1936) (1)
- Astronomy according to the Jews (1938) (1)
- Prediction of Eclipses in the Fourteenth Century (1951) (1)
- Another Virdung Manuscript (1943) (1)
- Coelestinus's Summary of Nicolas Oresme on Marvels: A Fifteenth Century Work Printed in the Sixteenth Century (1936) (1)
- A Case of Snake-Bite from the Consilia of Gentile da Foligno (1961) (1)
- Some medieval medical manuscripts at the Vatican. (1953) (1)
- Other Astronomical Tables Beginning in the Year 1361 (1942) (1)
- Law Advertising in Medieval Manuscripts (1936) (1)
- Some Little Known Astronomical and Mathematical Manuscripts (1948) (1)
- The Secrets of Hermes (1937) (1)
- Book Review:Die Quaestiones Naturales des Adelardus von Bath Martin Muller (1936) (1)
- Who Wrote Quadrans Vetus? (1947) (1)
- The Date of Aegidius de Tebaldis' Translation of Haly Abenragel, "De Iudiciis Astrologiae" (1950) (1)
- Blasius the Franciscan and His Works on Computus (1947) (1)
- Giovanni Garzoni on the Office of Prince (1931) (1)
- Other Texts on Colours (1960) (1)
- The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon@@@The Cipher of Roger Bacon (1)
- Mediaeval Interest in Intellectual History (1950) (1)
- A summary catalogue of reproductions 296-383 of medieval manuscripts collected by Lynn Thorndike. (1960) (1)
- Public Recitals in Universities of the Fifteenth Century (1928) (1)
- A History of Magic and Experimental Science. Volumes V and VI: The Sixteenth Century. (1941) (1)
- Visierkunst, Ars Visorandi, or Stereometry (1949) (1)
- Two Other Passages De Complexionibus (1963) (1)
- Frederick Barry (1876-1943) (1943) (1)
- Astronomical and chronological calculations at Newminster in 1428 (1951) (1)
- Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi, Fasc, IX, De retardatione accidentium senectutis cum aliis opusculis de rebus medicinalibus. A. G. Little , E. Withactenus (1929) (1)
- Introduction to the History of Science. By George Sarton, Associate in the History of Science, Carnegie Institution of Washington. Volume I., From Homer to Omar Khayyam. (Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington; Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins. 1927. Pp. xi, 839. $10.00.) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1943) (0)
- Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy (1939) (0)
- Notes upon Some Medieval Latin Astronomical, Astrological and Mathematical Manuscripts at the Vatican: Part II (1958) (0)
- Sexagenarium (1951) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1930) (0)
- Bedae Pseudepigrapha: Scientific Writings Falsely Attributed to Bede. C. W. Jones (1940) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1928) (0)
- Peace AIMS: A Special Proposal (1942) (0)
- The Cambridge Medieval History, edited by J. R. Tanner, C. W. Previté-Orton, and Z. N. Brooke: Volume V, Contest of Empire and Papacy , New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. (0)
- Robert Belle Burke, transl., The Opus Maius of Roger Bacon, a Translation . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1928. 2 vols. Pp. xiii + 840. (1928) (0)
- Back Matter (1950) (0)
- 'Li compilacions de le science des estoiles'. Leopold of Austria , Francis J. Carmody (1948) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1942) (0)
- CHAPTER III. PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY (1905) (0)
- Book Review:Witchcraft in Old and New England George Lyman Kittredge (1929) (0)
- Mark Graubard, Astrology and Alchemy: Two Fossil Sciences . New York: Philosophical Library, 1953. Pp. xi, 382. (1954) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1936) (0)
- Rufinus: A Forgotten Botanist of the Thirteenth Century (1932) (0)
- Some Thirteenth-Century Classics (1927) (0)
- Notes & Correspondence (1960) (0)
- Liber de Similitudinibus et Exemplis (MS. Berne 293, Fols. 1r-75v) (1957) (0)
- Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England. A Study of the English Scientific Writings from 1500 to 1645. Francis R. Johnson (1938) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1931) (0)
- Sanitation in French Towns (1936) (0)
- A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volumes VII and VIII: The Seventeenth Century. (1960) (0)
- Adelard of Bath and the Continuity of Universal Nature (1915) (0)
- A MEDIEVAL TREATISE ON MAN (DE HOMINE) (1964) (0)
- Stars and Showers at Balloon Altitudes (1950) (0)
- n-D SCATTERING AT 1.4 MEV (1950) (0)
- An Inverted Palimpsest (1928) (0)
- Twenty-Sixth Critical Bibliography of the History and Philosophy of Science and of the History of Civilization (To March 1, 1929) (1929) (0)
- A Note on a Note to a Note (1926) (0)
- Four British manuscripts of scientific works by Pierre d'Ailly (1962) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1948) (0)
- Bibliographical Notes (1954) (0)
- Book Review:Christianity's Contribution to Civilization Charles David Eldridge (1929) (0)
- The Historical Background of Modern Science (1923) (0)
- A Cosmic-Ray Particle of Charge Two or Greater (1949) (0)
- Censorship by the Sorbonne of Science and Superstition in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century (1955) (0)
- Book Review:Education of the Founding Fathers of the Republic James J. Walsh (1936) (0)
- Science and Religion in a Manuscript at Graz (1963) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1949) (0)
- Book Review:Mediaeval Contributions to Modern Civilisation F. J. C. Hearnshaw (0)
- More manuscripts of Leonard of Bertipaglia and John de Tracia. (1953) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1948) (0)
- Alfodhol and Almadel: Hitherto Unnoted Mediaeval Books of Magic in Florentine Manuscripts (1927) (0)
- Some Later Medieval Latin Medical MSS at Bern and Prag (1936) (0)
- Unfamiliar Medical Works by Known and Anonymous Authors in Vatican Palatine Latin MSS (1936) (0)
- The Pageant of Civilization.Arthur G. Brodeur (1933) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1929) (0)
- Notes & Correspondence (1955) (0)
- Your Career in Physics (1955) (0)
- Notes & Correspondence (1950) (0)
- Roger Bacon Essays. Contributed by various Writers on the Occasion of the Commemoration of the Seventh Centenary of his Birth. Collected and edited by A. G. Little. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1914. Pp. 425.) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1934) (0)
- Notes & Correspondence (1954) (0)
- CHAPTER V. BELIEF IN MAGIC IN THE EMPIRE (1905) (0)
- Brookhaven accelerator time. (1974) (0)
- The History of Science Society (1924) (0)
- Some Alchemical Manuscripts at Bologna and Florence (1956) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1944) (0)
- Notes & Correspondence (1957) (0)
- Alfodhol and Almadel Once More (1945) (0)
- Uncatalogued Texts in Ms. All Souls College 81, Oxford (1959) (0)
- Book Review:Medieval and Historiographical Studies in Honor of James Westfall Thompson James Lea Cate, Eugene N. Anderson (1938) (0)
- Notes & Correspondence (1962) (0)
- A MEDICAL MANUSCRIPT AT FLORENCE. (PALAT. 811). (1963) (0)
- A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy and Religion. By William Cecil Dampier Dampier-Whetham, M.A., F.R.S. (Cambridge: University Press. 1929. Pp. xxi, 514. 18 s) (1930) (0)
- Two More Alchemical Manuscripts (1937) (0)
- Faust and Johann Virdung of Hassfurt (1937) (0)
- The Tables of Barcelona of the XIVth Century (1950) (0)
- A Glimpse of Seventeenth Century Medicine (1934) (0)
- Opera Hactenus Inedita Rogeri Baconi. (0)
- Book Review:The Devil in Legend and Literature Maximilian Rudwin (1932) (0)
- Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy (1961) (0)
- A Personal Memorandum by Conrad Buitzruss 1422-1427 (1929) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1934) (0)
- Fasc. IX, De retardatione accidentium senectutis cum aliis opusculis de rebus medicinalibus. Rogeri Baconi , A. G. Little , E. Withington (1929) (0)
- Book Review:Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries. Annotated Lists and Guides. Vol. I Paul Oskar Kristeller (1960) (0)
- Translation of a Letter from a Physician of Valencia to His Two Sons Studying at Toulouse 1315 A.D.* Latin original in ms Sloane 3124, fols. 74r-77r of the British Museum. For the Latin text see Speculum, January, 1931. (1931) (0)
- Book Review:The Adventure of Mankind. Eugen Georg, Robert Bek-Gran (1933) (0)
- Nota de IX Paribus (1959) (0)
- Some Unpublished Minor Works Bordering on Science Written in the Late Fifteenth Century (1964) (0)
- Notes & Correspondence (1953) (0)
- A highly specialized Medieval library (1953) (0)
- When medicine was in flower. (1959) (0)
- Book Review:Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the American Clipper Ship Carl C. Cutler (1931) (0)
- Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America (1957) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1947) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1928) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1950) (0)
- A Third Translation by Salio (1957) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1930) (0)
- A Study of History. Arnold J. Toynbee (1935) (0)
- Lippus Brandolinus de Comparatione Reipublicate et Regni: An Unpublished Treatise of the Late Fifteenth Century in Comparative Political Science (1926) (0)
- Jean de Jandun on Gravitation (1958) (0)
- Memoirs (1945) (0)
- The Literacy of the Laity in the Middle Ages. J. W. Thompson (1940) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1926) (0)
- Lynn Thorndike's History of Magic and Experimental Science@@@History of Magic and Experimental Science (1959) (0)
- A Singular Example of Mediaeval Instruction (1959) (0)
- Book Review:What is European Civilization? And What Is Its Future? Wilhelm Haas (1930) (0)
- An Alchemical Manuscript: Klagenfurt, Bischoöfl. Bibl. XXIX.d.24 (1963) (0)
- Roger Bacon and Gunpowder (1915) (0)
- Book Review:Man's Own Show: Civilization. George A. Dorsey (1932) (0)
- Bibliography of Periodical Literature (1956) (0)
- The A.D. 1234 Latin translation of Ptolemy's "Quadripartitum". (1964) (0)
- Yet Another Note in Reply to a Further Note on a Note (1926) (0)
- Notes and Correspondence (1927) (0)
- Book Review:A History of Modern Culture: Vol. I: The Great Renewal, 1543-1687. Preserved Smith (1931) (0)
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