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    • CHAPTER 12
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    FROM MAGIC TO CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS.

  • I The Supremacy of Magic
    — Primitive tendency to belief in magic
    — The Greek conception of natural laws
    — Influence of Plato and Aristotle on the growth of science
    — Effect of the establishment of Christianity on the development of the physical sciences
    — The revival of thought in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
    — Albert the Great
    — Vincent of Beauvais
    — Thomas Aquinas
    — Roger Bacon’s beginning of the experimental method brought to ght
    — The belief that science is futile gives place to the belief that it is dangerous
    — The two kinds of magic
    — Rarity of persecution for magic before the Christian era
    — The Christian theory of devils
    — Constantine’s laws against magic
    — Increasing terror of magic and witchcraft
    — Papal enactment’s against them
    — Persistence of the belief in magic
    — Its effect on the development of science
    — Roger Bacon
    — Opposition of secular rulers to science
    — John Baptist Porta
    — The opposition to scientific societies in Italy
    — In England
    — The effort to turn all thought from science to religion
    — The development of mystic theology
    — Its harmful influence on science
    — Mixture of theological with scientific speculation
    — This shown in the case of Melanchthon
    — In that of Francis Bacon
    — Theological theory of gases
    — Growth of a scientific theory
    — Basil Valentine and his contributions to chemistry
    — Triumph of the scientific theory

  • II The Triumph of Chemistry and Physics
    — New epoch in chemistry begun by Boyle
    — Attitude of the mob toward science
    — Effect on science of the reaction following the French
    — Revolution:
    — Development of chemistry since the middle of the nineteenth
    — century
    — Development of physics
    — Modern opposition to science in Catholic countries
    — Attack on scientific education in France
    — In England
    — In Prussia
    — Revolt against the subordination of education to science
    — Effect of the International Exhibition of ii at London
    — Of the endowment of State colleges in America by the Morrill
    — Act of
    — The results to religion

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