From magic to science : essays on the scientific twilight / Charles Singer.

Science under the Roman Empire

Dark Ages and the dawn of science

Lorica of Gildas the Briton

Early English magic and medicine

Early herbals

Visions of Hildegard of Bingen

School of Salerno and its legends

London : Ernest Benn, 1928.

xix, 253 pages, 49 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/118/46

Revised (sometimes considerably) versions of essays originally published elsewhere

1. Science under the Roman Empire.--2. The Dark Ages and the dawn of science.--3. The lorica of Gildas the Briton.--4. Early English magic and medicine.--5. Early herbals.--6. The visions of Hildegard of Bingen.--7. The School of Salerno and its legends (with Dorothea Singer)