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La Magie et l'Astrologie dans l'Antiquit et au Moyen geOu, tude sur les Superstitions Paennes que se sont Perptues Jusqua Nos Jours\nAuthor(s): L. -F. -Alfred Maury\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108073066, 978-1108073066\nSynopsis\nPublished just a year before his seminal Le Sommeil et les Rves [tel], this book by French scholar L. -F. -Alfred Maury [tel] examines the complex history of occult philosophy. A librarian by profession, Maury was widely published in geography, archaeology, medicine, law, psychology and bibliography as well as history, and was a well-known figure in Parisian intellectual circles. In this 1860 publication Maury considers the relationship between science and magic, purporting to demonstrate how people have been 'elevated' from the darkness of supernatural belief into the light of modern science. The book is divided into two parts. The first examines the traditions .