Book ID: CBB000077044

Paracelsus: The man and his reputation, his ideas and their transformation (1998)

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Grell, Ole Peter (Editor)


Brill


Publication Date: 1998
Physical Details: ix + 351 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

Description Contents: Grell, Ole Peter: Introduction: The enigma of Paracelsus. Pumfrey, Stephen: The spagyric art, or, The impossible work of separating pure from impure Paracelsianism: A historiographic analysis. Cunningham, Andrew: Paracelsus fat and thin: Thoughts on reputations and realities. Goltz, Dietlinde: Paracelsus as a guiding model: Historians and their object. Breger, Herbert: Nature and character. Trevor-Roper, Hugh: Paracelsianism made political, 1600-1650. Moran, Bruce T.: Medicine, alchemy and the control of language: Andreas Libavius versus the Neoparacelsians. Gilly, Carlos: “Theophrastia Sancta”: Paracelsianism as a religion in conflict with the established churches. Rudolph, Hartmut: Hohenheim's anthropology in the light of his writings on the Eucharist. Gause, Ute: On Paracelsus's epistemology in his early theological writings and his Astronomia magna. Debus, Allen G.: Paracelsianism and the diffusion of chemical philosophy in early modern Europe. Grell, Ole Peter: The acceptable face of Paracelsianism: The legacy of Idea medicinae and the introduction of Paracelsianism into early modern Denmark. Christie, J.R.R.: The Paracelsian body. McKee, Francis: The Paracelsian kitchen. Schott, Heinz: “Inivisible diseases”: Imagination and magnetism: Paracelsus and the consequences.


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Review Smith, P. H. (2000) Review of "Paracelsus: The man and his reputation, his ideas and their transformation". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 157). unapi

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Chapter Moran, Bruce T. (1998) Medicine, alchemy, and the control of language: Andreas Libavius versus the Neoparacelsians. In: Paracelsus: The man and his reputation, his ideas and their transformation (p. 135). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Moran, Bruce T.
Clericuzio, Antonio
Forshaw, Peter J.
Hannaway, Owen
Keller, Vera A.
Klein, Joel A.
Journals
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
History of Science
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Science and Education
Publishers
Science History Publications
Steiner
Truman State University Press
Concepts
Alchemy
Chemistry
Natural philosophy
Aristotelianism
Chemical elements
Physicians; doctors
People
Libavius, Andreas
Paracelsus, Theophrastus von Hohenheim
Boyle, Robert
Brahe, Tycho
Descartes, René
Drebbel, Cornelis van
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
18th century
Early modern
Places
Germany
Basel (Switzerland)
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