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.


Reviewed By

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

Includes Chapters

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.
Vries, Lyke de
Mark Häberlein
Walter, Tilmann
Shackelford, Jole R.
Newman, William Royall
Concepts
Alchemy
Chemistry
Natural philosophy
Discipline formation
Medicine
Biographies
Time Periods
17th century
Renaissance
16th century
Early modern
18th century
Places
Germany
Basel (Switzerland)
France
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