IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB123621980

Real or Fake? New Light on the Paracelsian De natura rerum (2020)

Gantenbein, Urs Leo (Author)

Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Volume: 67
Issue: 1
Pages: 4-29

DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2020.1720339

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2020.1720339

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

Natural philosophy Manuscripts Publishers and publishing Forgeries Alchemy 16th century Paracelsus, Theophrast von Hohenheim

So far it has never been clearly decided whether the treatise De natura rerum constitutes an authentic work by the physician and natural philosopher Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493/94–1541) This article outlines the manuscript and printing traditions of De natura rerum, in which a recently discovered manuscript from 1571 is identified as the earliest source. The watermarks of this manuscript refer to the Tyrolean Inn Valley, where great alchemical expertise was available due to silver mining. A detailed examination of the content and style of the preface and the nine chapters indicates the involvement of at least three different authors. Some of these parts are definitely forgeries, while others cannot be judged with certainty as to their authenticity. On the other hand, three chapters, those on death, resuscitation and the signature of natural things, are most likely real writings of Paracelsus.

...More

Included in

Article Didier Kahn; Hiro Hirai (2020) Paracelsus, Forgeries and Transmutation: Introduction. Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 1-3). unapi

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB123621980/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Didier Kahn; Hiro Hirai; (2020)
Introduction Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy (/isis/citation/CBB962721802/)

Article Hiro Hirai; (2020)
Into the Forger’s Library: The Genesis of De natura rerum in Publication History (/isis/citation/CBB971176253/)

Article Weeks, Andrew; (2010-2011)
Das fragmentierte Mosaik des Paracelsischen Schriftencorpus---Welche Aussichten haben die Ubersetzungs- und Editionsarbeit? (/isis/citation/CBB001200389/)

Book Paracelsus, ; Weeks, Andrew; (2008)
Essential Theoretical Writings (/isis/citation/CBB001220259/)

Article Didier Kahn; (2018)
Quintessence and the Prolongation of Life in the Works of Paracelsus (/isis/citation/CBB983986033/)

Book Kavey, Allison; (2007)
Books of Secrets: Natural Philosophy in England, 1550--1600 (/isis/citation/CBB000774266/)

Article Didier Kahn; Hiro Hirai; (2020)
Paracelsus, Forgeries and Transmutation: Introduction (/isis/citation/CBB463185809/)

Article Witt, Mathias; (2018)
Fabio Calvo – Translator, Editor and Falsifier of Hippocratic Writings (/isis/citation/CBB379070699/)

Article Hedesan, Georgiana D.; (2014)
Paracelsian Medicine and Theory of Generation in “Exterior homo”, a Manuscript Probably Authored by Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579--1644) (/isis/citation/CBB001422153/)

Book Joly, Bernard; (2011)
Descartes et la chimie (/isis/citation/CBB001320157/)

Book Frietsch, Ute; (2013)
Häresie und Wissenschaft: Eine Genealogie der paracelsischen Alchemie (/isis/citation/CBB001553052/)

Article Kahn, Didier; (2010-2011)
Le retour de Gérard Dorn sur la scène éditoriale de Bâle (1577--1578) (/isis/citation/CBB001200387/)

Article Andrew Sparling; (2020)
Paracelsus, a Transmutational Alchemist (/isis/citation/CBB222576444/)

Article Amadeo Murase; (2020)
The Homunculus and the Paracelsian Liber de imaginibus (/isis/citation/CBB087706807/)

Article William R. Newman; (2020)
Bad Chemistry: Basilisks and Women in Paracelsus and pseudo-Paracelsus (/isis/citation/CBB593660659/)

Article Penman, Leigh T. I.; (2010)
“Ein Liebhaber des Mysterii, und ein großer Verwandter desselben.” Toward the Life of Balthasar Walther: Kabbalist, Alchemist and Wandering Paracelsian Physician (/isis/citation/CBB001021509/)

Article Telle, Joachim; (2004)
Paracelsus in pseudoparacelsischen Briefen (/isis/citation/CBB000740393/)

Book Didier Kahn; (2016)
Le fixe et le volatil: chimie et alchimie, de Paracelse à Lavoisier (/isis/citation/CBB308791400/)

Article Banchetti-Robino, Marina Paola; (2011)
Ontological Tensions in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry: Between Mechanism and Vitalism (/isis/citation/CBB001024702/)

Article Paulina Oszajca; (2019)
La virtù emetica dell'antimonio: "calices vomitorii" e "pillulae perpetuae" (/isis/citation/CBB894668613/)

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}