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The Philosophia ad Athenienses in the Light of Genuine Paracelsian Cosmology (2020)

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The pseudo-Paracelsian Philosophia ad Athenienses (1564) draws upon many of the ideas of Paracelsus but combines them with many other elements not found in the genuine works of the Swiss physician. After discussing the details of its edition, we summarize its content, then examine its possible sources, including the authentic texts of Paracelsus by which the unknown author will have taken inspiration. We discuss specifically the question of uncreated prime matter and provide a number of criteria allowing us to consider the treatise as spurious. Finally, we argue that the unknown author wrote this text and ascribed it to Paracelsus in order to produce a more Platonist Paracelsian cosmology than that of the genuine treatises of Paracelsus, which apparently disappointed the unknown author in this regard.

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Article Didier Kahn; Hiro Hirai (2020) Introduction Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy. Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (pp. 415-418). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hirai, Hiro
Kahn, Didier
Bram Demulder
Žemla, Martin
Bulang, Tobias
Hicks, Andrew
Concepts
Cosmology
Platonism
Philosophy
Natural philosophy
Alchemy
Stoicism
Time Periods
16th century
Renaissance
Early modern
17th century
Ancient
Medieval
Places
Europe
Italy
Greece
Basel (Switzerland)
Florence (Italy)
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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