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Into the Forger’s Library: The Genesis of De natura rerum in Publication History (2020)

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One of the most popular writings ascribed to Paracelsus, De natura rerum appeared in 1572. That was when the movement of forgery production reached its climax, in parallel with the multiple editions of his genuine work Archidoxis. This article aims to place the genesis of De natura rerum in the context of publication history. It will first reconstruct a “library” by surveying the works ascribed to Paracelsus which could serve as instruments for the “author/reworker/editor” of De natura rerum. Then it will examine the evolution of this forgery production by focusing on the divergent editions of Archidoxis from 1569 to 1572.

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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
Kahn, Didier
Hirai, Hiro
Gunnoe, Charles D., Jr.
Daniel, Dane T.
Gantenbein, Urs Leo
Gent, Robert H. van
Journals
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Acta Historica Astronomiae
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Nova Acta Paracelsica: Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Paracelsus-Gesellschaft
Publishers
Brill
CNRS Éditions
Pennsylvania State University Press
Truman State University Press
Concepts
Alchemy
Forgeries
Chemistry
Medicine
Natural philosophy
Translations
People
Paracelsus, Theophrastus von Hohenheim
Pseudo-Paracelsus
Croll, Oswald
Dorn, Gerard
Figulus, Benedictus
Flamsteed, John
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
15th century
18th century
Renaissance
Early modern
Places
Belgium
Italy
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