The English Paracelsians
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The English Paracelsians
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Author : Allen G. Debus
language : en
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Release Date : 1966
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Paracelsus The Man And His Reputation His Ideas And Their Transformation
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Author : Ole P. Grell
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-12-06
Paracelsus The Man And His Reputation His Ideas And Their Transformation written by Ole P. Grell and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-06 with History categories.
Despite his fame Paracelsus remains an illusive character. As this volume points out it is somewhat of a paradox that the fascination with Paracelsus and his ideas has remained so widespread when it is born in mind that it is far from clear what exactly he contributed to medicine and natural philosophy. But perhaps it is exactly this enigma which through the ages has made Paracelsus so attractive to such a variety of people who all want to claim him as an advocate for their particular ideas. The first section of this book deals with the historiography surrounding Paracelsus and Paracelsianism and points to the need of reclaiming the man and his ideas in their proper historical context. A further two sections are concerned with the different religious, social and political implications of Paracelsianism and its medical and natural philosophical significance respectively.
The French Paracelsians
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Author : Allen George Debus
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-08-15
The French Paracelsians written by Allen George Debus and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is normally characterised in terms of astronomy and the physics of motion. In The French Paracelsians, first published in 1992, Allen Debus narrates an important episode whose contribution to the scientific revolution has been largely ignored: the long-standing contention between Paracelsians and Galenists.
The Chemical Philosophy
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Author : Allen G. Debus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Chemical Philosophy written by Allen G. Debus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Science categories.
Knowledge And Practice In English Medicine 1550 1680
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Author : Andrew Wear
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-11-16
Knowledge And Practice In English Medicine 1550 1680 written by Andrew Wear and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-16 with History categories.
This is a major synthesis of the knowledge and practice of early modern English medicine in its social and cultural contexts. The book vividly maps out some central areas: remedies (and how they were made credible), notions of disease, advice on preventive medicine and on healthy living, and how surgeons worked upon the body and their understanding of what they were doing. The structures of practice and knowledge examined in the first part of the book came to be challenged in the later seventeenth century, when the 'new science' began to overturn the foundation of established knowledge. However, as the second part of the book shows, traditional medical practice was so well entrenched in English culture that much of it continued into the eighteenth century. Various changes did however occur, which set the agenda for later medical treatment and which are discussed in the final chapter.
Bridging Traditions
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Author : Karen Hunger Parshall
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2015-05-25
Bridging Traditions written by Karen Hunger Parshall and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-25 with Science categories.
Bridging Traditions explores the connections between apparently different zones of comprehension and experience—magic and experiment, alchemy and mechanics, practical mathematics and geometrical mysticism, things earthy and heavenly, and especially science and medicine—by focusing on points of intersection among alchemy, chemistry, and Paracelsian medical philosophy. In exploring the varieties of natural knowledge in the early modern era, the authors pay tribute to the work of Allen Debus, whose own endeavors cleared the way for scholars to examine subjects that were once snubbed as suitable only to the refuse heap of the history of science.
Paracelsian Moments
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Author : Gerhild Scholz Williams
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2003-02-22
Paracelsian Moments written by Gerhild Scholz Williams and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-22 with Science categories.
Scientific ideas inspired by religious, magical, and alchemical themes competed alongside traditional Aristotelian science and the emerging mechanical philosophy in the early modern era. At the center of this ferment was a quirky and creative German physician, Paracelsus, whose religious-alchemical worldview served as an inspiration for countless scientific innovators. This collection is about Paracelsus and the wide range of issues he explored, and ones taken up by many who were directly or indirectly affected by the same mental universe that sustained his thought and writings. This volume includes strong contextual studies on Paracelsianism and the larger cultural history of early modern science, including groundbreaking studies on Robert Boyle, François Rabelais, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Johannes Praetorius.
A Philosophical Path For Paracelsian Medicine
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Author : Jole Shackelford
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2004
A Philosophical Path For Paracelsian Medicine written by Jole Shackelford and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Medicine categories.
The great Paracelsian scholar Walter Pagel and the pioneer medical historian Kurt Polycarp Sprengel identified Petrus Severinus' Idea Medicinæ (1571) as an influential vehicle for the elaboration and diffusion of Paracelsian ideas in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, a process that has recently come under renewed scrutiny. Severinus' conception that diseases grow from living, seed-like entities proved to be an especially important idea, which was recognized by prominent scientific and medical authors from Oswald Croll and Daniel Sennert to Pierre Gassendi and Robert Boyle. But they also formed a useful theoretical model for reconciling ideas about physical causation with certain Christian Platonist concerns in Protestant theology. A Philosophical Path for Paracelsian Medicine is the first book-length monograph to treat Severinus, a Danish royal physician and contemporary of the great astronomer Tycho Brahe, and to present his ideas in their historical context as well as considering their ramifications for medical and religious theory in the decades prior to the Thirty Years' War. This book will prove to be a useful tool in the reexamination of the process by which Paracelsian ideas were spread and assimilated and will appeal to all those interested the intellectual background for the work of Tycho Brahe and his students and the role of Paracelsian and Hermetic metaphysical ideas in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.
Alchemy Paracelsianism And Shakespeare S The Winter S Tale
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Author : Martina Zamparo
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-10-05
Alchemy Paracelsianism And Shakespeare S The Winter S Tale written by Martina Zamparo and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale. A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with several topoi, myths, and emblematic symbols coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. It also discusses the alchemical significance of water and time in the play’s circular and regenerative pattern and the healing role of women. All the major symbols of alchemy are present in Shakespeare’s play: the intertwined serpents of the caduceus, the chemical wedding, the filius philosophorum, and the so-called rex chymicus. This book also provides an in-depth survey of late Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and Hermetic culture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. Importantly, it contends that The Winter’s Tale, in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the rota alchemica and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King James’s conciliatory attitude.
The Chemical Philosophy
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Author : Allen G. Debus
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2013-03-21
The Chemical Philosophy written by Allen G. Debus and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-21 with Science categories.
Swiss-born physician and alchemist Paracelsus (1493–1541) and his disciples espoused a doctrine they proclaimed as a truly Christian interpretation of nature in chemistry. Drawing upon a mixture of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance sources, they developed a new philosophy that interpreted both macrocosmic and microcosmic events through the personal observations of the chemist and the Divine Grace of the Lord. Until the publication of this book, however, the breadth and vicissitudes of the Paracelsian approach to nature and medicine had been little studied. This volume spans more than a century, providing a rich record of the major interests of the Paracelsian and other chemical philosophers and the conflicts in which they engaged with their contemporaries. It examines chemistry and nature in the Renaissance, the Paracelsian debates, the theories of Robert Fludd, the Helmontian restatement of the chemical philosophy, and many other issues of this transitional era in the history of science. Enhanced with 36 black-and-white illustrations, this well-researched and compellingly related study will fascinate students of the history of science, chemistry, and medicine.
