Paracelsus Alchemy

Author : Bruce T. Moran
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789141764

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Paracelsus by Bruce T. Moran Pdf

Throughout his controversial life, the alchemist, physician, and social-religious radical known as Paracelsus combined traditions that were magical and empirical, scholarly and folk, learned and artisanal. He read ancient texts and then burned “the best” of them. He endorsed both Catholic and Reformation beliefs, but he also believed devoutly in a female deity. He traveled constantly, learning and teaching a new form of medicine based on the experience of miners, bathers, alchemists, midwives, and barber-surgeons. He argued for changes in the way the body was understood, how disease was defined, and how treatments were created, but he was also moved by mystical speculations, an alchemical view of nature, and an intriguing concept of creation. Bringing to light the ideas, diverse works, and major texts of this important Renaissance figure, Bruce T. Moran tells the story of how alchemy refashioned medical practice, showing how Paracelsus’s tenacity and endurance changed the medical world for the better and brought new perspectives to the study of nature.

Author : Paracelsus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Alchemy
ISBN : BSB:BSB11521595

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The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great by Paracelsus Pdf

Author : Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastu,Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1491084693

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Paracelsus - Alchemy by Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastu,Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim Pdf

Collected Alchemical writings of Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim including: Coelum philosophorum The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists The Aurora of the Philosophers Paracelsus (born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 11 November or 17 December 1493 - 24 September 1541) was a German-Swiss Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. He founded the discipline of toxicology. He is also known as a revolutionary for insisting upon using observations of nature, rather than looking to ancient texts, in open and radical defiance of medical practice of his day. He is also credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum, and for the terms "gas," "chemistry," and "alcohol." Modern psychology often also credits him for being the first to note that some diseases are rooted in psychological illness. His personality was stubborn and independent. He grew progressively more frustrated and bitter as he became more embattled as a reformer. "Paracelsus," meaning "equal to or greater than Celsus," refers to the Roman encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus from the 1st century, known for his tract on medicine.

Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429921824

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The Devil's Doctor by Philip Ball Pdf

Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, who called himself Paracelsus, stands at the cusp of medieval and modern times. A contemporary of Luther, an enemy of the medical establishment, a scourge of the universities, an alchemist, an army surgeon, and a radical theologian, he attracted myths even before he died. His fantastic journeys across Europe and beyond were said to be made on a magical white horse, and he was rumored to carry the elixir of life in the pommel of his great broadsword. His name was linked with Faust, who bargained with the devil. Who was the man behind these stories? Some have accused him of being a charlatan, a windbag who filled his books with wild speculations and invented words. Others claim him as the father of modern medicine. Philip Ball exposes a more complex truth in The Devil's Doctor—one that emerges only by entering into Paracelsus's time. He explores the intellectual, political, and religious undercurrents of the sixteenth century and looks at how doctors really practiced, at how people traveled, and at how wars were fought. For Paracelsus was a product of an age of change and strife, of renaissance and reformation. And yet by uniting the diverse disciplines of medicine, biology, and alchemy, he assisted, almost in spite of himself, in the birth of science and the emergence of the age of rationalism. "Ball produces a vibrant, original portrait of a man of contradictions:" - Publishers Weekly

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004503380

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Pseudo-Paracelsus by Anonim Pdf

With its innovative studies and its extensive catalogue of texts erroneously attributed to Paracelsus (1493/4-1541), this volume explores largely overlooked aspects of the Paracelsian movement in Renaissance and early modern medicine, science, natural philosophy, theology and religion.

Author : Karen Hunger Parshall,Michael T. Walton,Bruce T. Moran
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781612481357

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Bridging Traditions by Karen Hunger Parshall,Michael T. Walton,Bruce T. Moran Pdf

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.

Author : Paracelsus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004157569

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Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim, 1493-1541) by Paracelsus Pdf

Drawing upon Huser's 1589 publication of Paracelsus' works, this dual-language volume combines a critical edition of Essential Theoretical Writings on philosophy, medicine, nature, and the supernatural, with new English translations and extensive commentary on the second largest sixteenth-century German-language corpus.

Author : Paracelsus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Alchemy
ISBN : UCSC:32106006105925

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The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great by Paracelsus Pdf

Author : Karen Hunger Parshall,Michael T. Walton,Bruce T. Moran
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780271091259

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Bridging Traditions by Karen Hunger Parshall,Michael T. Walton,Bruce T. Moran Pdf

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.

Author : Paracelsus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1603866949

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The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus - by Paracelsus Pdf

An unabridged, unaltered printing of Volume 1 of 2, to include comprehensive table of contents and index at book's end, with preface to the English edition, Part I Hermetic Chemistry, and Appendices -

Author : Paracelsus
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0801855233

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Four Treatises of Theophrastus Von Hohenheim Called Paracelsus by Paracelsus Pdf

Together these essays show one of the most original minds of the Renaissance at the height of his powers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004503380

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Pseudo-Paracelsus by Anonim Pdf

With its innovative studies and its extensive catalogue of texts erroneously attributed to Paracelsus (1493/4-1541), this volume explores largely overlooked aspects of the Paracelsian movement in Renaissance and early modern medicine, science, natural philosophy, theology and religion.

Author : Paracelsus
Publisher : Holmes Publishing Group
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004254268

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The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus the Great by Paracelsus Pdf

Author : Paracelsus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0691018766

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Selected Writings by Paracelsus Pdf

The enigmatic sixteenth-century Swiss physician and natural philosopher Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus, is known for the almost superhuman energy with which he produced his innumerable writings, for his remarkable achievements in the development of science, and for his reputation as a visionary (not to mention sorcerer) and alchemist. Little is known of his biography beyond his legendary achievements, and the details of his life have been filled in over the centuries by his admirers. This richly illustrated anthology presents in modernized language a selection of the moral thought of a man who was not only a self-willed genius charged with the dynamism of an impetuous and turbulent age but also in many ways a humble seeker after truth, who deeply influenced C. G. Jung and his followers.

Author : A. E. Waite
Publisher : Cornerstone Book Publishers
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1934935433

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Treasured Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus by A. E. Waite Pdf

Paracelsus was the pseudonym of Dr. Theophrastus Bombastus Hohenheim, the Swiss chemist, physician and alchemist who is often credited with being one of the fathers of modern medicine. This classic alchemical work was translated into English by A. E. Waite and includes: "The Coelum Philosophorum," "The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers," "The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists," "The Aurora of the Philosophers" and "An Alchemical Catechism" in this one volume.