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Paracelsian Moments : Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe / ed. by Gerhild Scholz Williams, Charles D. Gunnoe Jr.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ; 64Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780271091037
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 509.031 21
LOC classification:
  • R147.P2 P385 2002
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PARACELSIANA -- PARACELSUS' S BIOGRAPHY AMONG HIS DETRACTORS -- PARACELSUS AND THE BOUNDARIES OF MEDICINE IN E ARLY MODERN AUGSBURG -- TO BE OR NOT TO BE A PARACELSIAN. Something Spagyric in the State of Denmark -- "A SPEDIE REFORMATION ". Barber-Surgeons, Anatomization, and the Reformation of Medicine in Tudor London -- SEEING "MICROCOSMA ". Paracelsus's Gendered Epistemology -- PARACELSUS ON BAPTISM AND THE ACQUIRING OF THE ETERNAL BODY -- PARACELSUS AND VAN HELMONT ON IMAGINATION. Magnetism and Medicine before Mesmer -- NATURAL MAGIC AND NATURAL WONDERS -- UNHOLY ASTROLOGY. Did Pico Always View It That Way? -- WINE AND OBSCENITIES. Astrology's Degradation in the Five Books of Rabelais -- ROBERT BOYLE , "THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST," AND HEBREW -- JOHANNES PRAETORIUS. Early Modern Topography and the Giant Rübezahl -- DEMONS, NATURAL MAGIC, AND THE VIRTUALLY REAL. Visual Paradox in Early Modern Europe -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PARACELSIANA AND EARLY MODERN SCIENCE . -- INDEX
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PARACELSIANA -- PARACELSUS' S BIOGRAPHY AMONG HIS DETRACTORS -- PARACELSUS AND THE BOUNDARIES OF MEDICINE IN E ARLY MODERN AUGSBURG -- TO BE OR NOT TO BE A PARACELSIAN. Something Spagyric in the State of Denmark -- "A SPEDIE REFORMATION ". Barber-Surgeons, Anatomization, and the Reformation of Medicine in Tudor London -- SEEING "MICROCOSMA ". Paracelsus's Gendered Epistemology -- PARACELSUS ON BAPTISM AND THE ACQUIRING OF THE ETERNAL BODY -- PARACELSUS AND VAN HELMONT ON IMAGINATION. Magnetism and Medicine before Mesmer -- NATURAL MAGIC AND NATURAL WONDERS -- UNHOLY ASTROLOGY. Did Pico Always View It That Way? -- WINE AND OBSCENITIES. Astrology's Degradation in the Five Books of Rabelais -- ROBERT BOYLE , "THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST," AND HEBREW -- JOHANNES PRAETORIUS. Early Modern Topography and the Giant Rübezahl -- DEMONS, NATURAL MAGIC, AND THE VIRTUALLY REAL. Visual Paradox in Early Modern Europe -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PARACELSIANA AND EARLY MODERN SCIENCE . -- INDEX

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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.

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