Paracelsian Moments : Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Clark, Stuart (Contribuidor), Daniel, Dane Thor (Contribuidor), Gunnoe Jr., Charles D. (Editor ), Gunnoe, Jr (Contribuidor), Hammond, Mitchell (Contribuidor), Keller, Hildegard Elisabeth (Contribuidor), Payne, Lynda (Contribuidor), Rabin, Sheila (Contribuidor), Schott, Heinz (Contribuidor), Scoggins, Dené (Contribuidor), Shackelford, Jole (Contribuidor), Walton, Michael T. (Contribuidor), Williams, Gerhild Scholz (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]
Colección:Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ; 64
Temas:
Science > Europe > History > 16th century.
SCIENCE / History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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