Paracelsian Moments: science, medicine & astrology in early modern Europe

Paracelsian Moments: science, medicine & astrology in early modern Europe

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, Fraṅois Rabelais, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Johannes Praetorius.

Edited by Gerhild Scholz Williams & Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr

Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press

Paracelsus's biography among his detractors / Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr. -- Paracelsus and the boundaries of medicine in early modern Augsburg / Mitchell Hammond -- To be or not to be a Paracelsian : something spagyric in the state of Denmark / Jole Shackelford -- "A spedie reformation" : barber-surgeons, anatomization, and the reformation of medicine in Tudor London / Lynda Payne -- Seeing "microcosma" : Paracelsus's gendered epistemology / Hildegard Elisabeth Keller -- Paracelsus on baptism and the acquiring of the eternal body / Dane Thor Daniel -- Paracelsus and van Helmont on imagination : magnetism and medicine before Mesmer / Heinz Schott -- Unholy astrology : did Pico always view it that way? / Sheila Rabin -- Wine and obscenities : astrology's degradation in the five books of Rabelais / Dené Scoggins -- Robert Boyle, "the sceptical chymist," and Hebrew / Michael T. Walton -- Johannes Praetorius : early modern topography and the giant Rübezahl / Gerhild Scholz Williams -- Demons, natural magic, and the virtually real : visual paradox in early modern Europe / Stuart Clark -- Selected bibliography of Paracelsiana and early modern science.

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