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Magic into science : the story of Paracelsus /

The story of Paracelsus; being the true history of the troubled life, adventures, doctrines, miraculous cures, and prophecies of the most renowned, widely traveled, very learned and pious gentleman, scholar, and most highly experienced and illustrious physicus, the Honorable Philippus Theophrastus A...

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Основен автор: Pachter, Henry Maximilian, 1907-
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : H. Schuman, ©1951.
Предмети:
Paracelsus, > 1493-1541.
Physicians > Europe > 16th century > Biography.
Scientists > Europe > 16th century > Biography.
Science > Europe > History > 16th century.
Подобни документи: Online version:: Magic into science.
Съдържание:
  • The errant knight of science
  • The mountain
  • Town and gown
  • Hippocrates vs. Galen
  • Quack doctor
  • The necromancer
  • Microcosmos and macrocosmos
  • The traveling adept
  • Under the brogue
  • Aureolus
  • The elixir of long life
  • This side of the miraculous
  • Call to office
  • The challenge
  • "Cacophrastus"
  • Poisons, bankers, and pests
  • Doctors and people
  • Doctors and money
  • The matter of life
  • The Copernican turn
  • Power, freaks, and frailties of mind
  • Immortality and the seven souls
  • In the pit
  • Professor pf theology
  • Success at last
  • The last fight
  • The apology of Faustus
  • Appendix A: Some notes on magic and related subjects
  • Appendix B: The historical approach
  • Appendix C: A note on Theophrastus' Scotism
  • Appendix D: Alchemy
  • Appendix E: Bibliography
  • Appendix F: A note on the quotations
  • Appendix G: Chronology.

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