Publication

2009 - Niemeyer, Tübingen, Germany

Language

German

Word Count

96,000 words, Guess

Page Count

384 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139783484366404
  • ISBN-103484366400
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009523143
  • OCLC Control Number441152137
  • OCLC Control Number551125077
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9783484366404
  • Open LibraryOL30764622M

Classifications

  • LCCB785.P24 M67 2009
  • LCCB785.P24 M68 2009

Description

Paracelsus (1493-1541) spoke in various contexts about the multi-facetted topic of images. As a radical lay theologian, he wrote in the spirit of the Reformation attacking the Roman Church's use of images and outlining the power of faith. As a natural philosopher and physician, he composed a tract on images which was intended not to instruct readers in the aesthetic enjoyment of images, but to deploy their "power" and their "virtue" to explore the world and gain salvation. In his main work Astronomia magna , he integrated his ideas of the efficacy of images in an encyclopaedic scientific programme and laid out his expectations of the true artist.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Paracelsus und die Bilder: über Glauben, Magie und Astrologie im ReformationszeitalterNiemeyer2009-01-01

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