The devil's doctor
Paracelsus and the world of Renaissance magic and science
1st American ed.
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Author
Publication
2006 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
109,000 words, Guess
Page Count
436 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3404466M
- ISBN-139780374229795
- ISBN-100374229791
- OCLC Control Number61027460
- OCLC Control Numberdevilsdoctorpara00ball
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2005019848
- LibraryThing827685
- Goodreads578890
Classifications
- DDC610/.92
- LCCR147.P2 B35 2006
- DDCB
Description
"Philip Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim - known to later ages as Paracelsus - stands on the borderline between medieval and modern; a name that is familiar but a man who has been hard to perceive or understand." "But who was Paracelsus and what did he really believe and practice? He has been seen both as a charlatan and as a founder of modern science, but Philip Ball's book reveals a more complex man - who used his eyes and ears to learn from nature how to heal, and who wrote influential books on medicine, surgery, alchemy and theology while living a drunken, combative, vagabond life. Above all Ball reveals a man who was a product of his time - an age of great change in which Christendom was divided, the classics were rediscovered and the earth was displaced from the centre of the cosmos - and whose bringing together of the seemingly diverse disciplines of alchemy and biology signalled the beginning of the age of rationalism."--Jacket.
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- Biography.
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