The devil's doctor
Subtitle: Paracelsus and the world of Renaissance magic and science
By: Philip Ball.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780374229795
Subjects: Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; Physicians -- Biography.; Alchemists -- Biography.; Science -- History -- 16th century.; Science and magic.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Black madonna: a country doctor; title: The metal makers: learning the arts; title: The universal scholar: a Renaissance education; title: The staff and the snake: healing in the early renaissance; title: Intellectual vagabonds: walking the pages of the book of nature; title: A new religion: the trials of reformation; title: Revolution under the sign of the shoe: sedition in Salzburg; title: Transmutation at Ingolstadt: making gold; title: Elixir and quintessence: a chemical medicine; title: Bitter medicine: Paracelsus among the humanists; title: The battle of Basle: how Paracelsus left town; title: Against the grain: quicksilver and wood; title: The alchemist inside: an hermetic biology; title: Beyond wonders: the matrix of the world; title: Star and ascendant: a science of prophesy; title: Demons of the mind: invisible diseases; title: The little man: animating the earth; title: The white horse: death in Salzburg; title: Work with fire: the chemical legacy of Paracelsus; title: Philosopher's gold: the last of the chemical magicians.