The French Paracelsians
Subtitle: The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific Tradition in Early Modern France
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780521894449
Subjects: History of medicine; History of science; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Chemistry - General; History; Chemistry--France--History; Medical / History; Science-Chemistry - General
First sentence: At the time, early in the sixteenth century, few people recognized that the medical and scientific communities were on the threshold of a fundamental change.