Religion and neoplatonism in Renaissance medicine
By: Walter Pagel ; edited by Marianne Winder.
Contributors: Winder, Marianne.
Series: Variorum reprint ;; CS226; Collected studies ;; CS226.
Publisher: Variorum Reprints
Published: 1985
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; Medicine -- Religious aspects.; Medicine -- History.; Neoplatonism.; Renaissance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
English and German.
Table of contents: title: The vindication of "Rubbish"; title: Religious motives in the medical biology of the XVIIth century; title: The religious and philosophical aspects of van Helmont's Science and medicine; title: Paracelsus' ätherähnliche Substanzen und ihre pharmakologische Auswertung an Hühnern; title: Paracelsus and Techellus the Jew; title: Paracelsus and the Neoplatonic and Gnostic tradition; title: The prime matter of Paracelsus; title: The eightness of Adam and related "Gnostic" ideas in the Paracelsian Corpus; title: The higher elements and prime matter in Renaissance naturalism and in Paracelsus; title: Das Rätsel der "Acht Mütter" im Paracelsischen Corpus; title: The Paracelsian Elias Artista and the Alchemical tradition.