Paracelsian moments
Subtitle: science, medicine, & astrology in early modern Europe
By: Gerhild Scholz Williams and Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr.
Publisher: Truman State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Kirksville, MO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Description: This collection is about Paracelsus and the wide range of issues he explored, and ones taken up by many who were directly or indirectly affected by the same mental universe that sustained his thought and writings. This volume includes strong contextual studies on Paracelsianism and the larger cultural history of early modern science, including groundbreaking studies on Robert Boyle, Fraṅois Rabelais, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Johannes Praetorius.