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Religion and neoplatonism in Renaissance medicine / Walter Pagel ; edited by Marianne Winder.
LIBRA R147.P2 P29 1985
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pagel, Walter, 1898-1983.
- Series:
- Collected studies ; CS226.
- Variorum reprint ; CS226
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Paracelsus, 1493-1541.
- Paracelsus.
- Medicine--Early works to 1800--Religious aspects.
- Medicine.
- Neoplatonism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Variorum Reprints, 1985.
- Contents:
- The vindication of "Rubbish"
- Religious motives in the medical biology of the XVIIth century
- The religious and philosophical aspects of van Helmont's Science and medicine
- Paracelsus' ätherähnliche Substanzen und ihre pharmakologische Auswertung an Hühnern
- Paracelsus and Techellus the Jew
- Paracelsus and the Neoplatonic and Gnostic tradition
- The prime matter of Paracelsus
- The eightness of Adam and related "Gnostic" ideas in the Paracelsian Corpus
- The higher elements and prime matter in Renaissance naturalism and in Paracelsus
- Das Rätsel der "Acht Mütter" im Paracelsischen Corpus
- The Paracelsian Elias Artista and the Alchemical tradition.
- Notes:
- English and German.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0860781747
- OCLC:
- 13582544
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