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The Devil's Doctor - Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science (Paperback)
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The Devil's Doctor - Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science (Paperback)
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Philip Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim - known to
later ages as Paracelsus - stands on the borderline between
medieval and modern; a name that is familiar but a man who has been
hard to perceive or understand. Contemporary of Luther, enemy of
established medicine, scourge of the universities ('at all the
German schools you cannot learn as much as at the Frankfurt Fair'),
army surgeon and alchemist, myths about him - from his treating
diseases from beyond the grave in mid-nineteenth century Salzburg
to his Faustian bargain with the devil to regain his youth - have
been far more lasting than his actual story. Even during his
lifetime, he was rumoured to travel with a magical white horse and
to store the elixir of life in the pommel of his sword. But who was
Paracelsus and what did he really believe and practice? Although
Paracelsus has been seen as both a charlatan and as a founder of
modern science, Philip Ball's book reveals a more richly complex
man - who used his eyes and ears to learn from nature how to heal,
and who wrote influential books on medicine, surgery, alchemy and
theology while living a drunken, combative, vagabond life. Above
all, Ball reveals a man who was a product of his time - an age of
great change in which the church was divided and the classics were
rediscovered - and whose bringing together of the seemingly diverse
disciplines of alchemy and biology signalled the beginning of the
age of rationalism.
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