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Collected Alchemical writings of Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus
Bombastus von Hohenheim including: Coelum philosophorum The Book
Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers The Treasure of
Treasures for Alchemists The Aurora of the Philosophers Paracelsus
(born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 11
November or 17 December 1493 - 24 September 1541) was a
German-Swiss Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist,
astrologer, and general occultist. He founded the discipline of
toxicology. He is also known as a revolutionary for insisting upon
using observations of nature, rather than looking to ancient texts,
in open and radical defiance of medical practice of his day. He is
also credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum, and for
the terms "gas," "chemistry," and "alcohol." Modern psychology
often also credits him for being the first to note that some
diseases are rooted in psychological illness. His personality was
stubborn and independent. He grew progressively more frustrated and
bitter as he became more embattled as a reformer. "Paracelsus,"
meaning "equal to or greater than Celsus," refers to the Roman
encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus from the 1st century, known
for his tract on medicine.
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