LEADER 05047cam 22006854a 4500001 ocm61027460 003 OCoLC 005 20220726155616.0 008 050713s2006 nyuab b 001 0beng 010 2005019848 020 0374229791 020 9780374229795 024 3 9780374229795 035 (Sirsi) o61027460 035 (OCoLC)61027460 040 DLC |beng |cDLC |dBAKER |dC#P |dVP@ |dIXA |dIG# |dNLGGC |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dNOR |dTEF |dYUS |dFMO |dSMP |dCQU |dA7U |dTUU |dP4I |dOCLCF |dOCLCQ |dRCT |dOCLCQ |dOCL |dSNC |dICN |dRC0 |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dOCLCA |dCN5CF |dOCLCO |dQQ3 |dJDP |dOCLCO |dOCLCA |dOCL |dOCLCA |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dNLE |dOCLCQ |dJ9U |dOCLCO |dNEH |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 e-sz--- 049 NEHH 050 00 R147.P2 |bB35 2006 060 4 WZ 100 082 00 610/.92B |222 084 30.01 |2bcl 084 35.09 |2bcl 084 44.01 |2bcl 100 1 Ball, Philip, |d1962- |=^A395561 245 14 The devil's doctor : |bParacelsus and the world of Renaissance magic and science / |cPhilip Ball. 250 1st American ed. 260 New York : |bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, |c2006. 300 viii, 436 pages : |billustrations, maps ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-417) and index. 505 00 |tAcknowledgments -- |tIntroduction : Fool's quest : a Faustina legacy -- |gch. 1. |tBlack madonna : a country doctor -- |gch. 2. |tThe metal makers : learning the arts -- |gch. 3. |tThe universal scholar : a Renaissance education -- |gch. 4. |tThe staff and the snake : healing in the early renaissance -- |gch. 5. |tIntellectual vagabonds : walking the pages of the book of nature -- |gch. 6. |tA new religion : the trials of reformation -- |gch. 7. |tRevolution under the sign of the shoe : sedition in Salzburg -- |gch. 8. |tTransmutation at Ingolstadt : making gold -- |gch. 9. |tElixir and quintessence : a chemical medicine -- |gch. 10. |tBitter medicine : Paracelsus among the humanists -- |gch. 11. |tThe battle of Basle : how Paracelsus left town -- |gch. 12. |tAgainst the grain : quicksilver and wood -- |gch. 13. |tThe alchemist inside : an hermetic biology -- |gch. 14. |tBeyond wonders : the matrix of the world -- |gch. 15. |tStar and ascendant : a science of prophesy -- |gch. 16. |tDemons of the mind : invisible diseases -- |gch. 17. |tThe little man : animating the earth -- |gch. 18. |tThe white horse : death in Salzburg -- |gch. 19. |tWork with fire : the chemical legacy of Paracelsus -- |gch. 20. |tPhilosopher's gold : the last of the chemical magicians -- |tNotes -- |tBibliography -- |tIndex. 520 1 "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." "But who was Paracelsus and what did he really believe and practice? He has been seen both as a charlatan and as a founder of modern science, but Philip Ball's book reveals a more 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 Christendom was divided, the classics were rediscovered and the earth was displaced from the centre of the cosmos - and whose bringing together of the seemingly diverse disciplines of alchemy and biology signalled the beginning of the age of rationalism."--Jacket 541 1 |3Laupus- John Lehman, donor. 600 00 Paracelsus, |d1493-1541. |=^A14277 650 0 Physicians |vBiography. |=^A477251 650 0 Alchemists |vBiography. |=^A766375 650 0 Science |xHistory |y16th century. |=^A213 650 0 Science and magic. |=^A317613 650 0 Alchemy. |=^A25910 650 12 Alchemy. |0(DNLM)D000422 |=^A937339 650 22 Magic |xhistory. |0(DNLM)D008273Q000266 |=^A935596 650 22 Science |xhistory. |0(DNLM)D012586Q000266 |=^A941905 650 22 History, 16th Century. |0(DNLM)D049669 |=^A941309 650 2 Physicians. |=^A919472 651 2 Switzerland. |0(DNLM)D013557 |=^A46032 655 2 Biography. |0(DNLM)D019215 |?UNAUTHORIZED 856 41 |3Sample text |uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1215/2005019848-s.html 856 41 |3Table of contents |uhttps://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005019848.html 856 42 |3Contributor biographical information |uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005019848-b.html 856 42 |3Publisher description |uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005019848-d.html 949 WZ 100 P221b 2006 |hHSL70 |i31740005994631 |p$oHJH 994 C0 |bNEH 096 WZ 100 |bP221b 2006 596 4 998 5879281