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Paracelsus's biography among his detractors / Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr. -- Paracelsus and the boundaries of medicine in early modern Augsburg / Mitchell Hammond -- To be or not to be a Paracelsian : something spagyric in the state of Denmark / Jole Shackelford -- "A spedie reformation" : barber-surgeons, anatomization, and the reformation of medicine in Tudor London / Lynda Payne -- Seeing "microcosma" : Paracelsus's gendered epistemology / Hildegard Elisabeth Keller -- Paracelsus on baptism and the acquiring of the eternal body / Dane Thor Daniel -- Paracelsus and van Helmont on imagination : magnetism and medicine before Mesmer / Heinz Schott -- Unholy astrology : did Pico always view it that way? / Sheila Rabin -- Wine and obscenities : astrology's degradation in the five books of Rabelais / Dené Scoggins -- Robert Boyle, "the sceptical chymist," and Hebrew / Michael T. Walton -- Johannes Praetorius : early modern topography and the giant Rübezahl / Gerhild Scholz Williams -- Demons, natural magic, and the virtually real : visual paradox in early modern Europe / Stuart Clark -- Selected bibliography of Paracelsiana and early modern science. |
