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Magic into Science: The Story of Paracelsus
by Henry M. Pachter
Henry Schuman, New York, 1951, 360pp, HC.
[Europe, 16C]
Chapters
- The Errant Knight of Science
- The Mountain
- Town and Gown
- Hippocrates vs. Galen
- Quack Doctor
- The Necromancer
- Microcosmos and Macrocosmos
- The Traveling Adept
- Under the Brogue
- Aureolus
- The Elixir of Long Life
- This Side of the Miraculous
- Call to Office
- The Challenge
- "Cacophrastus"
- Poisons, Bankers, and Pests
- Doctors and People
- Doctors and Money
- The Matter of Life
- The Copernican Turn
- Power, Freaks, and Frailities of Mind
- Imoortality and the Seven Souls
- In the Pit
- Professor of Theology
- Success at Last
- The Last Fight
- The Apology of Faustus
Appendices
- Some Notes on Magic and Related Subjects
- The Historical Approach
- A Note on Theophrastus' Scotism
- Alchemy
- Bibliography
- A Note on the Quotations
- Chronology
Illustrations
- "The Alchymist"
- Mondino Lecturing
- Vesalius Lecturing
- Paracelsus' signatures
- The Zodiac Man
- "The Four Horsemen"
- Title page of Hieronymous Brunschwig's Art of Distillation
- Johannes Herbst (Oporinus), professor at Basle and publisher of Vesalius'
Fabrica
- "Death and the Maiden"
- Title page of Paracelsus' Astrological Practica for the year 1535
- "Young Man with a Broad-brimmed hat" (allegedly Paracelsus)