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Pseudo-paracelsus: forgery and early modern alchemy, medicine and natural philosophy

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The production of forgeries under the name of the Swiss physician Paracelsus (1493/94-1541) was an integral part of the diffusion of the Paracelsian movement in early modern Europe. Many of these texts were widely read and extremely influential. The inability of most readers of the time to distingui...

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Other Authors: Kahn, Didier (Editor) , Hirai, Hiro (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2022
Series:Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2022, ISBN: 9789004507203
Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.1163/9789004503380
Subjects:
Aufsatzsammlung
Pseudepigraphie
Paracelsus
Online Access:Resolving-System, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004503380
Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004503380
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig: https://brill.com/abstract/title/61329
Aggregator, Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9789004503373.pdf
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Author Notes:edited by Didier Kahn, Hiro Hirai
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Didier Kahn and Hiro Hirai
  • The Authenticity of Paracelsus' Astronomia Magna and Brief an die Wittenberger Theologen: Towards a Diagnostic Rubric Clarifying Authentic and Spurious Elements in Paracelsus' Oeuvre on the Basis of Theological Motifs
  • Dane T. Daniel
  • The Philosophia ad Athenienses in the Light of Genuine Paracelsian Cosmology
  • Didier Kahn
  • Genealogy of Knowledge and Delegitimization of Universities: The Pseudo-Paracelsian Aurora Philosophorum
  • Tobias Bulang
  • Into the Forger's Library: The Genesis of De natura rerum in Publication History
  • Hiro Hirai
  • Paracelsus, the Plague, and De Pestilitate
  • Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr
  • The Astronomia Olympi novi and the Theologia Cabalistica: Two Pseudo-Paracelsian Works of the Philosophia Mystica (1618)
  • Martin Žemla
  • The Development of the Basil Valentine Corpus and Biography: Pseudepigraphic Corpora and Paracelsian Ideas
  • Lawrence M. Principe
  • Appendix: A Catalogue raisonné of Pseudo-Paracelsian Writings: Texts Attributed to Paracelsus and Paracelsian Writings of Doubtful Authenticity
  • Julian Paulus
  • Index Nominum
  • Indices to the Appendix.

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