Paracelsus Selected Writings

Name: Paracelsus Selected Writings
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ISBN: 9780691018768

ISBN-10: 0691018766

ISBN-13: 9780691018768

Edition: 2nd 1951

Authors: Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi, Norbert Guterman

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The enigmatic sixteenth-century Swiss physician and natural philosopher Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus, is known for the almost superhuman energy with which he produced his innumerable writings, for his remarkable achievements in the development of science, and for his reputation as a visionary (not to mention sorcerer) and alchemist. Little is known of his biography beyond his legendary achievements, and the details of his life have been filled in over the centuries by his admirers. This richly illustrated anthology presents in modernized language a selection of the moral thought of a man who was not only a self-willed genius charged with the…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1951
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/8/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword to the English Edition



Preface


Note on the Section Ornaments


Paracelsus: His Life and His Work


Credo



Man and the Created World



Man and His Body



Man and Works



Man and Ethics



Man and Spirit



Man and Fate



God, the Eternal Light


Key to Sources


Glossary


Bibliography


Indexes