Pseudo-Paracelsus

Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy

AvDidier Kahn

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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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 distinguish the genuine from the fake amid the flood of publications contributed much to the emergence of Paracelsus’ legendary image as the patron of alchemy and occult philosophy. Innovative studies on largely overlooked aspects of Paracelsianism along with an extensive catalogue of Paracelsian forgeries make this volume an essential resource for future studies.Contributors are Tobias Bulang, Dane T. Daniel, Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr., Hiro Hirai, Didier Kahn, Julian Paulus, Lawrence M. Principe, and Martin Žemla. Originally published as Special Issue of the journal Early Science and Medicine, volume 24 (2019), no. 5-6 (published February 2020), with a revised Introduction and a new Appendix by Julian Paulus, entitled “A Catalogue Raisonné of Pseudo-Paracelsian Writings: Texts Attributed to Paracelsus and Paracelsian Writings of Doubtful Authenticity,” has been added.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-02
Mått:155 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt:963 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brill
Antal sidor:494
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004503373

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Naturvetenskapens historia inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Medicinhistoria inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Didier Kahn, Ph.D. (1998, University of Paris IV, Sorbonne), is Senior Researcher at the CNRS, Cellf 16-18 (Sorbonne). He has published extensively in the history of alchemy, science, medicine and literature, including Alchimie et paracelsisme en France (Droz, 2007), La Messe alchimique attribuée à Melchior de Sibiu (Classiques Garnier, 2015) and Le Fixe et le volatil. Chimie et alchimie, de Paracelse à Lavoisier (CNRS Editions, 2016). In 2010 he published a heavily annotated edition of Montfaucon de Villars’ witty dialogue Le Comte de Gabalis (1670). He is also involved in the edition of Denis Diderot’s Œuvres complètes (currently published by Hermann). Hiro Hirai, Ph.D. (1999, University of Lille III, France), is Research Associate at the Center for Science and Society, Columbia University. He has published widely in Renaissance philosophy, medicine and alchemy, including Le Concept de semence dans les théories de la matière à la Renaissance, de Marsile Ficin à Pierre Gassendi (Brepols, 2005), and Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy (Brill, 2011).

Recensioner i media

"[...] der vorliegende Band [schließt] eine beträchtlicheLücke in der modernen Paracelsusforschung" [it should be noted that this volume closes a considerable gap in modern Paracelsus research.]Claus Priesner (München) - Francia-Recensio 2022-3, DOI:10.11588/frrec.2022.3.90522

Innehållsförteckning

Notes on ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroductionDidier Kahn and Hiro HiraiThe 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 MotifsDane T. DanielThe Philosophia ad Athenienses in the Light of Genuine Paracelsian CosmologyDidier KahnGenealogy of Knowledge and Delegitimization of Universities: The Pseudo-Paracelsian Aurora PhilosophorumTobias BulangInto the Forger’s Library: The Genesis of De natura rerum in Publication HistoryHiro HiraiParacelsus, the Plague, and De PestilitateCharles D. Gunnoe, Jr.The Astronomia Olympi novi and the Theologia Cabalistica: Two Pseudo-Paracelsian Works of the Philosophia Mystica (1618)Martin ŽemlaThe Development of the Basil Valentine Corpus and Biography: Pseudepigraphic Corpora and Paracelsian IdeasLawrence M. PrincipeAppendix: A Catalogue raisonné of Pseudo-Paracelsian Writings: Texts Attributed to Paracelsus and Paracelsian Writings of Doubtful AuthenticityJulian PaulusIndex NominumIndices to the Appendix