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OverviewThe 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 Zemla. 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 Raisonne of Pseudo-Paracelsian Writings: Texts Attributed to Paracelsus and Paracelsian Writings of Doubtful Authenticity, has been added. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Didier Kahn , Hiro HiraiPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Weight: 0.963kg ISBN: 9789004503373ISBN 10: 9004503374 Pages: 494 Publication Date: 02 December 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsNotes 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 Zemla The Development of the Basil Valentine Corpus and Biography: Pseudepigraphic Corpora and Paracelsian Ideas Lawrence M. Principe Appendix: A Catalogue raisonne of Pseudo-Paracelsian Writings: Texts Attributed to Paracelsus and Paracelsian Writings of Doubtful Authenticity Julian Paulus Index Nominum Indices to the AppendixReviewsAuthor InformationDidier 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 attribuee a Melchior de Sibiu (Classiques Garnier, 2015) and Le Fixe et le volatil. Chimie et alchimie, de Paracelse a 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 OEuvres completes (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 theories de la matiere a la Renaissance, de Marsile Ficin a Pierre Gassendi (Brepols, 2005), and Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy (Brill, 2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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