Magic into science; the story of Paracelsus

By:

Pachter, Henry M

Material type: Text

TextNew York Henry Schuman 1951Description: 360p.; ill.; bibliog. notes; appendices; bibliog.; indexContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Subject(s):

Paracelsus 1493-1541

Abstract: 'Among the controversial characters of the Renaissance age, Paracelsus aroused my interest first as a partisan of a lost cause....again when I studied the intricate ways in which science developed out of magic conceptions of Nature. For a third time his fascinating character, so singularly astride between the past and the future, injected itself into a study of the philosophy of man. His significance, I found, had been apparent to the contemporaries who had identified him with the legendary Dr. Faustus, the symbol of modern man's striving for omnipotence....'

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'Among the controversial characters of the Renaissance age, Paracelsus aroused my interest first as a partisan of a lost cause....again when I studied the intricate ways in which science developed out of magic conceptions of Nature. For a third time his fascinating character, so singularly astride between the past and the future, injected itself into a study of the philosophy of man. His significance, I found, had been apparent to the contemporaries who had identified him with the legendary Dr. Faustus, the symbol of modern man's striving for omnipotence....'

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