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Effigies Paracelsi Medici Celeberrimi
- Undated
…engraving of Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus (born Theophrastus von Hohenheim) wearing a small medal around his neck.…
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Paracelse
- After 1800 – before 1840
… portrait claims to provide a likeness of Paracelsus, the famed Swiss-German physician, botanist, and alchemist. A champion of chemical medicines, Paracelsus criticized established medical institutions for what he viewed as an over-reliance on the …Viewed from his left side, this portrait shows Paracelsus as a man of advanced years, with tonsure-like balding and a thoughtful, care-worn face. …
- Artist Tardieu, Ambroise, 1788-1841
- Subject Alchemists, Paracelsus, 1493-1541
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Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus
- 1567
…Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus—better known as Paracelsus—appeared as the frontispiece to a posthumous 1567 edition of his works titled Philosophiae …Theophrasti von Hohenhaim, Paracelsi genandt. Paracelsus is shown as a man of advanced years with a balding head and a thoughtful, lined face. He …different ideas of Paracelsus' appearance.…
- Subject Alchemists, Elixir of life, Paracelsus, 1493-1541
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Theatrum sympatheticum auctum
- exhibens varios authores, de pulvere sympathetico quidem
- 1662
…the so-called "weapon salve" attributed to Paracelsus, which applied to the weapon that caused a wound would cure the wound at a distance through…
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Oral history interview with Vladimir Prelog
- 1984-Jan-17
In this interview Vladimir Prelog discusses his career as an organic chemist. Prelog describes a thirty five year long affiliation with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). This includes work with the…
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Oral history interview with Ronald C. Breslow
- 1999-Mar-19 (First session)
- 1999-Apr-09 (Second session)
Ronald Breslow begins the interview with a discussion of his family life and background. He grew up in Rahway, New Jersey, the son of a physician. Max Tishler, a family friend, helped to pique Breslow's interest in…
- Interviewee Breslow, Ronald
- Interviewer Gortler, Leon B.
- Subject Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Chemistry, Organic, Breslow, Ronald, Columbia University, Cancer--Research, Chemists--Biography
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Testamentum Theorica
- 1446 – 1475
… associated in the sixteenth century with Paracelsus), the Testamentum was one of the first texts to develop the idea of the elixir, or the philosophers…
- Creator Of Work Pseudo-Llull
- Subject Alchemy, Alchemy--Manuscripts, Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316, Formulas, recipes, etc.
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Oral history interview with Allen G. Debus
- 2007-Mar-29
…, for instance. I had been interested in Paracelsus earlier, but Pagel’s work was especially interesting to me. And there was opportunity … that just as important, at the time, was Paracelsus, who said that, “If you’re going to look at the world, you’ve got to do it differently.” …Andrade and J. Simôes Redinha, pp. 5-9; Debus, "Paracelsus After 500 Years: Paracelsus and His Significance for Medical Science," pp. 11-31 (Paper …
- Interviewee Debus, Allen G.
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Historians of science, Chemistry, Chemists, Chemists--Biography, Science--Historiography, Debus, Allen G.
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 25 Number 3
- 2007 (Fall)
… …[BOOK REVIEW] Paracelsus, Healer of the German Reformation By Jole Shackelford The Protestant Reformation, the formation …emotional truth of the narrative” (p. 102) of Paracelsus’s life and times. Ball perceptively portrays Paracelsus as a social and religious conservative…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 24 Number 1
- 2006 (Spring)
…Se + N o ‘On © a= hn o x S 2 £ o ta oO 26 Paracelsus in the Neville Library The figure of Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, or Paracelsus ( … form to any given substance.” Paracelsus’s genuine a) … Dane Thor. “Invisible Wombs: Rethinking Paracelsus’s Concept of Body and Matter.” Ambix July 2006), forthcoming. . “Paracelsus on Baptism and…
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The Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, Volume 2
- An Annotated Catalogue of Printed Books on Alchemy, Chemistry, Chemical Technology, and Related Subjects
- 2006
… earlier and contemporary chemists (e.g., Paracelsus, Ba- sil Valentine, Kunckel, Becher, Stahl, and Boerhaave). The praeses, Andreas Elias Büchner …Bacon, Al- bertus Magnus, Flamel, Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Kelly). There are sections on the Rosicrucians, alchemy in the sev- enteenth century…
- Contributor Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library
- Publisher Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Chemistry, Rare Books, Alchemy
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Geometrical Illustrations of Newlands' and Mendelejeff's Periodic Law of the Atomic Weights of the Chemical Elements
- 1889
…1774 23. Copper. ee Prehistoric. 24. Zine. Paracelsus. XV1. century. 25. Gallium. De Boisbaudran. 1875 26. Germanium. Winkler. 1886 27. Arsenic…
- Author Haughton, Samuel
- Subject Periodic law, Chemical elements, Atomic weights
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Oral history interview with Tadeus Reichstein
- 1985-Apr-22
…old house from the fifteenth century where Paracelsus had worked. It's very interesting. They only had to restore it on the inside. For instance …, 14, 15 Organon, Inc., 11 Osone, 14 P Paracelsus, 12 Pasadena, 25 Patents, 16, 17 Pauli, Wolfgang, 5 Pauling, Linus C., 17 Pettit, George…
- Interviewee Reichstein, Tadeusz, 1897-1996
- Interviewer Koeppel, Tonja A.
- Subject Chemical engineering, Nobel Prize winners, Chemical engineers
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The Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, Volume 1
- An Annotated Catalogue of Printed Books on Alchemy, Chemistry, Chemical Technology, and Related Subjects
- 2006
…with the “light of nature,” or tincture of Paracelsus, and the philosopher’s stone. At the end are two “Aenigma” about the stone. (Caillet, 17 …are also mentioned (e.g., Albertus Magnus, Paracelsus, Helmont, Fludd, Lull, and Campa- nella). Little is known of Antonio, who here defends the …who published several medical works against Paracelsus and the iatrochemists. The present book on the formation of metals in their ores and the…
- Contributor Neville, Roy G.
- Publisher Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Chemistry, Rare books, Alchemy
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 24 Number 3
- 2006 (Fall)
…- ical practitioner who styled himself as Paracelsus—dismissed the belief that disease was the result of humoral im- balances in favor of the … Severinus’s importance as a populizer of Paracelsus, Shackelford traces how Severinus joined his friend Pratensis (a recognized Paracelsian) …Neoplatonism, the Hippocratic tradition, and Paracelsus’s theories, the Idea medicinae presented Severinus’s theory of semina—immaterial loci that…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 3
- 2005 (Fall)
…industries, to biographies of Mendeleev and Paracelsus. Institute exhibits and programs will showcase, whenever pos- sible, this scholarly work …relationship between theory and praxis in Paracelsus’s medical treatments. Allison Kavey, an assistant professor at John Jay College, CUNY, is …Bernard Palissey’s porcelain atelier, and Paracelsus’s skeletal remains (which prove his—or her—hermaph- roditism). Newman’s most impressive “…
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Chemcraft Chemical Magic
- 95 Mystifying Magical Demonstrations
- 1940
…Spirit of Alchemy. I bid you stay Hermes, Paracelsus, Alchemists of Old. The others may depart.’’ ; (During this recitation place one of your … …CHEMICAL MAGIC ‘Paracelsus the Great, they power I implore, By the incantation of this Magic Chemcraft Symbol I invoke…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 32 Number 3
- 2014 – 2015 (Fall/Winter)
…recipe for an “Antepileptick Confection of Paracelsus.” The recipe’s cen- tral ingredient consists of the unburied skulls of three men who died …Egyptian Sepulchers. . . . But according to Paracelsus it is the flesh of a Man, that perishes by a violent death, and kept for some time in the …herbs [and] trees are found in the mumia.” Paracelsus’s mumia was not the foreign kind but the healing power of the human body, which he believed…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 2
- 2005 (Summer)
…with the iatrochemist and religious reformer Paracelsus von Hohenheim, whose diatribes against the learning of the schoolmen under- pinned his own …alchemy than to ge- ometry and arithmetic. Paracelsus, in contrast to Diirer, was practically innu- merate if his writings are a guide, and based …alchemy. Palissy, unlike either Diirer or Paracelsus, was an avowed apostate from alchemy who beheld the art with that peculiar hatred felt for…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 13 Number 1
- 1995 (Winter)
…response to our notice of the 500th birthday of Paracelsus, Roald Hoffmann of Cornell sent us a nine- part poem, With Paracelsus at the Chelsmore, …Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim called Paracelsus, Master Magician of medi- cine, science, alchemy and theology, pugnacious and rough and …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 30 Number 1
- 2012 (Spring)
…Davy, Torricelli, Lavoisier, Pasteur, and Paracelsus (the ear- liest of the chemical heroes). The comic-book writers often emphasized a scientist …paintings re- lated to the stories of Pasteur and Paracelsus. The next, from the 1962 Curie issue of Mujeres Célebres, advertises superhero comic books…
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A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery from the Time of the Greeks to the Present Day
- For the Use of Schools and Young Persons
- 1894
… …Copernicus Paracelsus . Vesalius Fallopius Eustachius . Gesner Cesalpinus Baptiste Porta Gilbert Tycho Brahe Galileo …15.77, Paracelsus was at one time Professor of Physic and Sur- gery at Basle, but he gave up his professorship…
- Author Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton), 1840-1929
- Publisher E. Standford
- Subject Science--Study and teaching, Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton), 1840-1929, Historians of science, Women in science, Science, Medieval, Science, Ancient, Science--Study and teaching (Elementary), Natural history
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 4
- 2005 (Winter)
…PLUS = ¢ The Columbia Dry Cell Landmark; = Paracelsus Demystified; z the Chemical Dateline AND MUCH MORE 7 …topics, including studies of the ever-bizarre Paracelsus and his influential followers the Paracelsians; the 17th-century chymist-entrepreneur Johann…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 1
- 2005 (Spring)
…imagery developed by the 16th-century physician Paracelsus for 20th-century chemical achievements. Bud outlined the public challenges to the wonder …Medicine 78 (2004), 767-803. Crone, Hugh. Paracelsus: The Man Who Defted Medicine. Melbourne: Albarello Press, 2004. Debus, Allen G. Alchemy …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 17 Number 2
- 1999 (Summer)
…Library. The display highlighted a 1658 copy of Paracelsus’ Opera omnia: medico-chemico-chirurgica, tribus voluminibus comprehensa and images from …had its intellectual roots in the work of Paracelsus and Johannes Baptista van Helmont and their follow- A drug from Basil Achilladelis’s Wave…
