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Effigies Paracelsi Medici Celeberrimi
- Undated
…An engraving of Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus (born Theophrastus von Hohenheim) wearing a small medal around his…
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Paracelse
- After 1800 – before 1840
…This profile 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 … medical practice. Viewed from his left side, this portrait shows Paracelsus as a man of advanced years, with tonsure-like balding and a thoughtful…
- Artist Tardieu, Ambroise, 1788-1841
- Subject Alchemists, Paracelsus, 1493-1541
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Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus
- 1567
…physician and alchemist Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus—better known as Paracelsus—appeared as the frontispiece to a posthumous 1567 edition of his …weitberhuemeten Herrn D. Avreoli Theophrasti von Hohenhaim, Paracelsi genandt. Paracelsus is shown as a man of advanced years with a balding head and a thoughtful …, perhaps to show two different ideas of Paracelsus' appearance.…
- Subject Alchemists, Elixir of life, Paracelsus, 1493-1541
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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
…medical alchemy (a discipline associated in the sixteenth century with Paracelsus), the Testamentum was one of the first texts to develop the idea …
- 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
…interested in Robert Fludd, for instance. I had been interested in Paracelsus earlier, but Pagel’s work was especially interesting to me. …remain convinced it’s true, that just as important, at the time, was Paracelsus, who said that, “If you’re going to look at the world, you’ve got …introduction by A.J. Andrade and J. Simôes Redinha, pp. 5-9; Debus, "Paracelsus After 500 Years: Paracelsus and His Significance for Medical Science…
- 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)
…Classroom Reviews Sustainable Futures School Days Getting the Lead Out Paracelsus, Healer of the German Reformation Chemistry at the Whipple Books … …[BOOK REVIEW] Paracelsus, Healer of the German Reformation By Jole Shackelford The Protestant…
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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 …, born at Brussels in 15.77, Paracelsus was at one time Professor of Physic and Sur- gery at Basle, but he…
- 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 2
- 2005 (Summer)
…artisanal epistemology with the iatrochemist and religious reformer Paracelsus von Hohenheim, whose diatribes against the learning of the schoolmen …work of nuanced his- torical analysis. Although Smith treats Diirer, Paracelsus, Palissy, and Glauber as representatives of an alchemically tinged …tech- niques borrowed from alchemy. Palissy, unlike either Diirer or Paracelsus, was an avowed apostate from alchemy who beheld the art with that…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 3
- 2005 (Fall)
…discovery in the chemical industries, to biographies of Mendeleev and Paracelsus. Institute exhibits and programs will showcase, whenever pos- sible …Dane T. Daniel is continuing to reassess the natural philosophy of Paracelsus (1493/4—1541) in the light of the Swiss-German iconoclast’s biblical … will also explore the relationship between theory and praxis in Paracelsus’s medical treatments. Allison Kavey, an assistant professor at John…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 13 Number 1
- 1995 (Winter)
…Moseley poem and in response to our notice of the 500th birthday of Paracelsus, Roald Hoffmann of Cornell sent us a nine- part poem, With Paracelsus …begins: Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim called Paracelsus, Master Magician of medi- cine, science, alchemy and theology, pugnacious…
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Elements of Metallurgy for Dental Students
- Circa 1923 – 1924
…considerable dctail by the alchemists and by the latrochemists, of whom Paracelsus was the leader, who were interested in the use of chemical substances …shrouded in doubt. It was first confused with antimony and with ting Paracelsus knew of the metal and made mention of it as a sem-~ metal. The first …and the later alchemists who classed it among the vitriols. It was Paracelsus, however, however, who showed the error in such classification. The…
- Author Brady, St. Elmo, 1884-1966
- Publisher Edwards Brothers Publishers
- Subject Lockett, Robert L., Brady, St. Elmo, 1884-1966, Fisk University, Howard University, Chemists, Chemistry teachers, Chemistry--Study and teaching, African American chemists, Scientists, Black, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Dental chemistry, Metallurgy
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 13 Number 2
- 1996 (Summer)
…sion shows have featured male chemi- cal scientists? Treatments of Paracelsus, Paul Ehrlich, James Watson, and Francis Crick—and recently Robert …Reprint of Through Alchemy to Chemistry (1961). Volker Zimmermann. Paracelsus: Das Werk, die Rezeption. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995. …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 20 Number 4
- 2002 (Winter)
…Endeavour 26:2 (June 2002), 55-59. Yohei Kikuchihara. “A Biography of Paracelsus: Problems about His Works and Their Interwo- ven “Text?” Kagakushi …Biological and Biomed- ical Sciences 33C (2002), 79-131. Charles Webster. “Paracelsus, Paracelsianism, and the Secularization of the Worldview.” Science…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 17 Number 1
- 1999 (Spring)
…a route to knowledge of nature. The chemical and medical reformer Paracelsus articulated a method that included the experience of artisans as …scholastics, who elevated theory at the expense of practice (techné), Paracelsus instead thought that theory was to be gained from the study of nature…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 17 Number 2
- 1999 (Summer)
…legendary Chemists’ Club Library. The display highlighted a 1658 copy of Paracelsus’ Opera omnia: medico-chemico-chirurgica, tribus voluminibus comprehensa …out that bio- chemistry had its intellectual roots in the work of Paracelsus and Johannes Baptista van Helmont and their follow- A drug from Basil…
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Chemcraft Chemical Magic
- 95 Mystifying Magical Demonstrations
- 1940
…from out your number the Spirit of Alchemy. I bid you stay Hermes, Paracelsus, Alchemists of Old. The others may depart.’’ ; (During this recitation … …CHEMICAL MAGIC ‘Paracelsus the Great, they power I implore, By the incantation of this Magic…
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Chemists and Their Wonders: The Story of the Application of Chemistry to Various Arts and Manufactures
- Circa 1896
… truth of the affinity of various sub- stances. Raymond Lully and Paracelsus were also great alchemists ; the latter, a Swiss, or German-Swiss …anything?” asked flippant Phil. “Oh, verily yes ; especially after Paracelsus. Then the distinction between earnest workers and visionary mystics…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 24 Number 1
- 2006 (Spring)
…, or Paracelsus (1493/4-1541), continues to perplex us. First, there is the mystification …- created seeds that lend form to any given substance.” Paracelsus’s genuine a) … Further Reading Daniel, Dane Thor. “Invisible Wombs: Rethinking Paracelsus’s Concept of Body and Matter.” Ambix July 2006), forthcoming. . “Paracelsus…
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Distillations, Volume 4 Number 2
- 2018
…documented by sur- geon Hua To. 1527 Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus creates an opium-based concoction and calls it laudanum; the name…
- Publisher Science History Institute
- Subject Science History Institute, Opioids, Opioid abuse, Digestion, Gastrointestinal system
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Distillations, Volume 3 Number 3
- 2017 (Fall)
…relationship of nature and the cosmos to humankind. The Swiss physician Paracelsus (1493— 1541) proposed that natural processes mirror those that could…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 14 Number 1
- 1996 (Winter)
…Academy of Sciences,1994. Joachim Telle, ed. Parerga Paracelsica: Paracelsus in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 19 Number 3
- 2001 (Fall)
…Allen Debus discusses the chemical philosophy of the followers of Paracelsus and van Helmont as it affected medicine. Here the chemists’ intro…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 21 Number 3
- 2003 (Fall)
…as dyeing, mining, smelting, and metalworking. After a visit with Paracelsus and iatrochemistry, the book makes a de- tour through the beginnings…