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A portrait of the sixteenth-century Swiss physician and alchemist evaluates the myths attributed to his character and his contentious relationship with the medical establishment and universities of his time, in an account that traces his journeys across Europe and his achievements in light of period intellectual, political, and religious factors.
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Philip Ball is the author of Life’s Matrix (FSG, 2000), Bright Earth (FSG, 2002), and Critical Mass (FSG, 2004), which won the Aventis Science Book Prize in 2005.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. First Edition, 1st Printing. Gilt embossed bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/Fine w/a whisper of rubs to corner tips. Intellectual history of the 16th century via the biography genre from British science writer Philip Ball (1962 -) celebrated for The Critical Mass (2004, Aventis Science Book Prize). In this book Ball deftly brings to life the intellectually rich & fertile times, albeit beset w/social discord, of the Renaissance via his colorful subject --- Switzerland born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541), who referred to himself as Paracelsus. Through his life we see the "intellectual ferment" leading to a new age of science & rationalism. Legend in his own times, he was an enemy of the medical establishment, a scourge of the universities, an alchemist, an army surgeon & radical theologian (contemporary of Luther), all the while many believed his travels were astride a magical white horse w/the elixir of life on hand. His name was linked with that of Faust, who did indeed bargain with the Devil. Exploring the intellectual, political & religious undercurrents of the16th century, Ball reveals how doctors practiced, how people traveled, how wars were fought; how Paracelsus was a product of his age of change & strife, of renaissance & reformation, and how, through the very attacks from established, contemporary conservatives & traditionalists on his ideas, elucidates the rise of the age of science & rationalism. 436 pgs in 20 chapters. Seller Inventory # 020447